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Easy Owl Halloween Pumpkin

Ingredients

  • 1 pumpkin pulp and seeds removed from the bottom (just cut a hole in the bottom big enough for your hand, but reserve the piece you cut out)
  • pencil
  • sunflower seeds use the ones from the snack aisle, they're bigger, and not the ones for birds
  • hot glue gun with glue sticks
  • 2 craft sticks or better, 4 pointed flat bamboo skewers
  • a battery-powered pumpkin light
  • a stick from your yard, to use as a perch

Instructions

  • Hand-draw two circles for the eyes and an upside-down triangle for the beak.
  • Cut out the eyes and beak.
  • Working a few seeds at a time, glue the sunflower seeds around the eye holes, beginning with the outer circle first. Then add the inner circle, overlapping slightly with the outer row.
  • Cut each craft stick to be about 1 1/2" long and stick into the pumpkin for the ears and two feet. Leave about 3/4"of the stick protruding from the pumpkin for the ears and 1/2" for the feet.
  • Hot glue sunflower seeds onto the craft stick pieces. For the ears, glue 4 seeds at 45 degree angles, then one last seed at the top, making a point. For the feet, glue 2 seeds at 45 degree angles, then one last seed at the tip.
  • Place light on the base of the pumpkin and lower the pumpkin down onto it.
  • Place the stick below the feet as a perch.
  • Enjoy your work of art!