Easy Tissue Paper Pumpkin Filled with Candy

Want to be the hit of your kids class for Halloween. How about a cute little Pumpkin filled with candy? Win. Win. Win.

Easy Tissue Paper Pumpkin 
Filled with Candy

Materials:
Orange tissue paper
Green tape (floral, electrical or painters tape)
Assorted candy
9″ cake pan
Scissors
Pencil

Directions:
Pile 2 pieces of tissue paper together and draw the outline of a circle. I used an upside down 9″ cake pan to draw the circles, but you could use anything round that’s around the same size.

Using sharp scissors, cut out the circle. You need to end up with two tissue paper circles on top of each other. If you want to make more than one pumpkin, you could probably pile as many as 6 to 8 sheets of tissue paper together to speed things up.

Pile your favourite candy into the center of the circle. You’ll have to do a little trial and error to see how much will fit. The more candy you add, the more round and “full” looking the pumpkin will be. The first one I made didn’t have enough candy in it, so it kind of looked a little droopy.

Take the circles and the candies and center them over your hand. Use your fingers to gently bend the paper around the candy. Try to get the folds as neat and tidy as possible.

Gather up the edges of the circle.

And then pinch and twist them closed as best you can. I thought it would be tricky to get the creases to look natural and tidy, but it really wasn’t too bad. Just do your best and I’m sure they’ll be great!

Cut a small piece of green tape. I used dollar store electrical tape, but you could also use floral tape or green painters tape.

Wrap the tape around the twisted end of the pumpkin top.

And twist it around to get the pumpkin stem.

Don’t these make the cutest party favours!? They are like miniature pumpkin pinatas!

And when you open them up, they are filled with a wonderful surprise! Candy? Check! Presents? Check!