Have fun with your kids and make a fun Halloween Craft! This spooky Mummy Bucket is so easy to make and can be filled with your favorite Halloween candies!
When I was a kid my favorite two hours of the entire year happened on the evening of October 31st. Growing up in suburbia had it’s share of fun, but nothing was more fun than spending an evening dressed in a homemade costume racing from house to house begging for candy. Arriving at home after two full hours of running I was exhausted but filled with anticipation. I would pour my pillow case filled with treasures onto the kitchen table and sit in utter amazement. All of these delectable sweets were mine. The trading would begin immediately as my brothers and sister and I would swap candies for our favorites, being sure to create a pile of Mounds and Almond Joy bars for my mom. There aren’t too many candies that I don’t enjoy, but of course I have my favorites. I love Twizzlers, Swedish Fish, Tootsie Rolls and Reese’s Cups. I gave away anything sour and was more than glad to swap out bags of chips for a candy bar. I treasured my candy bars and had a special place in my heart for those households that passed out full size bars. There was one house in the neighborhood that could not be missed and often we stopped by more than once in an evening. The man of the house worked for Hostess and they always had a Hostess character in their yard to greet us. Every year we would meet a new character and get a different product. I’ll never forget the year they passed out tiny loaves of Wonder Bread. I went back three times. We had so much fun making cute little sandwiches on that bread.
Now many years later our house is the place to be on Beggars’ Night. Our house is always decorated and we pass out really fun candy like Pez, Halloween Peeps, or Nerds Ropes. Someday an adult will think back on Beggars’ Night and fondly remember the lady on the block that always passed out the coolest candy and that lady they will be remembering will be me.
Last year we hosted our kid’s Halloween party and many of the neighborhood kids attended. They all created a mummy bucket to use on Beggars’ Night. It was so fun to see them come to my door and shout “Trick or Treat” while holding out their crafty pail to receive their treat.
This project is so simple that with a little guidance even very young kids can create their own bucket. If you decide to do this project this Halloween, try to buy your buckets at the end of the summer. They go on clearance then and you will have a lot of pails to choose from.
Mummy Buckets
Supplies:
1 beach pail (any color)
1 roll of gauze (3″ x 4.5′)*
2 wiggly eyes
glue (or double stick tape)
*I purchased these short rolls of gauze at the dollar store.
Squeeze glue out in three lines down one side of your bucket (or put one or two strips of double stick tape down one side of your bucket). Stick one end of gauze over glue and begin to wrap gauze around the bucket.
Wrap the gauze up and around the bucket gently pressing it into the glue. The end of the gauze will most likely not end up over the glue or tape, so glue or tape it down. Pull two layers of gauze apart a few inches down from the top of the bucket.
Glue or tape two wiggly eyes onto the bucket. I like to use two different size eyes to make the mummy look a little silly. Each of these mummy buckets will cost about $2.
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Hi, I find this great idea through pinterest. I have made cup mummies with my son and I am going to share on my blog
http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtails-jaime.blogspot.com/ I am going to link to your blog for the inspiration to make such a cute treat cup. Thanks for sharing and your site is amazing, Jaime@FSPDT
Sometimes when we'd go trick or treating we'd get 3 pillowcases full of candy.. those were the days!
I love inside out reese's peanut butter cups.
My favorite candy is Hershey's Symphony Bars.
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My favorite memory is when I dressed up as a queen and had this beautiful red velvet robe that my mother customized for me. Of course, I had a crown. I felt so regal. Email: yona(at)pricelesswriters.com
My favorite candy is Kit Kats (crispy and crunchy) and Twix (ooey and gooey). Email: yona(at)pricelesswriters.com
My favorite memory is my grandma having a big party for all her grandchildren when I was 9. We went Trick R Treating first and then came back to fine the inside of her house filled with string to look like a spider web. At the end of each string were little bags of candy. It was so much fun twisting and turning our way through the string web!
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My favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter cups!
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My favorite candy is heath bars.
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favorite candy is Reese's PB cups
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my favorite memory is the first time I got to go trick or treating without my parents going along and went with about 6 friends we had a blast
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my favorite candy is caramel
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My favorite candy is Snickers!
