A Peek at the Fun: Want to surprise someone this Halloween with a creative Halloween gift basket? This one has goodies stuffed inside a cute bat mouth, making it super fun and creative. Fill it with anything you want and include this cute free printable tag!
We LOVE these fun carve-able craft pumpkins that you can find at craft stores these days and we love putting together cute gifts, so we thought it would be fun to carve one of these cute pumpkins and then fill it with Halloween fun and make it into a perfect Halloween gift basket! And to make it even cuter, we’ve made ours look like a little bat. A cute, smiling, fun-filled bat. Here’s our cute Batty Gift Idea:
He’s got a mouthful of Halloween fun! You could fill him with candy and treats or little things like socks, stickers, pencils, nail polish, cute band-aids, glow sticks or anything cute. We found a bunch of things in the dollar spot that were perfect.
Cute right? Who would you give this Halloween gift basket to? Got someone in your life who will love it?
Let’s make it!
Batty Halloween Gift Basket:
Supplies Needed:
- Black Carve-able Pumpkin (we got ours at Michael’s craft store)
- Knife to cut with
- Hot Glue
- Large googly eyes
- Black cardstock
- White cardstock
- Printable tag (see below)
- Bat Wing Template
Instructions:
Mark a circle for the mouth opening on your pumpkin.
Cut along the line you just made.
Cut your wings from black cardstock. (There’s a pattern above if you want it.) Cut your fangs from white cardstock.
Use hot glue to attach the eyes, wings, and fangs.
Fill the opening with all your goodies.
Printable Halloween Gift Tag:
Then attach this cute Halloween tag. You can either right click and save and open in a program like Word or Pages and size how you want then print, OR you can print the PDF below that has several tags ready for you on it.
Here’s a video to see how we did it:
Now make this cute Halloween gift basket and give it to someone special!
Have FUN giving this Halloween gift basket!
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Laurie says
I do not see the pattern for the bat wings?
Amber & Danetta says
Sorry about that! Got that fixed!
Laurie says
Thank You!