Adorable DIY Halloween eyeball votives

These cute cheesecloth and paper wrapped votives are an easy Halloween DIY decoration! 

I just adore these spooky little votives dressed up for Halloween. I made two versions -- a black paper option and a cheesecloth one that looks like tiny little mummies: 

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They are SO cute! 

For the first version you'll need black construction paper or card stock. I started these paper wrapped Halloween votives by cutting black card stock into strips using my wavy craft scissors. 

I made sure they were long enough to go around the glass votive once:You can also tear pieces of paper and glue them on, but I thought this was much easier!

Before you glue the paper on, grab a hole punch and make "eyes" all down the strip:

Hot glue the start and end of the strip to the back:

Keep going with the strips till you get to the top. I think I had about five strips per candle, but you could do less if you made them thicker.

Then, I used a black Sharpie to complete the eyes:

I made them go every which way -- and some crossed-eyed. Those are my favorites! ;)

For the little mummy votives, I took some googly eyes and hot glued them all over the votive holder:

It's OK if glue smudges out, you won't see it later.

I took some inexpensive cheesecloth, cut it into strips and wrapped it like a mummy:

UM, I know! Cuteness!! I just hot glued one end, then wrapped it and hot glued the other end. I used one long, skinny piece of the cheesecloth for each votive.

I dropped in some LED votives (they are all I use for decor like this anymore -- love them!), and this is what you get:

At night, the cuteness really shines through:

Oh my goodness gracious, they are adorable:

What a fun project to do with the kids! My guy is still a little too small to do this one, but with some supervision, and an adult handling the hot glue, they could definitely join in.

I made eight of them for ten bucks -- but I bought new votive holders and googly eyes because what I had were too small. Cheap!

See how I used them on our Halloween mantel here. And you can use your extra cheesecloth to make these cute cheesecloth ghosts! 

Do you love my little ghouls?

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