PUMPKIN FAMILY FALL CRAFT---Makes a father, son and daughter family. They are decorated with faces, hair and clothes. Fun to make.
3 pumpkins 4" diameter for heads
3 pumpkins 8" diameter for bodies
Knife
Craft glue
Twine, 1 roll
Scissors
1/8" wide ribbon
3 pairs medium buttons
3 pairs small buttons
Brown pipe cleaners
1 yard ribbon 1" wide
6 acorns
2 very small buttons
Pair large and small pumpkins. Carve a hole in bottom of each small pumpkin, large enough for stem of large pumpkin to fit inside. FOR GIRL'S HAIR & PIGTAILS---Take smallest pumpkin and glue twine in straight lines across pumpkin, leaving 5" tails at each end. Braid tails and tie with 1/4" wide ribbon. FOR BOY'S AND FATHER'S HAIR---Glue end of twine to pumpkin at base of stem, wrap around, gluing as you go. Continue until 1/3 of pumpkin is covered. Glue smaller button to medium buttons, glue to pumpkins for EYES. For GIRL'S MOUTH---Cut a 2" piece of brown pipe cleaner, bend in a curve, and glue to face. FOR BOY'S AND FATHER'S MOUTHS---Make a braid of twine 6" long. Cut in half. Glue to pumpkins in an upward curve, trimming as necessary. FOR GIRL'S BODY---Cut a 1" piece of wide ribbon and glue vertically to body pumpkin. Cut a 10" piece of same ribbon and glue to pumpkin to make a skirt. Glue two very small buttons to corners of pinafore. FOR BOY'S AND FATHER'S BODIES---Glue a piece of same ribbon down front of body pumpkins. For buttons, glue acorns to ribbon. Fit heads over stems of bodies. Glue heads to bodies. SET on porch or in your house for an adorable fall decoration...
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