I found this pin on repurposed candle jars from Life Anne Style and fell in love with the idea.  I have quite a few “cute” Halloween decorations and decided I needed to add some great “creepy” items to my collection.

I found my skeleton head in the seasonal section of Raley’s, I knew he would look perfect on my candle jar. Even better, he was already on clearance!

This is how I removed the wax from the jar. Take a large piece of foil, fold each edge over two times. Pinch the corners together and turn up each side of the foil. Place your foil on a cookie sheet, place candle jar upside on the foil.

Pre-heat your oven to 250 degrees,  place the foil on a cookie sheet then place the candle upside down on the foil. Place the cookie sheet in your oven for 10 – 15 minutes or until all the wax melts out of your candle on to the foil.

When all the wax has melted remove from oven. Place your warm jar on a paper plate to allow the last bit of melted wax to drop out. Let the melted wax remain in the foil until it cools and hardens.

Once the waxed has cooled and hardened, fold it up and throw it away. Easy peasy  clean up, no need to remove any wax from your cookie sheet.

Spray paint the lid from your jar with the color of your choice. I chose black, I always purchase my spray paint from Walmart because they have  best prices and selection.  Decide what type of decoration you want to glue to the lid of your jar. I used 6000 glue to adhere the skeleton head to the lid of my jar. I found that it works better than hot glue. I filled the jar with candy and searched for a label on Pinterest that I printed out and glued on.

Here is what my creepy guy looks like with the glowing light turned off. He still looks great!

Finally, a great way to reuse  any of your old candle jars. I already had spray paint, ribbon and candle jar. My only cost was the skeleton head which as I mentioned was on sale for $4.99. Can’t beat the price for a great decoration!

Yes, This Pin ROCKS!

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All you need is white computer paper, black cardstock, scissors, tape and self adhesive magnet strips. The big question was will mine look at good as the one from BH&G?

Instructions  

Go to BH&G site, register with them (it’s free!) then you can download the skeleton pattern. Then print it out on white paper. Cut out the pieces and glue them onto thick black cardstock; cut out again, leaving a small border of black cardstock around the pieces. Add self-adhesive magnet strips to the back of each piece and arrange on your fridge.

It took about 40 minutes to print, cut out and tape together. Then up on my fridge he went. Right away Landon (9) asked if he could “re-arrange” our skeleton. I told him to go for it! Next thing I see the skeleton is randomly spread out all over our fridge. I asked Landon what happened, his response one word…..tornado. Below are just some of the “poses” he has been in the past couple of days.

I wasn’t sure if this would turn out very cute. I was pleasantly surprised!  This was so easy that even I couldn’t mess it up. Our skeleton looks great which means……

This Pin Rocks!

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