If your entire household can belt out the entire soundtrack of Frozen chances are good that you have a Olaf fan. I am at the point of having a love/hate relationship with this movie-while I do love the storyline, amazing animation, and lovable characters I do not love that I have watched it approximately eleventy-hundred times since is release. This Halloween though – You can take an inexpensive Halloween treat bucket, a can of cheap spray paint, a few felt or craft foam pieces and transform it into that lovable warm hug loving character we all adore-Olaf.
Whether you have a princess Elsa or Anna in costume that would adore this to go along, or you want to extend the life of a bucket right through winter this craft project is quick and easy. If you dont have the bucket on hand already you can pick one up for $2 or less at Walmart, I found mine at a yardsale for a quarter, making it an even thriftier project.
Supplies Needed:
plastic pumpkin treat bucket
craft foam or felt in orange, white, and black
white spray paint
1 black pipe cleaner
black sharpie
hot glue gun/glue sticks
scissors
Directions:
Spray your bucket lightly with an even coat of paint, allow to dry for 10 minutes.
Add 2-3 more coats until sufficiently covered, drying 10 minutes between each one.
After final coat dry for a minimum of 4 hours before attaching details.
Cut pipe cleaner into 3 slightly varied lengths, attach to the top of pail for Olaf’s trademark hair.
From black felt or foam cut 2 round circles about 2” diameter, eyebrows, and a wide black mouth.
From white felt cut 20 1 1⁄4 “ diameter white circles, and a long rectangle shaped tooth.
Cut a carrot from the orange and add ridge detail with a black sharpie.
Hot glue all your pieces to the proper spots on his face: be careful not to touch plastic directly with the metal tip of the glue gun or it may melt a hole.
Rachel C says
Very cute! I can definitely see my daughters wanting to make buckets like this. They love to hot glue stuff!
Anel says
This is way cute!! It’s a very cute twist to the regular pumpkin trick or treat bucket! I’m going to show it to my sister so she can do this with my niece! They will love this! Thank you!
Julie Wood says
I love this awesome Olaf Pumpkin idea for Halloween! I will have to make this with my niece and have her use it on Halloween. Thanks for the awesome idea!
shelly peterson says
I love this, such a super cute idea!