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I was in the craft store a few days ago and saw a kit from Martha's line for cute favor bags. They were designed to look like witch brooms and I thought they were adorable. But I didn't want to spend any money on them since I knew I could do the same thing with items I already had at home.

Here's what you will need (per treat bag) if you'd like to make some, too:

2 brown paper bags
straight edge
exacto knife and cutting surface
twine
twig*

Directions:

Flatten one of the bags. The picture below isn't the best because I didn't take one with the sides smoothed out. Basically, you want two layers to cut through so push out the sides and flatten.

Leaving about a two inch border of the bag uncut at the top and bottom, cut lines through both layers in the center portion. No need to be too exact, it's a witch's broom after all.

Place your goodies in the uncut bag and place within the cut bag.

Shmoosh down a bit and gather both bags at the top. Insert your twig* and tie with twine.

I think these will be perfect to package our Halloween cutout cookies this year. I'll use the sugar cookie recipe and frosting technique I posted about here.

*If I were making these for children, I'd probably use a pretzel rod in lieu of a twig (maybe a cellophane wrapped chocolate-dipped pretzel rod, hmm...). Generally speaking, I'm against equipping children with a pointy, small, stick. Especially when they're in a group. And sugar is in their near future. I'm just saying...