by Lorelei Cohen

Created on: October 06, 2009

Ice cream, honey, peanut butter and jam are all foods that can be purchased in plastic pails. These various sized buckets are usually useful, or unique, and so we hold on to them for a time when we can put them to good use. Well, Halloween is the perfect time to pull these buckets out as they make amazing candy catchers for your wee ones acquired loot on Halloween night. Decorated to reflect your distinctive personality, or Halloween costume theme, it is just so easy to figure out how to make a homemade Halloween candy bucket.

If you do not happen to have any plastic buckets on hand that you are willing to donate over to the kids, no worries, these buckets are actually quite easy to locate. You just have to know how to find them. Make a quick phone call to your local McDonalds, Burger King, Dairy Queen or other local fast food businesses. They generally receive a lot of food products that arrive in buckets and are only to happy to pass on these pails when they are empty.

If you have a small plastic pail, then you have the makings of a candy bucket, you just need to add your creative energy into the mix. Of course a few different colored industrial markers will help out a lot too, they write on just about everything, and they don't easily rub off. So let's get creative.

Purple, yellow, green, blue or orange buckets are great. You can create ghouls, pumpkins, very sick feeling people, aliens, frogs and alligators. Frog limbs can be easily drawn on the side of a green bucket while a cute froggy face is pretty easy to create on the front. If you want an alien you can pretty much come up with any facial image that your mind can invent because not too many people really know what an alien looks like anyways. Tin foil, silver pipe cleaners, or other silvery accessories will help enhance his appearance. Arms can be designed in a number of ways. You can use pantyhose or socks filled with bunched up paper towels, or braid yarn or cloth strips together to make long floppy arms, then tie these onto either side of the handle your bucket. For a robot you can use toilet paper or paper towel cardboards covered in tin foil.

Multicolored yarns can be used to create the hair color of whichever creature or ghoul it is that you are trying to capture on the face of your bucket. Black yarn for a vampire or villian, blond for an innocent girl or boy, grey for a grandpa or grandma, you choose the color for the creature that you are creating. If you want an animal you will definitely

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