Candy Corn Decoration for Doors or Windows
Family Craft Activity Adds Fall or Halloween Theme to Your Home
Sep 17, 2008
A candy corn theme will decorate your home's doors and windows after your family crafts poster board into giant sized candy, large enough to be seen from the street. This easy family craft activity costs little but results in huge-sized fall decorations or Halloween decorations with the playful theme of candy corn. Use this poster board craft as a fun family activity followed by a fall home decorating session to adorn windows and doors with colorful candy corn. For fall or Halloween parties, hang candy corn decorations around the party room.
Materials Needed for Candy Corn Decoration
- Yellow Poster Board – 1 sheet of yellow poster board for each giant candy corn decoration
- Orange Poster Board – 1 sheet of orange poster board for every 2 or 3 candy corn decorations
- White Poster Board – 1 sheet of white poster board for every 4-6 candy corn decorations
- Newsprint or other paper to make a pattern/template
- Scissors or craft knife
- Stapler or glue
- Pen or pencil for tracing patterns
- Laminating Supplies if using candy corn decorations outdoors (optional)
Note: This project requires one complete sheet of yellow poster board for each candy corn decoration. But one piece of orange poster board will provide supplies to make two candy corn decorations and one piece of white poster board will provide supplies to make four candy corn decorations.
Example: to make four giant candy corn decorations, buy
- 4 sheets of yellow poster board
- 2 sheets of orange poster board
- 1 sheet of white poster board
Directions for Candy Corn Decoration
- Cut a candy corn shape (tall triangle with rounded corners and curved bottom) pattern from newsprint. Make the pattern as large as possible but small enough to fit within the dimensions of the poster board.
- Trace entire candy corn outline onto yellow poster board. Use scissors or craft knife to cut out yellow poster board.
- On the newsprint pattern from above, draw two curved lines onto the pattern, marking where the orange and white colors belong on a typical piece of candy corn. Write #1 on the top triangle pattern piece, which is typically “white” on traditional candy corn. Write #2 on the middle section of the pattern, which is typically “orange” on traditional candy corn. Cut newsprint pattern on lines. Set bottom section aside.
- Lay #1 pattern, the top triangle piece onto white poster board and trace around pattern piece. Repeat using the same piece of white poster board. Try to fit as many top triangle pieces on the white poster board as possible. Cut out white poster board pieces.
- Lay #2 pattern, the middle candy corn section onto orange poster board. Trace around pattern piece, fitting as many pattern pieces as possible on one sheet of poster board. Cut out orange poster board pieces.
- Staple or glue white and orange pieces to yellow candy corn poster board pieces so that the colors are in order to look like a huge piece of candy corn.
- Laminate poster board if the candy corn decoration will hang outside.
- Hang candy corn in windows and on your home's front door.
More Family Craft Activities with Candy Corn Decorations
Make Candy Corn People – Turn this family craft activity into a wacky self-portrait by adding arms, legs, hats, sports’ gear and facial expressions to individual candy corn decorations. Have each family member decorate a giant candy corn with construction paper or poster board accessories and body parts.
Candy Corn Costume – String two giant candy corn decorations together for the front and back of a Halloween costume for a preschool aged child.
Halloween Party Decorations – This poster board craft decorates a party room with colorful candy corn treats.
Halloween Party Activity – Craft candy corn decorations or candy corn people as a party activity for guests.
Candy corn decorations serve as a fun family craft activity as well as a colorful fall or Halloween decoration for windows and doors of your home. Spend a little cash and get a lot of fall or Halloween decoration and family fun for your money by making this giant sized candy corn craft.
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