Candy Corn Halloween Kids Craft

CANDY CORN PAPER PLATE CRAFT – Such a fun kids craft project that uses Basic craft supplies to create a cute Candy corn character. Check out these storybooks about candy corn that you can add to the activity.

SUPPLIES
Paper plates
Tempera Paint
Paintbrush
Pipe Cleaners
White school glue
Sharpie marker

INSTRUCTIONS
Paint the paper plate in a bullseye shape; white in the center, yellow ring around that and
orange on the ridged outer edge of the paper plate. LET DRY

Once paint has dried completely, place another unpainted plate under your painted plate.

Cut plates with scissors into pie shape; 4 cuts = 8 pieces

You will use pipe cleaners for the arms and legs. Yellow for arms and orange for legs.
Bend the orange pipe cleaner in half to make legs.

Place the yellow pipe cleaner across the candy corn shape to make the arms. Cut to desired length.

Use plenty of glue and sandwich the paper plate triangles together to hold the pipe cleaners in place.

DRY Completely and decorate with cute faces.

PLAY!

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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