Pumpkin Surprise Favors

While in the bathroom at my parent’s house, I noticed a ton of empty toilet paper tubes…..and inspiration struck! I know, an interesting beginning to a craft story….

Anyway, I remember seeing / making “poppers” – goody favors inside a toilet paper tube, twisted with tissue paper to look like an unopened piece of candy or something. They were always festive and fun….I mean, who doesn’t like to receive a little package of mystery? With Halloween so close I decided we should make “pumpkin”poppers. I headed to Target to find some fun goodies to fill them with (I tried to add more than just sweets). Here’s what I came up with: Halloween fruit snacks, a little pad of halloween paper, a bubble tube, a sheet of fall leaf stickers, and a pumpkin straw (which I really lucked out on finding because the straw itself was GREEN like the stem of a pumpkin – fun and practical!)

I stuffed them into the toilet paper tubes – strategically.

You layer two together and place the toilet paper tube in the middle.

Then gather the napkins up around the straw at the top of the tube.

I tied them with curling ribbon to look like pumpkin vines.

I think they looked cute just like this, but Buga wanted to add some faces so….

I printed out some jack-o-lantern faces onto sticker paper and cut them into strips.

Then I circle-punched the faces out.

Buga wanted to count the number of pumpkins so she lined them up.

Then we stuck them onto our pumpkins.

Pumpkin Perfect.