Okay... so I will admit... I'm pretty proud of us on this one. It turned out so much better than I had expected!
So here is the story behind it...My son has been asking to carve a pumpkin. We all know that if we were to have carved his pumpkin, mid-
September, it would have been a rotted, nasty mess before Halloween arrived. So I knew our next craft would have a pumpkin worked in somehow.
The plan started out as just a painted cardboard jack-o-lantern, with orange tissue paper on the back. Then I thought we could light it, by making it a light cover for our porch light, and measured accordingly and attached it, using only pipe cleaners and 2 beads. (Let me mention here that the scary face was
HIS idea)
But...Since that took NO time at all, and he wanted to keep painting, I squashed one toilet paper tube and one paper towel tube, and cut them up. We then painted all 26 "leaves" and I tied them together with string and beads and tied them onto the light as well.
And VOILA! We are both so proud of our front porch. :) He now insists on going out each night, to admire his handy work.We used:-cardboard (I used the back flap of an old notebook)-red, yellow, green, and black paint-string-beads-toilet paper and paper towel tubes-orange tissue paper-pipe cleanersTip:Instead of orange tissue paper, you can flatten a coffee filter and paint it with water colors, and let dry.
