Don’t have the heart to cut up that perfect pumpkin that took you hours to unearth? No problem. Here’s a fast easy way to decorate it without ever breaking out a carver.

You’ll need:

What to do:

  1. Wrap fresh pumpkin with piece of toile fabric. Tie top with ribbon or excess toile.
  2. Adhere jewels on toile and ribbon, using hot-glue gun.
  3. Adhere plastic spiders randomly around pumpkin.

Project used with permission of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., from Scary Scenes for Halloween

by Jill Williams Grover, © 1999 by Chapelle Ltd., a Sterling/Chapelle book

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