The German tradition of school Schultüte, or school cones, is where I got this idea for halloween Schultüte. School cones are for the kids first day of school, and I make them for halloween too! The kids really love them. Most of what I put inside, is small things such as toys, school or other supplies, silly things, whatever fits. A few pieces of homemade food, such as Tollhouse cookies, or a few store bought choccies. I try to put as little candy, sweets etc in as possible.
Step One: Find a fun, see-thru halloween bag, to hold the cone and add a tag. I cut the tag from halloween scrapbooking papers from the US. Added purple raffia and put the finished cone inside.
The Schultüte I made is a simple birthday party hat shape, made from halloween scrapbooking paper, stapled and glued together, into cone shape. This is the finished cone. The top, black part, is a simple knitted black winter mitten! It was very cute, worked perfectly to cover the top as it stretches, and looks silly, fun when tied. After they open it, they can then use the mittens also, during winter as it gets colder. I tied the mitten with purple raffia, then slipped it over the top of the cone shape. That is the finished Schultüte I put inside the orange halloween pumpkin bag, above.
Top view of the glove and raffia of the finished Schultüte.
What I put inside the Schultüte
Tiny bits and pieces, spiders, bats, candy this one
Front close-up of the jack-o-lantern halloween bag with scrapbook paper tag.
Filling the cone.
Then putting on the mitten top with rafia.
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