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Alice posted Message 4529 in the CraftPals All Crafts BB
Dated September 17, 1999 at 085125
Subject Bug Jar with Treats for Halloween

HALLOWEEN BUG JAR TREAT

Saw something similar to this in a book for Halloween. Sorry I can't remember the title. I was just getting inspired-)

Take a used jar with a plastic lid.
Cut a circle out of the lid almost the size of the diameter,
you'll just have a little more than the screw down part left.
(Or you can do what was in the book and use a canning jar with just the ring, no lid part.)
Spray paint the lid/ring black. Cut a piece of window screening about 6" square or a size that
will fit the top of the jar with enough overhang to stick out from the lid when you screw it down. Now fill the jar with Hersey's Hugs; put screen on top and screw down lid.

I made orange colored labels for the jar that read "Halloween Bugs" and put clip art of spiders and ants on it. (The book used Hugs & Kisses with a hang tag attached to the ring with jute or raffia reading "Bugs + Hisses". They then slightly burned the edges of the tag.) There you have it- a bug jar filled with candy. Maybe filling it with some gummy worms would be interesting too.

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