Yummy Mummies: Have lots of fun with your toddler creating these great party favours. They look very good as Halloween table decorations filled with all sorts of goodies.
What you need:
- Toilet tissue tube
- White paper
- Clear packing tape
- Roll of 2-inch-wide medical gauze (if you can get), or use good old ordinary toilet paper instead and draw the eyes on.
- Craft glue
- Googly eyes
- Small candies and sweets
- Gummy worms can crawl out of them too!
What to do:
- For each holder, trace one end of the empty tissue tube onto a piece of white paper, then cut out the circle, making it slightly smaller than your trace line. (If you fold the paper into a few layers, you can cut out several circles at once.)
- Cut the tube in half (you can make 2 holders per tube) and tape the paper circle to the bottom of each half.
- Wrap a 2- to 2 1/2-foot (60cm – 75cm)strip of gauze around the tube, first taping the beginning of the gauze to the tube.
- Gently stretch and twist the gauze as you wrap it to give it some dimension.
- When you’ve covered the tube, cut the gauze and tuck the end under a nearby layer.
- Finally, glue on googly eyes (or use the self-adhesive kind), then fill the mummie with candy treats.
Halloween Party Favours
I am a preschool and primary school teacher and mum to 3 children. I have been involved in education since 1997 and have trained in a variety of educational specialist areas. It is with this expertise that I write articles to help parents and educators provide quality learning experiences for the children in their care.
