DIY Upcycled Tape Rolls Halloween Gift Baskets
These Upcycled Tape Rolls Halloween Gift Baskets are a perfect craft to make on a family afternoon. It’s super easy to make, fun and most of all will teach our kids the importance of reusing and upcycling! These baskets will rock your Halloween night!
Equipment
- Hot Glue tool and glue sticks
- scissors
Ingredients
- 5 Tape rolls – those from large masking tapes rolls or packing tape.
- Cardboard
- Spray paint Halloween colors: orange, black, white and green – you can replace this with acrylic paint.
- Googly eyes
- Ribbon
- Color papers {again Halloween colors}
- Transparent plastic.
- Fuzzy wires or pipe cleaners.
- Black permanent marker.
- Corkboard Pins
- Black cardstock
- White crayon or marker
- Favorite candies – all pre-packed. Since these baskets are painted you don’t want to put candies without their packaging.
Instructions
- First of all, I removed dust from the tape rolls and cut some cardboard circles the same diameter as the rolls and leave them aside. Make as many circles as the number of rolls you are going to use.
- Paint the rolls with your favorite colors. I applied 2 coats of paint each.
- Let the paint dry for several hours to get rid of the smell. Although I used waterbase spray paint almost no scent, it’s better be safe. If you used acrylic paint, make sure it’s completely dry before moving on.
- Apply hot glue to the edges of one end of the roll.
- stick the cardboard circles you had previously made.
- Proceed to draw the details of each character you are going to create. We made Ghosts, Jack-o-Lantern, Spider, Bats, and Frankenstein.
- for Jack-o-Lantern I draw triangles for the eyes and nose and just some zig-zag{ish} for the mouth.
- 7-8. Started some stripes all around the role to give the idea of a pumpkin.
- 9-10. Using hot glue I hide the cardboard with the plush iron wires.
- I folded in half over and over the color papers until I got a strip about 2 inches.
- 12-13. Cut thin strips to create spaghetti with the papers LOL.
- Mixing the colors I filled each cup with strips of paper. In green cups I used orange paper, in ghosts I used green paper and so on.
- With my black marker, I painted the visible edge of the cup to make it look better.
- For the other cups we did the same process, but with different details. Like for Ghosts we just draw some handy black circles.
- For Frankenstein, we draw the hair, scars and mouth then glued the funny eyes; we cut the metal part of the pins and used it as the neck bolts.
- For the bat, we cut a couple of wings with details using white crayons. We fold the inner side and glued it to each side of the cup. Again with white crayon we drew the mouth with fangs and glued funny eyes.
- For Spider, we used a bunch of plastic eyes and for the legs, we used black plush iron wires.
- Then we filled the cups with treats and wrapped them with transparent plastic tied with Halloween ribbons!
- That’s it! Start giving these cuties away!