Thursday, October 23, 2008

Jack-O-Lanterns

I wasn't sure if this was going to come out or not, but I think they are cute.

You will need:
-two egg pockets from an egg carton
-green pipe cleaner; long enough to go through your pumpkin and leave a stem
-a ice pick or something similar to poke holes with
-a marker for making the face
-orange crayon or paint

1) I cut the egg pockets down so there weren't any dips/holes in the sides of the pumpkin.
2) Let the kids color or paint the halves. Sirus decided green was better. :)

3) After they dry poke a hole in the end of each for the pipe cleaner.
4) Fold one end of the pipe cleaner over then take the other end and weave it through your two halves, making sure to line them up the way you want them.

5) Once the pipe cleaner is through the top cut off the excess leaving enough to bend over to make the stem at the top.
6) Give the kids the marker so that they can make their own jack-o-lantern faces.
7) Enjoy

3 comments:

Ratliffs said...

Great idea! Too bad our boys just trashed our egg carton! :( We won't be finished with our new one until after Halloween...got any cute Thanksgiving ideas for egg cartons? :D

Bri said...

I LOVE the tree behind the pumpkins!

Verity said...

WOW--very cute!