This jack-o-lantern is so feather-light you can hang it on the wall with straight pins! Pictorial how-to:
Halloween is second only to Christmas as the most decorated holiday, and this DIY project is cute and easy and best of all, CHEAP! We tried something similar for St. Patrick’s day. More detailed instructions available here.
Step 1: sketch jack-o-lantern’s shape, face and eyes. If you’ve ever carved a real pumpkin, you are probably familiar with this step!
Step 2: Using inexpensive styrofoam insulating sheathing, draw your creation with a Sharpie.
Step 3: Cut excess foam away from jack-o-lantern using a cheap, sharp knife.
Step 4: After cutting grooves to emphasize depth, cut out mouth, nose and eyes. Remember to leave the eyeballs!
Step 5: Experimenting with color. We though painting the grooves a darker orange would bring out the depth (above), but soon discovered (below) that the dried color only made red looking stripes.
Step 6: We repainted all one color orange. We used Vivid Orange, FolkArt Multi-Surface Acyrlic Paint available at Michael’s.
Step 7: The inside of the eyes, nose and mouth was painted a yellow-orange (we used a real pumpkin’s innards to help us determine the right color, which was actually very close to the color of a manila envelope.) T mixed FolkArt’s Vivid Orange with FolkArt’s Wicker White and FolkArt’s Lemon Custard until the color was pretty close to perfect. For the green stem, we used FolkArt’s Kelly Green.
Our new wall creation gets top-billing on our over-sized kitchen wall. We used 4 straight pins to hang this on our wall. 4! Bonus: when Halloween is over, there’s no visible holes in the wall. And, unlike real pumpkin carving, this darling pumpkin will get stored in a black and orange bin and will get reused year to year.
Approximate size: 28″x16″x2″
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