Last year I sewed up this simple trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. Mr. Carlee and I sketched the ghost together. Since it was such an easy and cute project, I want to share the pattern. I intended to post it at the beginning of October, but somehow October has gotten away from me. Did that happen to you too?
In any case, I have the pattern all digitized for you now. I don't have a full picture tutorial, but I promise it's so easy to put together.
You Will Need:
- Little Ghost Trick-or-Treat Bag Pattern
- 1/4 yard white fleece or felt
- scraps of black fleece or felt
- 14 inches of one inch wide grosgrain ribbon (I doubled up on my ribbon to make it a little stronger, so if you decided to do this, you will need 28 inches of ribbon)
- thread, scissors and sewing machine.
Step 1: Cut out pattern and tape together on the dotted line.
Step 2: Cut out 4 main body piece from white fleece or felt, two for the front, and two for the back.
Step 3: Cut out the eyes and mouth from black fleece or felt.
Step 4: Sew eyes and face to one of the ghost pieces.
Step 5: Pin the two front pieces together and the two back pieces together. Edge stitch around each (you will end up with one front piece and one back piece that is two layers thick).
Step 6: Making sure to leave a large opening on the top of the ghost's head, edge stitch around the sides, arms, and bottom of the body.
Step 7: Fold your ribbon in half lenghwise (if you are doubling up on your ribbon) and sew along the edges. Sew the ribbon on each side of the opening.
Step 8: Take Trick-or-Treating and fill with candy!
The finished bag will be 10.5 inches tall, and 7 inches wide. Obviously this is a pretty small Trick-or-Treating bag, but I think it's perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, or even for my Kindergartener. My philosophy is that a smaller bag means that you fill it faster and then you don't have tons of candy to worry about later.
I actually have a few more Halloween posts that I am trying to put together, so you may hear more from me over the next few days. But maybe not too, since the weather man is telling me that we are having another crazy pre-Halloween storm this year.
P.S. Do you like our Jack-o-Lanterns this year? The boys wanted scary ones. The small pumpkin that is being eaten by the bigger one actually had a face carved too, but I came outside yesterday to find a squirrel had just eaten it's face off. All those pumpkin shreds on the ground are bits of his face. Creepy! Kid 2 was so scared by this that we turned the pumpkin around so he didn't have to see the missing face.
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