These are so neat looking! I had to share and will try out one or two and post pictures. If you have any cool ideas or pictures you have taken, please share!
- Use a grey pumpkin for the rat. Cut a circle from the bottom of the pumpkin.
- Transfer two ear patterns to the circle.
- Transfer the eyes and mouth patterns onto the pumpkin.
- Using a knife or carving tools, cut out the openings.
- Use a gouge to carve a thin mouth, carving just deep enough to reveal the inner rind.
- Use half a gourd for the nose and attach it using wood skewers.
- Push pieces of floral cloth wire into the nose for whiskers.
- Add a chef's hat, a wire whisk, and checkered dish towel to complete the design.
- Transfer the patterns onto pumpkins. Editor's Tip: Use a gray pumpkin to make an alien.
- Using a knife or carving tools, cut out the openings.
- Use a gouge to cut into the teeth, cutting just deep enough to make them "pearly-whites."
- Drill large holes into the pumpkins to receive the gourd antennae (for the left and center pumpkins) and the gourd nose (for the far-right pumpkin).
- Paint the outside of clear plastic ornaments in bright colors for eyeballs.
- Cut large white circles and smaller black circles from crafts foam for eyes.
- Glue the circles together and add red veins using a felt-tip marking pen.
- Hot-glue the eyes onto the painted eyeballs. Except for the one-eyed alien, hot-glue the assembled eyes in place.
- For the one-eyed alien, cut a circle in the front of the pumpkin and slip an eyeball in place.
- If desired, cut a tongue from pink crafts foam and slip it into a mouth.
I found these and many more at Better Homes and Garden 100 Days of Holidays.
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