Make some cute Halloween Spooky Hands and impress all the little goblins this year.
Whether you want to make treat-or-treat giveaways or need cute Halloween favors, Halloween Spooky Hands work out great. These scary popcorn filled gloves are easy to make, inexpensive and always put a smile on the faces of kids and adults alike.
Popcorn Scary Hand Supplies
- Plastic gloves
- Candy corn
- Popped popcorn
- Ribbon
- Spider Rings (optional)
Directions
First, gather all your supplies.
- For the plastic gloves, you need clear gloves (non latex) and not powdered. These are food service type gloves or like those that come in the home hair dye kits. These bare- bones (excuse the Halloween pun) gloves are the very low cost gloves. You can get these at some pharmacies and some grocery stores. Most fast food restaurants use these, and you can sometimes buy them (or someone will take pity and just give you some).
- Candy corn is usually easy to find during the Halloween season. Most grocery stores carry it. Country stores typically have these candies year round.
- The popcorn can be home popped (very inexpensive). Microwave popcorn is fine. And, there’s always the option to buy bags of popped corn in the chip isle of the grocery.
- Ribbon from the fabric store is nice but more expensive. Gift wrapping ribbon works just fine and looks pretty. Orange and black go with the Halloween theme. Another option is yarn.
Then, assemble the Halloween Hands.
- Take the gloves and put a candy corn in the tip of each finger. These are the fingernails. Even if they shift around, they still look like fingernails.
- Next, put popcorn in the gloves. This is the hardest part. Take your time. Slide popcorn into each finger space with easy pushes. You do not want to crush the popcorn. Continue to fill until you have the gloves filled with about an inch of space at the top of the glove.
- If you use the optional spider rings which can be purchased online at stores like Oriental Trading Company, put a ring on one finger and then use small popcorn kernels in that finger first.
- Pull the top of the glove together and tie off with ribbon.
This Halloween project is simple enough for pre-school children to make. It just takes a little time to fill the hands with popcorn, but it’s not hard at all.
Halloween Scary Hands are cute and fun and also make a good snack.
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Cyndi Allison - Southern born and fed, Cyndi Allison is a college lecturer and newspaper advisor as well as being a freelance writer. She writes on ...
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