Here at All Halloween Crafts you can find a number of great, original, craft ideas for Halloween, and the craft project below, “Ghoulishly Frightful Candy Bowls,” is one of our favorites!

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Ghoulishly Frightful Candy Bowls

By Sirena Van Schaik

Ghoulishly Frightful Candy Bowls

With Halloween not that far around the corner, there is one thing that has entered everyone’s mind; how am I going to give out my Halloween candy?

If you are like me, you probably just pull out a yucky bowl from the cupboard, one that is either big and plastic or big and metal. No zing, and no fright, unless you are trying to scare the parents with reminders of cooking. The presentation is lacklustre and you hand out too many candies to keep the children’s gazes focused on your candy and not on the bowl.

If you are nodding your head in agreement right now, you are probably wondering what you can do to make sure that your candy bowl lives up to all your other expectations. Well, in this little article, we have just the thing you need to do for a Halloween candy bowl that is fit for kings…okay, maybe not kings but definitely ghouls of all ages.

What you need:

• One large plastic bowl (you can use clear plastic or solid but choose a bright colored bowl.)
• Staze-On (look in the stamp section of your craft store, this is a permanent ink, not a water based)
• Spooky stamps (I used two Stampin’ Up sets for my ghoulishly frightful bowl. They were Booglie Eyes and Halloween Background)
• Sharpie pens (or fine tipped permanent markers)
• Spray Sealer

Directions:

1. After you purchase your bowl, wash it with soap and water before you begin this craft. Make sure the bowl is completely dry before you begin stamping.
2. With the Staze-On, carefully ink your stamp. Make sure it is well covered.
3. Next, carefully stamp the image onto the outside of the bowl. Because your bowl is curved, you will need to carefully rock the stamp from one side to the other. Make sure that you do not rock back and forth but make it a smooth motion to keep the image from slipping or repeating.
4. Follow a pattern with the stamp. In my example, I used the bat and spider for Stampin Ups Booglie Eyes around the top, created a broken line with a corner of the Staze-On ink pad and finished off the bottom with the spiders from Stampin Ups Halloween Backgrounds.
5. When you have finished stamping all the images, you can color any of the images that need to be colored with the permanent marker. In my example, I colored in the bat and spider from Booglie Eyes.
6. If you find at any time that the image did not go on, you can easily remove the stamped image with a wet cloth if you remove it immediately. If you don’t remove it right away, a little touch of powdered bathroom cleanser (Comet) on the cloth will lift the image right off.
7. And then your bowl is finished. If you do not seal it with a spray sealer, do not wash the bowl with water. Simply wipe off with a dry cloth. The print will hold. If you do spray it with a sealer, such as Krylon clear acrylic, make sure you apply several coats, probably about 3. Also, purchase a test bowl before you use the sealer to make sure that it does not melt the plastic or discolor it in anyway.
8. After it is sprayed, you should be able to wash it; however, you should never wash it in hot water, use only warm, and you should never use any abrasive cleaners on the bowl. Also, never soak the bowl in water.

And there you have your Ghoulishly Frightful Candy Bowl, all ready for Halloween.