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We are so making these this year for our annual Halloween Crazy Dinner! We have to tell you about our Crazy Dinner, but we will do that in another post, as it is just too fun.

Anyway, we just love these. And oh my gosh, how incredibly simple. Come on, it is just a bunch of crepe paper and construction paper! And dig out all those stickers that you have left over from past projects from your crafts closet or your crafts armoire and you are in business.

We always try to make sure that all the Halloween candy is out of the house asap if you know what we mean (and come on, you do). For us, it is a joke at this point because (yes, yes, it is a sad story, but a true one.) We are part of the unlucky people that have migraine attacks, and we know that chocolate is a migraine trigger. So we literally cannot eat chocolate without suffering from a massive brain pain. So out of the house it goes asap. We just hate to have it around.

So, come this Halloween, back to early childhood we go, and we are going to pull out our construction paper, our crepe paper, our blunt scissors and all the silly Halloween stickers we will have in our stock and we are going to make these wonderful Halloween hats and fill them with Halloween treats and use them as placeholders at our annual Halloween dinner. We cannot wait!

The beauty of this design is that it lends itself to absolutely everything. You have a birthday coming up? Fill it with treats and change the colors to match the birthday cake. It would make a great little craft for the kids in the house to keep busy doing while you are trying to get the house ready. Easter, it would be a wonderful basket replacement if you don’t want to fill an entire basket. Christmas - fill with a silly paper hat, a joke and a small gift to make your own Americanized Christmas pseudo cracker and put around the Christmas dinner table. Fourth of July - fill with water balloons and take everyone out to the pool later. You name it - this is a great little project and something that you don’t have to worry if it gets absolutely destroyed, because you can make about a kazillion more and they will all still look great!

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