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My memory is that I had an old witch mask and wore it quite a few years.
I follow as kngmckellar and my favorite candy is Hershey's Chocolate Bars.
I love heath bars. Since childhood, but my teeth can't tolerate them at my age now.
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The recipe sounds great. Can't wait to try it myself.
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We went trick n treat at the mall to get us candy when we were little, but they don't have that any more. Thanks.
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I love Zero candy bars.
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My favorite candy is Zero candybar.
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I follow and my favorite candy is Skittles… actually anything fruity and chewy!
That's a cool idea for the Twilight Vampire Quesadilla's. My daughter and her friends would love it for their party.
Halloween was fun when I was a kid. You didn't have to worry about the crazies that are out there not. But one of the last years I went, I took my nieces. They were 8 years younger than me. Well someone ended up grabbing our bag and running down the street with it.
Anything milk chocolate is my favorite!!!
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WOW! I scrolled down the page looking for the picture, LOL! Once i saw you talking about stencils I realized I'd passed it by thinking it was just a plate!!
I think that this looks like an awful lot of work – I hope that whoever makes it has people over who would be thrilled by it!!
and black teeth after eating it?! LOL! Guess that will show the moms who brushes and who doesn't!
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We always loved the costumes my mother would put together for us – typical girlie costumes, but they were cute, and much better looking than store-bought!
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My favorite candy is Jelly Belly jelly beans!
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i like gummy worms
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One year my Dad was dressed in a custume sitting on a chair on a porch and he looked when trick or treater would come to our door he would suddenly wake up and scare them.
My favorite candy is Snickers
love my butterfingers
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favorite candy is maltesers malt balls–Mmmmm yummy
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My mom always made super cool Halloween costumes for us and it was great because it wasn't just like what everyone else had it was unique. One year she made a matching costume for her and me, it was a dragon and it was such a great costume everyone was talking about it for weeks afterward. I definitely felt super cool! 🙂
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My favorite candy would have to be peanut MMs. They're the perfect candy and I tell myself that since the nuts have protein its a legitimate snack option!
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I love Dark Chocolate Reeses Peanut Butter Cups!
My favorite is reese's peanut butter cups.
One of my favorite memories is the only Halloween I can remember spending with my father since he passed away when I was 7. We went to the haunted house in our town and my Dad took me through. Its one of my most vivid memories of him.
I love milky way bars. Yum!
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my fav is pretzel M&M's.
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I love Snickers the most, thanks!
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Tara,
What a lousy way to spend Halloween. I hope your siblings or friends shared their candy with you.
I can vividly remember running ahead of the pack in order to be the first to knock on the door. I tripped on the curb and landed on a large cactus. OUCH! I had to go back home and let my Grandmama pick out the thorns. Trick-Or-Treating was over before it started.
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My favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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I have always loved Snickers Bars since I was a kid.
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I am a follower! My favorite candy is a Caramel Bull's Eye!
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whether I'm north, east,
west or south,
is usually the kind
I have in my MOUTH…
But since I have to narrow
my choice down to one—
DARK CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES
are always second to none!
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My favorite memory is when I was in junior high, my friend had a Halloween party and we thought we were the coolest kids ever. But when we went trick-or-treating, a creepy guy dressed as Batman kept following us so we got scared and ran home. Needless to say, we stayed inside the rest of the night! Random but funny memory : )
My favorite candy is Sno Caps – there's just something about those little guys that gets me every time! : )
My favorite memory is taking my little cousin out and getting some candy too.
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My favorite candy is Peanut Butter M&Ms.
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My favorite candy is sour patch! I love sour candies!
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I'll never forget the year that my little sister's bag got a hole in it and I walked behind her picking up all her candy. We used pillow cases after that.
I love Milky Ways.
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the pail idea is so cute……i will always remember the little ole lady that handed out homemade popcorn balls..of course we cant forget the old gentleman with the pastel tupperware glass filled with coins..letting each child reach in and get as much as u can at once..and the lady who makes the handmade drawstring bags..made from scrap material filled with gum and candy..amazing what one remembers..
A favorite Halloween night memory is when I was about 5 years old and my mother dressed me up as Pocahontas!
