Fun Pumpkin Ideas

Hungry Caterpillar
Caterpillar How-Tos1. Arrange Jack Be Little pumpkins in a curved line (best to place them on a soft surface like grass or moss). 2. Use a melon baller to create the eye sockets, and then stick a straight pin through a cranberry and into the center. 3. Use a fruit and vegetable corer to etch mouth shape. 4. Dig two small holes into the head with a pointed object to insert the chenille stem antennae.
Great Ants
Black chenille-stem legs and cranberry eyes bring acorn-squash insects to life. Ant How-Tos1. Connect three acorn squash together with a bamboo skewer. 2. Use a melon baller to create the eye sockets, and then stick a straight pin through a cranberry and into the center. 3. Dig two small holes in the top of the "head" with a pointed object and insert chenille stems for antennae. Twist six chenille stems together and hot-glue to the bottom of middle squash.
Good to Glow
Set a bewitching table with one or more scalloped pumpkin votives in a variety of sizes and designs.
Here's how: Use a grease pencil to draw a scalloped edge around the top of small to medium-size pumpkins. Vary the width of the scallops as shown. With the saw, cut along the lines, remove the top and smooth the edges. Hollow out the pumpkin. Mark holes with a grease pencil, varying the pattern. Drill holes using different size bits (1/8 inch for small, up to 1 inch for larger).
Illuminating Idea
Light the way for trick-or-treating by placing a row of pumpkin lanterns down the stairs.
Here's how: Using a grease pencil, draw abstract leaf like shapes (wider in the middle and narrower at the top and bottom) along the grooves in the pumpkin. Space them about an inch apart and cut out each with craft saw.