Thanksgiving Treat Bags on a Budget

I’m always looking for unique ideas for holiday party favours that won’t leave my wallet too deflated. To that end, the only new supplies I bought for this idea were some plain paper treat bags. The rest of the odds and ends used came from my craft stash.

Here’s how I made Thanksgiving treat bags on a budget.

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Thanksgiving Treat Bags on a Budget

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Step 1: Choose a Cupcake Liner

 

I found these left-over fall baking cups in my cupboard. Thankfully, there were enough of them left for the 10 treat bags I wanted to make. I also used some plain paper treat bags. I think I found these at Dollarama.

Step 2: Iron Cupcake Liners

 

 

I needed the paper liners to lay flat, so I put my iron on low heat and carefully worked my way around the cupcake liners to get the ridges out. I wasn’t sure this would work, but it did the trick. 

Step 3: Glue Liner to Paper Bag

 

 

Next, I used the glue stick on the back of the liners and pressed them onto the front of the bags, making sure the design sat right close to the bottom of the bags. I carefully smoothed them out from the middle to the edges. You may need to go around the edges and add additional glue where needed.

Step 4: Fold Top of Bag

 

Leave about two and a half inches at the top of the bag for a flap.

Step 5: Add Greeting

 

Next, I printed out a sheet of messages to glue near the top of the treat bag. I liked the font Script MT and sized it at 22. You could also place the message directly across the centre of the cupcake liner.

Step 6: Decorate Mini Clothespins

 

For bag closures, I found some small clothes pins in my stash and thought I could make them do if I covered up the flowers. That’s were the cupcake picks came in. I had three different fall designs on hand. 

 

 

All I did was snap off the wood pick just below the pictures and hot glued them over top of the flower on the clothespins. If you have some plain mini clothes pins on hand, you can decorate them by gluing the pictures to the top of the clothes pins in a similar fashion.

Any small, flat design, such as mini felt leaves or fall table scatter, will work to add a design to clothes pins, too.

Step 7: Fill Bags and Use Clothes Pin Closures

 

 

Then just fill the bags with whatever treats you want, fold the top of the bag over to make a flap, and clip the bags shut using the decorated clothes pins. I put some chocolate and an apple cider packet in each of mine.

Finally

 

I’m more than satisfied with the way these budget Thanksgiving treat bags turned out. I set one at each place setting and they made a pretty addition to my Thanksgiving table. I hope this idea gives you inspiration for creating your own Thanksgiving treat bags. 

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