hello there show & tell! i have been wanting to make some little "broom" treat bags 4{EVER}! and i mean it when i say that because i started them last year...ran short of time & tucked everything away in a drawer. wasn't going to repeat again this year by showing the year's before...because that'd be like running a repeat...of a repeat!
so w/ a little extra time on sunday i got out the goods and got busy. and was tickled to make a little grouping of them {below}. interested on learning how? well please read on my friend...
now mind you...this is a MARTHA STEWART found project from years ago. infact i have already done them once...but love them so much i had to do again for those of you who missed it. i know...really still repeating here. but this time i took some snapshots to hopefully give you an idea of how i did them. it's sometimes hard for me to get instructions across with my somewhat {always} long rambling...but here goes!
if you're lucky like me to live on the edge of some woods...then twigs are not hard to come by. if not...well hopefully a stroll down the sidewalk or street would provide a few stray branches for your crafting pleasure. pick up sticks! {below}
now i go to our local hardware store enough that i felt comfortable asking if they'd share some of their small brown sacs with me. and they did for a minimal cost. but if you don't have access to tiny brown bags like mine {below}...then a small lunch bag would be fine too. it just will take a little more goodies to fill which will likely please the recipient anyway! :)
you will need two sacs to make each broom. take the outer one...and fold the bottom down like shown {below} as you don't want to cut into that formed "V". you can use scissors but as a time saver i used my paper cutter to make many cuts forming thin "strips". cut with care...
then you want to take the second sac...your "inner liner" and cut the top down to make strips only on the top 1-2". you then will tuck that "liner" sac into the outside bag with all the long strips. see those steps {below}
my favorite part. grab some sweet treats. i got an array of cookies and candy following with halloween tradition. you could fill with a multitude of surprise i suppose. i have to test what i give so of course candy it was! fill the inside sac up with as much as you like!
just some last few fluffing details...see them {below}.
so here's hoping my steps above will yield you a broom something like that of this cutie {below}.
now you can sweep up with your own sweet treat sacs! you'll be the queen witch with these fabulous little treat favors perfect for halloween get togethers + trick or treaters alike!
HAPPY CREATING & TREATING!
