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Personalized Homemade Halloween Trick-or-Treat Bags

When you put so much thought and effort into a Halloween costume, why stop when you get to the trick-or-treat bag?  I always try to customize a treat bag or container that coordinates with the costume.

My daughter is going to be Cruella de Vil this year, so this post is going to show you how easy it is to personalize a simple $2 purse from the thrift store with a few trims I already had on hand to make a fancy, fun, and flashy treat bag that will enhance her Cruella costume.  This is the purse I started with.

Cruellapurse

 

I cut a 2″ wide strip of dalmatian print fabric that was about 6″ longer than the length of the area where I was going to put it.  This extra length allows for gathers. This was leftover fabric from the dalmatian print ruffle I added to the bottom of her dress to extend it to her ankles.

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I used hot glue to first secure each end of the fabric where I wanted it to start and stop.  I put a drop of glue in the middle to glue the fabric down.  Then I ran a strip of glue

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Halloween Refashioning Trick or Treat Bags

Refashioning a Trick or Treat Bag From a T-Shirt

A fun way to make a customized treat bag for Halloween is to refashion a t- shirt. You can either start off with a t-shirt that has the image or logo that you need, or add decoration later to a plain shirt by paint, glitter glue, felt, ribbon or other embellishments.

This first tutorial shows a method that simply cuts the sleeves off. You can make a no-sew version of the t-shirt bag by cutting the sleeves off as shown, turning it inside out, tying a knot in the hem, and turning it right side out again. These bags are super cool.

This tutorial takes a long sleeved shirt and use the sleeves as the bag handle:

Personalize it to match your costume with numerous possibilities. Happy trick-or-treating!