How to Create a Homemade Halloween Treat Bag

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Create a Homemade Halloween Treat Bag

Create a homemade Halloween treat bag for your special little visitors using every day lunch bags from your pantry, will be the hit of the neighborhood. Use Microsoft Word to add spooky Halloween decorations and print with a color or black and white printer.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Brown paper lunch bags
Clip Art
Computer
Halloween treats
Microsoft Word
Printer

Step 1

Start by ironing the bags flat, they may be wrinkly when you take them out of the plastic bag. A cold iron on a cutting board works well, or anything to help flatten them. This way you have a nice smooth surface to print your graphics.
Step 2

Create a blank document that is 5 x 10 ¾, set margins to; Top 2.5, Bottom 4.0 and Right and Left to .50. This will give you a space of about 4 ¼ by 4 ¼ to personalize the bag.
Step 3

Add Halloween clip art including ghosts, witches and pumpkins. Use WordArt to add the child's name. Use Callouts to add words and phrases to your graphics. A bolder lined font works well for names and words.
Step 4

Take a regular piece of printer paper, draw the bag measurements onto the paper and cut to the size of your bag. Practice printing on plain paper, until you have everything lined up. You may need to adjust the paper thickness on the printer to an "envelope" or "cardstock" to allow more space for the bag to flow through the printer. Apply a piece of blue painters tape to hold bag flap securely and another piece to the top where the bag opens, then print the bag.
Step 5

Remove the tape and fill with Halloween treats