Save your 1-Gallon plastic ice-cream buckets, let the kids decorate them with markers or with adult help paint on eyes with glow in the dark paint! You can go all out on these - decoupage magazine pictures or fabric scraps or paper! These are truly fun to make! We actually decorated a few and placed our candy in them to hand out! It was a hit.
Another creative way, and less expensive route (and holds a lot of candy) it the old pillowcase trick from when we were children! Just take a white pillow case (or any light color) and decorate it for the holiday. Use puffy paints, or acrylic paints and go to town. You can glue on google eyes on a ghost or goblin, or you can make it "pretty" for a girl by using black and orange ribbons to "tie" around the black cats neck. Use your imagination, but most of all make it fun. These memories will last your children - they don't remember the FRUGAL you, they remember the time you spent with them, and how much fun the projects are!
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