How to Craft Halloween Candy Wrappers
If you're handing out candy at a Halloween party and want to make the treats more special than the standard offerings, exercise your creativity by designing wrappers featuring holiday designs. Make personalized paper coverings for candy bars, packs of gum, hard candy or bags of treats with customized text, graphics and dimensional embellishments. Tailor the look to the recipients by choosing between candy wrapper designs such as attention-grabbing text, boo-tiful accents or whimsical, wacky monster creations. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Candy bar
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Orange, yellow or black card stock
- Scissors or paper trimmer
- Black or silver gel pen
- Halloween stickers
- Double-sided tape
- Hard candy
- Orange, black or clear cellophane
- Wide ribbon
- Pumpkin die cut
- Glitter glue, self-adhesive gems or markers
- White streamers
- Plastic wiggle eyes
Instructions
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Add a personal message to Halloween candy to welcome guests to your holiday party. Cover a candy bar, for example, by using a ruler and pencil to measure a piece of orange, yellow or black card stock that will completely cover the original wrapper. Cut the paper out with scissors or a paper trimmer, write a note across the front with a black or silver gel pen and add Halloween-themed stickers on each side of the message. Affix the "wrapper" over the candy with double-sided tape.
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Customize an individual piece of hard candy by cutting a square of orange, black or clear cellophane that's 4 inches longer and wider than the treat. Place the candy on one side of the paper, roll it so the candy sits inside the cellophane and twist the ends. Add a Halloween sticker to the center.
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Create themed wrappings for candy bars, packs of gum or packaged treats. Cut a white party streamer so it's long enough to wrap around the candy with slightly overlapped edges. Secure the streamer with pieces of double-sided tape. Separate the wrapping about 1 inch from the top and affix two self-adhesive wiggle eyes to the candy to make the custom candy wrapping look like a mummy.
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Adorn Halloween treats in packages like small bags of pretzels or fruit snacks by cutting a piece of wide ribbon so it's long enough to wrap around the center of the package and tie in a knot. Embellish a pumpkin die cut with glitter glue, self-adhesive gems or markers. Affix the die cut in the middle of the ribbon with double-sided tape, wrap the ribbon around the package and knot it in back.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep the candy wrapped in the original packaging and layer your handmade Halloween candy wrappers over the enclosed treats. Whether you hand out the candy at a party, in class or to children who are trick or treating, parents may not allow their kids to enjoy snacks that you've opened and handled.
If you've only got a short time until Halloween and can't craft Halloween candy wrappers from scratch, use printable candy wrappers that are free to download from the Internet. Use the design you like by clicking on an image that fits the type of candy you wish to cover, outputting it on a color printer, trimming the wrapper from the sheet and affixing it over the original wrapper with double-stick tape.
