Halloween Lanterns

I got this idea from a food blog, which happens to have some cute holiday ideas as well.
http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/10/crafty-in-kitchen-mason-jar-lanterns.html and she got it from here: http://notsoidlehands.blogspot.com/2009/09/freecycle-friday-glowing-jack-olantern.html

So I started by going to the Dollar Tree and getting a bunch of food items in plain jars.  I removed the labels and dried the jars and I was ready to get started.  You could use canning jars, but I wanted mine to be completely smooth without any letters on the glass itself.

The you choose some tissue paper (white can be ghosts, mummies, or skeletons, orange can be pumpkins, green can be frankensteins, and purple can be goblins or monsters).  Cut the tissue paper into strips about 2 inches wide.

Using a foam paint brush, paint one stripe of mod podge down, apply one strip of tissue paper.  Continue around the jar, overlapping the strips, going about halfway up the rim of the jar.  (If you are doing the mummy, do the strips of paper horizontally instead.)

Put jar upside down to dry (don't want it sticking to the table).

Once it dries, cut out some of these faces:  http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv144/emilie30/IMG_0001-1.jpg and http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv144/emilie30/IMG-1.jpg and http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv144/emilie30/IMG-2.jpg

You might want to print out these faces first and decide which jar each of them will go on, and match the tissue paper to that color (unless you know how to resize these faces, which I do not...)  For instance, the Frankenstein face prints out pretty big, so it would be best to use a larger jar for that.

Paste your faces on - if they are out of, say, felt, you can use a hot glue gun, if they are out of paper or thin cotton, you can use your mod podge.

You have a few choices for the tops.  You can spray paint the lids to the jars, and just put those back on (make sure the tissue paper goes up far enough), you can paint the rims, or you can put ribbon around them.  If you're crafty, you can probably come up with 10 more ways to finish them.  I used ribbon since I already had it.  I wrapped them around several times.

 Cute project, cute gifts, and lots of fun!