Miss Boo Jug
 

BOO JUGS

 

How to make a

Boo Jug.

 A month before Halloween start saving your empty gallon milk jugs.  The ones that have the holes indented on the front sides work good.  Those holes are perfect for eyes.

 

Parts & Tools:  empty clean/dry plastic milk jug, BOO face graphic, fine point black marker and heavy/thick point black marker, Xacto knife, timer candle, couple of rocks.

 

 

First, I Googled ‘Halloween faces’ and drew off free hand some that I liked.  You could print them off, but they’re not going to turn out exactly like they look and might as well save the printer ink.  You might just draw your own.



 

(Forgot to fix the date on the camera again!)

 

Next take a milk jug and trace the outline for the black areas with the fine point marker.  Don’t get obsessive about this cause it’s going to turn out just fine.



 

 



Then fill in the black spaces with the thick point black marker.  You may want to let it dry and give it a couple of coats to get it nice and dark.

 

I got carried away as usual and did three.  Occasionally I get a carton of milk at McDonalds.  The lids on those little bottles look great on a Boo Jug, but you can use the lid that came on it, it’s not going to show up at night, outside, anyway.

 

The timer candle is really neat.  You turn it on and it burns for 6 hours and turns itself off.  BUT the next day, it turns itself back on at the same time and burns another six hours.   (Aunt D. got me these, from one of the TV shopping channels, for Christmas last year.  She’s pretty smart.  She said she knew I’d find some decorating scheme to use them.)

Just cut a flap in one of the back sides of the milk jug.  I like to hold it with the handle in my left hand and cut the flap on the right back.  If you’re left handed just do the opposite, but you probably already figured that out.  Just make the flap big enough to fit the candle and a couple of fingers so you can slip it inside.



So these are my three Boo Jugs for 2013.  Each has a distinct expression.  And you can see that none of them are exactly like the original graphic. 



You might just draw your own or have the kids draw some “Boo” expressions and then use their faces.  Fun !!

 

When it gets dusk, go outside and put a couple of rocks in the Boo Jug and shake them to the front.  Turn on the timer candle and stick it just in the back.  Tuck in the flap.  Put the Boo Jug out with your other decorations.  Six hours later, it will go out.  AND tomorrow evening, same time it will come back on. 

 

 

Smart little Boo Jugs!



 

Copyright - 2013 - Doris Grant Frey