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I remember when I went trick or treating our group was a little late and couldn't get any candy from the candy-giving malls nearby…so we walked from house to house in the wind until 10 to get yummy treats 🙂
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My favorite candy has to be Hershey's milk or almond chocolate bar.
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, and Kit Kats are my absolute favorites.
I follow you blog publicly with google friend connect. My favorite candy is peanut M&M's.
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I've always loooved milkyways, and those little strawberry hard candies that look like strawberries on the outside.. you know the ones.
Dark chocolate is my fave!
I love Rolos! They are my fav!
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My favorite candy is anything in Milk Chocolate.
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My favorite candy is Werther´s Original.
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I think the recipe looks great, cant wait to try it!
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Sorry!! DIdnt sign my name to the above one – about freddy 🙂
beggars night memory –
My mother taking us to a haunted house when i was four – she had to carry me and tripped over something and we both ended up on the ground with FREDDY behind us, not so fun 😛
Believe it or not my fave candy is the ghost 'peeps' 😉
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A favorite Halloween night memory is when I was about 5 years old and my mother sewed me a cool pink ballerina costume with a net tutu–still remember twirling around in our yard waiting for it to get dark!
My favorite candy is Reese's peanut butter cups (original–tried the dark chocolate and didn't like them at all).
My favorite memory is scaring trick or treaters by sitting in a scarecrow costume next to the door when they came by for candy
My favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
It is so fun to see the variety of candy people have listed as their favorite. I so love to hear your stories about Beggars' Night (Trick or Treat). Here's one of my memories.
One year it was so cold on Beggars' Night and I was dressed as a Baton Twirler. I wore a leotard with a very short skirt, had my hair done up and wore more makeup than any 8 year old should wear. I proudly carried my baton, twirling for candy at each door. We started out the evening so excited that we barely noticed the cold but it didn't take long before I had to run home to get some long pants before going off to beg at more doors. The evening air grew increasingly colder as we ran from house to house, so when we reached our backyard neighbor's house, I ran home for a coat. As the night wore on my baton began to stick to my hands, so I left it at a friend's house. At that point we still had lots of houses to get to and unfortunately I just looked like an 8 year old who had raided her mom's makeup drawer. I got lot's of comments, but still got candy and that is all that mattered to me.
Must be a regional thing, but I had never heard of Halloween being called Beggars Night–it fits though. My memories are not terribly specific, but because my childhood was a LONG time ago, it was before all the fears of homemade goodies, dangers put into fruit and candy, etc. I lived in a very small town and we knew virtually every house we would go to–one of my favorites was that of one of my classmates. Her mother made the BEST divinity–but my mother loved it too, so the 3 of us kids had to divide up that particular house loot with her!
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I love any type of hard candy. Helps keep my mouth moist during radiation treatments.
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I have a lot of great memories, I remember one year it was too cold out, snow was everywhere, so my mom took us to the Mall to Trick R Treat. I got some really cool stuff there like baseball cards, I was a ballerina that year.
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My favorite candy is Almond Joy, I love coconut and chocolate! It's so good!
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My favorite candy is my mom's peanut butter fudge-so good!
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To much to choose from. I guess I would pick snickers and 100 grand.
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I love Snickers bars!
I remember one year I gave out full-size candy bars…Abba Zabbas. One of the neighborhood kids came to my door and was super excited…so she went home and changed into a different costume to try to trick me into giving her another one! lol I gave her another one just for effort and enthusiasm (and for making me laugh!)
My favorite candy is Goo Goo Clusters
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mmmm yummy giveaway. I love halloween. my favorite candy though? this is hard. I do love the cookies and creme hershey bars though!
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i have memories of those houses you could not miss. my neighborhood never did much, but we'd go to other places and it was a lot of fun. i know one street had a lot of their neighbors at ONE house so you'd go in a circle in the yard and grab from each bucket.
-lauren
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I'm a follower. I love kit kats!!
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Well, an easier question might be what's NOT my favorite candy? LOL. I love Reeses Pieces, Kit Kats, and all things Cadbury. =)
My favorite candy is Twix!
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Without question, my favorite candy is Reese's Pieces. I am a GFC follower.
