Halloween Candy Jar - A Quick & Easy Craft!!
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Dell
With Halloween fast approaching the stores are now filled with candy, costumes and decorations! And although I don’t have little ones around the house now, I still like to make special treats for favorite little neighbors! These Halloween candy jars are super quick and easy!
I love to save glass jars of all shapes and sizes. There are a million uses for them too! For this project I used 4 ounce pimento jars and garlic jars. These are great because they usually don’t have a label on the side or top making them very easy to clean. No scraping or soaking. I wash them out well and run them through the dishwasher on an extra hot wash cycle and the smells usually come right out. (especially the garlic) Sometimes I soak them in dish liquid and hot water prior to the dishwasher cycle for extra precaution.
I cleaned the lids and jars and I painted the lids with orange Rustoleum spray paint in a gloss finish called Real Orange.
As those were drying I painted some small wooden knobs black in a satin finish. (also by Rustoluem).
Here are the exact spraypaints I used!
I allowed the lids and knobs to dry for several hours and then glued a knob to the top of each lid. Black and orange, the perfect Halloween color combination! I filled the jars with candy corn. One 11 ounce bag filled three jars. (I ate the few leftovers ;) )
I think these turned out really cute! They are glass and therefore breakable, so caution is key. I think it’s important for children to learn how to take care of things and be careful with breakables. What better way to teach them than with a cute little candy jar just for them?
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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You are so sweet, Miriam! Thank you!
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Sweet idea! Time to start saving jars. Thanks for posting.
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