a FALL fave! hands down for Halloween!
- Our Grand Lives
- Oct 25, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Oct 25
Updated on Sunday, October 26, 2025
(Originally posted on Friday, October 25, 2024)
Today, as a nod to Halloween,
Laura is sharing a FALL FAVE!
It’s a quick way to package a few Halloween goodies in a festive way!
HANDS DOWN… It’s a winner!
Years ago, this idea for a Halloween favor or goodie bag came to my attention!
The supplies were easy to find and were so versatile.
I could mix and match the contents and even personalize them.
As an added bonus, I was able to make several in short order
and my girls loved giving me a HAND as we assembled them, together!
This simple project is one I’ve made often over the years!
Today, I’m sharing two versions of this simple project…
One for the Littles in your life, filled with candy and/or toys
and, the other,
a sweet and salty version everyone will love!
Halloween Hands for Littles!
Over the years, I’ve delivered this version filled with candy and toys
to special Littles including kids in my Sunday School class.
It's an extra special way to show a Little in your life that you are thinking about them!
MATERIALS NEEDED
• food-safe vinyl disposable gloves (size M or L - latex & powder free)
(Here’s a link to the ones I purchased)
• individually wrapped candies (I used a variety of shapes & sizes)
• novelty Halloween toys (optional)
• ribbon
DIRECTIONS
1. Fill each disposable glove with a variety of candies or novelty toys. I used longer/thinner candies and toys to fill the fingers (Smarties, Twix bars, Monster Fingers) and then bigger/bulkier items to fill the palm. Feel free to use items your Littles favorites
2. Once you’ve filled the glove, use the ribbon to tie it shut! Add a spider ring (optional) for an extra dose of fun!
3. Repeat these steps until you have filled all the gloves you’d like to deliver!
Sweet & Salty Halloween Hands!
I’ve also surprised colleagues with a sweet and salty version of this treat,
one that I’d secretly deliver to their school mailboxes!
Believe you me… there’s nothing like the week leading up to Halloween
in an elementary school!
Treats are ALWAYS welcomed and appreciated!
MATERIALS NEEDED
• food-safe vinyl disposable gloves (size M or L - latex & powder free)
(again, these are the ones I bought)
• seasonal M & M’s (optional)
• Hershey Kisses (5 for each glove)
• cheese popcorn and caramel corn
• ribbon
NOTE: The above sweet and salty foods are options that I chose. You could also use other sweet treats (chocolate covered raisins, Craisins, candy corn) and salty snacks (cheese balls, plain popcorn) in place of those we used.
ONE MORE NOTE: In hindsight, I'd buy the bigger size of disposable gloves (I bought M) as the Hershey Kisses were a tight fit. It worked and I just pushed them into place with my finger, but beware!
DIRECTIONS
1. Place one Hershey Kiss in each of the five fingers of each disposable glove. These will represent the hand’s fingernails! (I used the dark chocolate ones with the purple foil covering. Details! Details!)
2. Fill the fingers and palm of each disposable glove with the salty mixture. (I used a combination of cheese and caramel corn and mixed in some Halloween M & M’s.)
3. Once the glove has been filled, use the ribbon to tie it shut!
4. Repeat these steps until you have filled all the gloves to be delivered!
Both of these Halloween Hands would also make
great table favors for a holiday party
OR
might be fun to have ready for trick-or-treaters
(especially if only a handful visit your neighborhood each year).
Halloween will soon be here and we hope our post
have given you a idea for your own spooky fun!
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Oh, these are such fun ideas!! Wow. I love the creative pumpkins you shared here. So cute. Thank you for sharing this post with us at the Will Blog for Comments #50 linkup. Have a great week! We hope to see you at #51 with more posts to share (old or new), which opens next Monday morning. ~Jennifer
You two always have the best ideas!
Thanks so much for stopping by!! So many great ideas here...I am looking forward to my twin granddaughters getting older and really enjoying Halloween...Wow! 1000 kids at a trunk and treat!!! This was the first time I ever went to one as my sons are in their 40's and there were no Trunk and Treats when they were young...It was fun and we are looking on improving it next year as it was our first time....I hope you are having a great day!!
Hugs,
Deb, Debbie-Dabble Blog
So much Halloween fun and goodness in one post! I love those ideas, we did the hand filled treats a few years ago and the kids loved it. Have a very Happy Halloween. #MMBC
Y'all have some fun ideas for celebrating. I look forward to having grandchildren living nearby in the new year. I spent a ridiculous sum sending something by mail to my across the pond grands. Sometimes you have to : )