Paper Plate Candy Corn Pennants!
With temperatures still ranging from the mid 70s to the mid 90s – it’s sometimes hard for this Texan (who was raised on the East Coast) to believe it’s almost Halloween (or even fall). But it is – and with my parents in this past weekend for a quick visit, we broke out a fun craft for the boys to help us with to decorate the house a little bit – paper plate candy corn pennants!
These are really, really easy. So easy in fact, that even an OCD momma who hates PlayDoh with a fiery passion got through it without wanting to pull her (or her kids’) hair out. Also, it cost me less than $5.00 for the whole project by buying all the supplies at Walmart – easy peasy.
What you need:
Cheap-o paper plates
Paint (orange, yellow, white) – we used basic craft paint, but anything will do
Paintbrushes
Hole punch
Scissors
Ribbon (I chose black, but anything with work)
To begin, I would have swore on a stack of puppies that candy corn were colored in an orange-yellow-white pattern … but I would have been wrong. So when you start to paint, know that “legit” candy corns are in a yellow-orange-white pattern.
I painted first and the kiddos watched and copied – you’re looking for a bull’s-eye-like affect on the plates.
Paint as many as they want to – plates and paint are cheap and these are fun to hang everywhere! Also, don’t be too worried about perfect circles or splotching – having them all a little different looking gives them character. Once all your plates are painted (or your kiddos are over painting – whichever comes first), lay them out and let them dry.
Once dry, cut the plates into fourths, so you have triangle candies.
Now, punch holes with your hole punch at the top – ours were about two inches apart so we would have enough of the black ribbon showing.
Make them as short or long as you’d like – overlapping strings can be fun! We’ve got them hanging above the fireplace, in the kitchen, and I’m even taking some to work for my office. I hope everyone enjoys making these as much as we did!
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