Halloween: Quick Candy Corn Bag

A quick bag upgrade for your taking your child’s costume to school or for treats!

Materials

• Bag (we used a jute one)
• Felt (yellow, orange & white)
• Fabric glue
• Sewing machine/ thread (optional, you could also hand sew)
• Sewing marker or stick pins.
• Embroidery floss and/or yarn and needle
• Smock
• Paper/pencil or paper/template candy_corn_template

Directions

• Have your child draw out a piece of candy corn on paper or print the provided template.  Cut it out.

• Trace the entire template on a piece of white felt, using a sewing marker.

• Cut off the top portion of the template.

• Trace the template again on orange felt, using a sewing marker.

• Cut off the middle portion of the template.

• Trace the template on yellow felt. Cut out.

• Take all your pieces and put them together to make sure they align, giving them a unifying trim if necessary.  Depending on the type of sewing marker that you used, you may want to flip the felt pieces over to hide any lines.

• Don your smock.

• Glue or sew the orange portion onto the white base.  Glue or sew the yellow portion on top of the orange.  Allow to dry overnight.

• Glue your felt candy corn piece onto your bag and allow to dry overnight.

• Should you like, add a little embroidery and yarn embellishment to the top of the bag (a great way to practise a bit of sewing!)

Purpose

• Developing hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills.
• Making a likeness of something.

Safety Notes

• Use scissors and needles with adult supervision.
• A  sewing machine should be used by an adult or based on your child’s age and abilities with direct supervision and guidance.
• Be sure to wear a smock to protect your clothing from fabric glue!