Castellon's Kitchen: Halloween Trunk or Treat Trophies

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Halloween Trunk or Treat Trophies

I volunteered to make the trophies for my son's Trunk or Treat event at his elementary school this year and I can honestly say these were really hard to give away. I think they turned out so adorable and they were so much fun to make, that I really miss them! Luckily, I took these pictures so I can remember them always! ;)
All kidding aside, Pinterest has tons of cute trophy ideas using these mini dollar store skeletons so I wanted to try to make some of my own. The event being a Trunk or Treat, I wanted the skeletons to be in cars of some kind. I went looking for small toys that I could use but all of which were the wrong scale and too expensive. That's when I turned to my crafting stash. I rummaged through and found two wooden coffins from many years ago and that's when it hit me to make little coffin cars. I bought two new coffins that were both different and added wooden wheels, spray painted the whole thing silver and added some rhinestone headlights. From there, I added accents which created the themes of each coffin car using odds and ends that I had lying around. I broke out my scrapbook paper, stickers, buttons and other supplies to make the rosettes, and added the cute brads to the labels.
The jack-o-lantern is an eraser I bought from a Book Fair last year. The mini skull and crossbones were part of a bracelet that I cut up and spray painted silver...Anyway, take a look around and I hope these inspire you to make your own! Happy Halloween!