Halloween: Quick Candy Corn Bag
A quick bag upgrade for your taking your child’s costume to school or for treats!
you'll need 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!
