Milk Bottle Ghosts
Home » CREATE » Crafts » Halloween Crafts »Okay, so Halloween was yesterday, October is finished (and so is Crafty October!) But I still have a few more things to share with you! I’ve got lots of photos to go through so please bear with me!
I had saved a lot of milk bottles to make Milk Bottle Ghosts to put outside on Halloween night…

The kids that came round trick or treating loved them (so much so that a couple have gone missing lol)
I washed out the [plastic] milk bottles, drew faces on the front with a black marker pen, filled with some pea shingle to weight them down, and dropped in some glow sticks! They were so easy and cheap to make! Going to definitely do this again next year! Might even turn more milk bottles into snowmen for Christmas!
This post is part of my long-running Crafty October series on The Purple Pumpkin Blog. Since 2012, I’ve shared Halloween recipes, printables, and crafts every October. While I don’t officially run the series anymore, all my new Halloween posts are still part of this decades-long celebration of spooky fun! Browse past Crafty October years for even more inspiration: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012.

Alison Murphy
October 25, 2020 @ 5:33 pm
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for your brilliant posts. I was wondering how many glow sticks do you put in a milk bottle to light up like yours please? I put one in and there was hardly any colour. TIA
Alison x
Michelle
October 26, 2020 @ 10:06 am
Hi Alison
Gosh, I made these so long ago now I can’t remember – I probably put in several! I would keep adding until they’re nice and colorful!