Save Your Egg Cartons To Craft The Cutest Mini Halloween Characters

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As the Halloween season creeps in, so does the desire to decorate spaces with festive decor. From ghoulish ghosts and classic jack-o'-lanterns to beloved (yet feared) monsters, witches, and vampires, these symbols help get everyone in the spirit of frights and delights. However, the price of decor is enough to dampen the efforts of even the most enthusiastic celebrators. Thankfully, the building blocks for cheap and fun decorations are likely sitting in your refrigerator right now. Let's just say, it's time to make a lot of omelets. Essentially, with every empty egg carton, there's a spooky craft waiting for a chance to shine. Enter egg-cartons-turned-mini-Halloween-characters — you're welcome! By cutting apart the curved cups, slapping on a coat of paint, and adding some eyeballs, you can design little pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, bats, and any other characters you want to decorate your space.

For this adorable DIY Halloween decor, you'll need at least one empty egg carton, an assortment of paints and brushes, craft glue, a pack of pipe cleaners, googly eyes, construction paper (optional), and a pair of scissors. Assuming you need everything apart from the egg carton and scissors, the costs can really add up. Try to get most items from a dollar store to make the project more budget-friendly. You can also purchase crafting sets for cheap on sites like Amazon. For under $20 you can get a JOYIN Washable Tempera Paint Set, while bulk Halloween Pipe Cleaners are available for under $10. 

There are so many creative ways to revamp egg cartons into Halloween decor, but miniature characters are perfect for dotting along your fireplace mantel, lining bookshelves, displaying on your kitchen counter, or decorating any sparse surfaces in need of a spooky refresh. Thread a bunch of them on a piece of string to create a creepy (yet adorable) garland. Since they're so lightweight, you could even turn them into ornaments to hang from large houseplants or on a Halloween tree.

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@One Little Project on TikTok demonstrates how you can use one or multiple egg carton cups to achieve different shapes. A single cup flipped upside down serves as the foundation for a bat or spider. Two cups glued together at the ends create a base for a pumpkin or jack-o'-lantern, while three stacked on top of each other make for perfect egg carton ghosts, vampires, Frankensteins, or witches. They use paint as the main medium to cover the cups, but you can also wrap the entire surface with pipe cleaners to achieve a more textured appearance. Construction paper can be used to make hats or caps. If you're doing this craft with little kids, it may be worth painting the pieces beforehand and allowing them to dry before letting the kids decorate the cups however they want.