Halloween Decoration Made From Fruit Packaging

Halloween Spiders from Fruit Packaging

Halloween Centerpiece

What you will need for this project:

Two fruit packaging trays
Dollar store poster paint
Candy
Red gumballs 
Cotton balls
Paint brushes or dollar store cotton swabs
Scissors

I used the fruit packaging that I had from having fruit shipped to me. It's a thin black plastic like container.

I rounded up some caramels, red bubble gum, red and orange colored candies and placed them in the fruit packaging.

I took some cotton balls and unraveled them and stretched them out to make faux cobwebs and place them around and between the fruit packaging.

I bought some dollar store chocolate that came wrapped in Halloween skulls and placed them in the tray.

I made Halloween spiders out of the other black fruit tray.

Use a pair of scissors and cut out the individual cups from the tray.

Trim the excess bits off them.

I used dollar store cotton swabs to paint the poster paints with. They are cheap and disposable. They do come apart fast but I still find them worth using. You can paint with paint brushes if you like.

I used dollar store poster paint to make spider faces on the cups.

I dabbed black poster paint to make the pupils.

I used red finger paint from the dollar store to paint scowling eyebrows.

I painted some spiders with white fangs and others with red angry mouths.

Now you've got a collection of Halloween spiders made from a fruit tray.

To make the Halloween pine cones I collected the pine cones. Washed them in a bucket of warm soapy water. Let them dry over the course of a couple days. They will dry faster in the sun. They close up when wet and open again when dry.

When the pine cones were dry I painted some of them black and some of them orange with dollar store poster paints. I mixed red and yellow poster paints to get the orange color.

I gently pulled apart dollar store cotton balls to make cobwebs.

I draped the cotton over the Halloween colored pine cones.

To make the white washed wood part of the centerpiece I collected wood scraps and logs.

Paint parts of the wood with solid white strokes. Do not paint the whole piece of wood white.

Add some white paint to some water and mix together. Paint the rest of the wood with the watered down paint. Let dry. Now you've got your spooky whitewashed wood.

Then I just assembled all the pieces to make a Halloween centerpiece filled with candy.