This cute little Paper Bag Candy Corn Puppet Craft is just what you need to add some color to your Halloween puppet show; & they’re easy to make!

Most people are familiar with how the candy corn looks, especially since it never fails to make an appearance around this time of the year – year after year!

This particular candy is identified by its typical tricolor pattern, consisting of white, yellow and orange. It’s got a vanilla, buttery flavor, and lots of sweetness thanks to sugar and honey.

But why exactly is candy corn a part of Halloween celebrations? What’s the history?

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Where did Candy Corn begin?

Candy corn was invented by George Renninger, an employee of the Wunderle Candy Company in the 1880s. The colors were chosen to represent the colors of the fall harvest, like corn on the cob.

Initially, candy corn was meant to be an affordable sweet treat, largely advertised to the rural population. However, in the 1950s, when trick-or-treating for candy began to gain popularity, candy corn became an instant favorite for Fall and Halloween. The rest is history!

Today, Brach’s Confections is the largest candy corn manufacturer in the world, making 7 billion pieces of candy corn every year. There are also candy corn-flavored Oreos and M&Ms these days, and candy corn became so popular that the National Confectioners Association decided to celebrate 30th October as National Candy Corn Day!

Since it’s the season to celebrate everything Fall and Halloween, we think it’s the perfect time to celebrate candy corn too – and we’ve got the perfect craft for it!

Paper Bag Candy Corn Puppet Craft

Supplies required:

Brown paper bag
Craft paper in different colors
Pencil
Scissors
Glue

How to make the Paper Bag Candy Corn Puppet:

1. Download and print the paper bag candy corn puppet template. The template includes the puppet’s body, head, arms, legs, eyes, mouth, cheeks, hat, band and buckle.

2. Trace the parts of the template on craft papers of the appropriate colors and cut them out. Go with orange for the body, arms and legs, and choose yellow and white for the two parts of the head. The hat can be purple or black, and you can choose any contrasting color for the band and buckle.

3. Let’s start by assembling the head of our paper bag candy corn puppet. Stick the white part on top of the yellow, by applying glue behind the yellow part.

4. Stick on the pink cheeks and little smile on the bottom of the yellow stripe. Arrange them so that the cheeks are at the left and right ends, and the smile is in the middle.

5. Fix the eyes of the puppet on the yellow stripe too, so they rest somewhat between the mouth and cheeks.

6. The head of the paper bag candy corn puppet is done, now let’s move on to the body! Stick the legs to the bottom of the body part, applying glue at the back.

7. Time to put everything together! Gather the body, head, arms and your paper bag.

8. Stick the head on the folded flap of the brown paper bag.

9. Stick the body on the portion below the folded flap of the brown paper bag.

10. Apply a little glue on the ends of the arms and stick them on either side of the body, sticking on the back side.

11. Time to dress up our paper bag candy corn puppet – with a hat! Make slits in the buckle where shown, and thread the band through it as shown in the image below.

12. Use glue to stick the band and buckle on the puppet’s hat.

13. Stick the finished hat on top of the paper bag candy corn puppet’s head – and it’s done!

14. Now all that’s left to do is to make as many candy corn puppets as you like – and dress them up in hats of different colors!

I don’t know about you, but it feels like a paper bag candy corn puppet would be the perfect sidekick in a Halloween-themed puppet show. Of course, you can choose anyone as the hero and villain, but we all know that the actual applause is reserved for the comic relief!

If you need more characters for your Halloween puppet show, check out these paper bag puppets: