DIY Mummy Candy Bar Wrappers: An Easy Halloween Craft

I adore creating Halloween crafts, and these mummy candy bar wrappers are a favorite of mine. Now that my kiddos are older, I don’t get to make Halloween costumes anymore, so I channel my Halloween creativity into crafts and treats.

At a glance: A mummy candy bar wrapper made with white card stock, a black marker, double-stick tape and googly eyes. It fits flat rectangular candy bars or boxed candy, and Hershey’s bars work especially well. Once you find your groove, you can make about 15 to 20 in 30 minutes. A great craft for beginning crafters, preschoolers and older kids, and seniors.

This DIY mummy candy bar wrapper is easy and so adorable. They make me smile every single time I see them.

Many mummy candy crafts call for hot glue and gauze. This one uses paper, a marker and double-stick tape, so there’s no glue gun to heat up and hardly any mess.

This is a great Halloween craft for beginning crafters and preschool or older children. The great thing is that it’s so stinkin’ cute, it will generate lots of compliments.

These mummy candy bar wrapper treats are perfect for:

• Handing out to trick-or-treaters
• Tucking into lunches as a Halloween treat
• Party favors
• Small gifts for coworkers
• Adding to a You’ve Been Boo’d gift for a neighbor
• A fun Halloween craft activity for children or seniors

Mummies are fascinating to children of all ages. For more information on Egyptian mummies, this Smithsonian article is worth the read.

Step-by-Step Instructions for Mummy Candy Bar Wrapper

1. Cut the paper to size. Cut the white card stock paper to wrap around your candy bar and overlap enough to tape together in the back. You’ll need to measure it for the candy you choose to use. I usually overlap 3/4 to 1 inch in the back, which gives you enough space to fit the double-stick tape.

2. Draw the gauze lines. Using a ruler and black marker, draw lines to mimic wrapped gauze. Don’t make the lines perfect; let them tilt a bit. You can draw them all the way to the edges of the paper, but you don’t have to, since that part will overlap in the back.

3. Draw the eye space. Draw a semi-circle shape under one of the lines. This will be the space where you add the eyes. Color the half-circle in.

4. Add the googly eyes. Add googly eyes with double-stick tape. You can use glue if you prefer, but I find that double-stick tape works well and isn’t messy.

5. Wrap and tape. Wrap the paper around your candy bar and tape the overlap together in the back

These are easy to make, and you can make about 15 to 20 in 30 minutes. The first two will take you a bit longer, and then you’ll find your groove and the rest will go faster.

Mummy Candy Bar Wrapper FAQs

More Simple Halloween Candy Crafts

Halloween Pencil Cases – They’re perfect to make as a craft and to hold candy, especially these DIY mummy candy bar wrappers.

Scrap Buster Mummy Treats – Use up all those little scraps of craft paper to make a variation on a mummy craft treat.

Ghost Candy Wrapper – Yes, apparently, we enjoy decorating candy for Halloween

Gauze Wrapped Mummy Treats – Another candy treat with a mummy theme.

Frankenstein Craft – A cute scary paper craft.

Halloween Treat Envelopes – You can fill them with gift certificates or money.

More Halloween Activities

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• Halloween Word Search – Three free printable Halloween word search pages, each with 15 words. Make developing problem solving and word skills scary fun.
• Halloween Trivia Questions – These free 35 Halloween Trivia Questions and answer cards are perfect for a party, to add to a lunchbox or as a family dinner activity.
• Easy Halloween Treats – Decorating candy for Halloween can’t get any easier than using these adorable printable jack o’lantern images.

And voila!  You’ve made your own Halloween Crafts – Mummy Candy Bar Wrappers.  They’re so much fun to make, so be sure to make lots to give away.

Scroll through all my Halloween ideas in the table below.