My fave is candy corn
it all depends on my mood… but 1 common ingredient seems to be chocolate! (peanut butter cups, milky way, and can't leave out a big, thick plain bar of chocolate…)
It's a tossup between M&Ms and candy corn. I don't dare keep either one around. 😉
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I like Sixlets!
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My favorite candy ever is reeses peanut butter cups.
Twix bars are my favorite candy!
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Beggars nite memory: There is a neigborhood in our area that has everyone outside giving out apple cider and doing haunted houses because everyone wanted to joib in the festivities but didn't have a lot of money
My favorite memeory is making a M&M costume out of fabric I found in our attic.
My favorite candy is heath toffe bars
My favorite candy is Rolo's.
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My favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
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My favorite memory is making a homemade spaghetti costume out of shredded paper at the last minute because my mom wouldn't let me trick-or-treat without a costume.
My favorite candy is Milky Way bars.
Your Twilight Quesadilla rocks. This is so neat looking and really doesn't sound to complicated.
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A couple of years ago, I was walking with my kids and this guy, dressed up as a zombie was following us. My kids were little at the time, so I didn't say anything to them, but boy was I wierded out. I was actually afraid. I told them that we were done for the night and that I had more treats for them at home and we headed directly home.
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I have two favorites, Reeses Peanut Butter cups and Almond Joys.
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What a super giveaway.
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My favorite candy is Twix.
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My favorite beggar's night memory is my mom would suprize me with my costume. I would give her a short list of what I wanted to dress up as and she would pick one and make the costume and suprize me right before it was time to go out.
I follow you on google friend. My favorite candy is Jelly Belly jelly beans..the margarita flavor.
I love Swedish Fish the most!
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When we were little we didn't get candy very often except holidays. Halloween was the best time when I was younger. I love Almond Joys and Skor bars.
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Beggar's night memory: the man that lived next door to us was a dentist, and every year he gave out toothbrushes and toothpaste, along with FULL SIZED Hershey bars!
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Without question, my favorite candy is Reese's Pieces. Sometimes my husband will surprise me and bring home a bag, and I just find them irresistable!
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I love Chico Stix!
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Hey Pete,
I LOVE the fact that my chocolate truffles are your favorite candies. My friend gave me some red currents this week and I made truffles using their juice. Yum! I have extras if you'd like some:) I also love creative costumes. I never wore a store bought costume as a child. Of course back then store bought costumes consisted of a plastic mask and a plastic cape.
Beth, I love your creative genius! I guess you might call it "Sweet Inspiration." (Hey, that could be the title of your next book!)
Now, it's going to look like I'm trying to kiss something, but my favority candy is your chocolate truffles. They are awesome. If I have to choose a favorite of a more commercial nature it'd be heath bars…or butterfingers…or sugar babies. Pretty much anything that sticks to you teeth with the exception of tootsie rolls.
A good Beggar's Night memory:
We didn't have much money and buying a costume was out of the question. I always liked something that looked different. So I got an old t-shirt and sewed a skinny two-sided pouch down the back, and added another three sided pouch to the back of a pair of jeans. Then I got the handle to a mop my mom threw out, and nailed a laundry basket upside down on one end. I drew a BIG crazy face on a bed sheet, threw it over the laundry basket and stuck the mop handle into the pouches. I had a costume that was about nine feet tall, easy to wear, and was fairly different. Got lots of candy that night!
Your quesadilla recipe sounded good, but I didn't try it. We went to the opening night instead of having an eclipse party. But I like the idea: change the image to suit the occasion.
My favorite memory is winning a radio contest when I was a kid. To encourage kids to be home by a certain time they would hold drawing after 10 pm and I won a Dr. Pepper prize pack!
My favorite candy is Reese's PB cups or Butterfingers…must be the pb and choco combo. 🙂
My favorite candy is heath bars. Once I took my little sister trick-or-treating,she is 12 years younger than me. This boy around the block, knew I was taking her trick or treating, and wanted to pull a prank on me. He rigged a body to come out of the tree when we walked by. It scared my sister so much she wet her pants. He felt really bad about it and gave her a bunch of candy.
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and favorite candy would have to be peanut butter cups!
OMG! What a great idea! thanks Beth…love it!