These easy and inexpensive pumpkin pouches make the perfect little goodie bags for a Halloween party! I came across this photograph of Martha Stewart’s (year 2000) Halloween ideas, and I loved them so much I wanted to try making them myself.
To get started you’ll need orange tissue paper, green floral tape, scissors, and whatever tricks or treats you plan to fill your goodie bags with.
I used 20″ x 20″ tissue paper, cut it in half horizontally, then cut it in half again vertically. So after cutting, I had 5″ x 5″ squares. I used 2 pieces of tissue paper for each pumpkin. Depending on what you’re filling it with you may need to use more, but 2 pieces was plenty sturdy enough to hold several pieces of candy.
I used a small ball as a mold to wrap the tissue paper around to help give it a pumpkin shape. If you don’t have little boys and dozens of balls laying around your house, you could wad up a piece of newspaper in the shape of a ball and it will work just as well.
Remove the ball and place small pieces of candy or favors inside. Bring the edges of the paper together to form a stem. Start winding the floral tape around the paper stem, starting from the bottom of the stem and working your way up. My paper stem was too long, so after a few wraps of the floral tape, I snipped off the top of the paper then finished my floral tape stem.
I bought a pack of 8 sheets of tissue paper for $1.99, and had the floral tape on hand, so I was able to make 18 pumpkin pouches for $1.99 plus the price of the treats I used to fill them.
I think I’m going to give these out to the kids on our street for trick or treat, and maybe even send some with Sam for his preschool Halloween party! Do you have anything fun planned for Halloween this year?
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I love this …..
Thanks Karen!!
Very cute! Hope you’ll pin this, too, to our Pinterest board “Your Halloween Creations”!
Thank you Lissa! And I already pinned them to our fantastic Halloween Board! Thanks so much for inviting me to contribute to it!
These treat bags are amazing…the perfect idea for a class fall/Halloween party! I co-host a link party called ‘The Project Stash’ which opens tonight (Wed) at 8:00 EST. I’d love for you to stop by and share this post…it’s so awesome!
Hi Marilyn! Somehow your comment ended up in my spam folder and I just fished it out, so I’ll be a little late to the party but I’ll still head over and link up :). And thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comment!
My kids are grown and most are gone. Too bad I wasn’t creative like you when they were young. I can still make these and hand them out or send with grandkids 😉
These are awesome!
Pinning it!!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Bobbi!! We get a ton of trick or treaters where I live, I don’t think I could hand them out to each kid, but I was going to make them just for the kids on our little cul de sac street for a little something special. They would be perfect for your grandkids!! Thanks for your sweet comment and for pinning!!
These are adorable, Amy! I was thinking too, for the neighbourhood kids or to send to school for their classmates! Love them!
Thank you Kendra!!
oh these are so cute! you have my mind going on what else you could make with the tissue paper now! thanks for sharing these! 🙂
Thanks ladies!! And I was doing the same thing yesterday…tossing around other ideas for using tissue paper 🙂
Amy these are so cute!! I bet it was hard to photograph with the kiddos running around! I can’t wait to make these for Rohrl and all his little buddies!
Thanks Sydney! They were so easy to put together! And you’re actually right about my little darlings making it hard to photograph! That one pumpkin I tore open with the candy sticking out of it…they snatched all the candy while I was in the other room. I came back to an empty pumpkin pouch and two little boys with chocolate faces 🙂
How adorable! I think that I will make these for class favors for by boys!
Thanks Amy! These are perfect for class favors! So glad you stopped by!
These are so cute! They would be so cute for a halloween party. Our son’s school is a “sugar-free zone” which makes me sad mama.
I agree Rachel,, they’d be perfect for a Halloween party! My kids don’t have a no sugar policy yet, but I think you could use stickers and little non-food treats and it would still be fun 🙂
I love how cute and easy these are. My daughter would love helping me make these. I think we’ll be making these and delivering them to neighbors! Thanks for the great idea!
Thanks Aida! We’re making them for our neighbors too :). Love that your daughter is going to help..my little ones like to craft too!
I SO want to make these for my boys and their friends! Thank you for a great idea, that is easy to follow!
~julie (Little Farmstead)
Thanks Julie!! Glad you’re going to make them!
Wow When I first saw the picture and saw the word “easy” I didn’t think it would be as easy as you say until I kept reading down the post!
Haha, I promise they’re really easy and super cute! Thanks for stopping by, Amanda!
That is just adorable! Really nice and easy creation.
Thank you Michal!
Great job ladies!!! Such a cute and fun idea! I Pinned this to our Fall board 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Vicki
Thank you!! And double thanks for pinning! We really appreciate that you always stop by to see what we’re up to!
Too cute! i’m going to have to do this for my students!
Thank you Sami!! These are perfect for a class treat!
These are just too cute! My kids would get a kick out of them:) Thanks for sharing with us at the Teach Me Tuesday Linky Party!
Thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comment, Adrian!
These are adorable! I am pinning this to our party board and featuring these little cuties today! Thanks for sharing at On Display Thursday, come again!
Thank you Leia!! I appreciate it so much!!
So cute and creative! Featuring later today at Sundays at Home!
Thank you so much, Alice!! I really appreciate it!
Thanks for linking up to Pin Worthy Wednesday, I have pinned your post to the Pin Worthy Wednesday Pinterest Board. 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by and for pinning! Hope you’re having a great weekend!