Make a Pumpkin Village [Craft]

Step 1: Carve a hole in the bottom of each pumpkin, scoop out the pulp, and return the cut pieces.

Step 2: Print out these haunted house templates. Re-size on a copier if needed, scaling the images to fit your pumpkins.

Step 3: Cut out stencils as printed on the templates and affix to pumpkins with masking tape. Trace on the designs with a felt-tip pen.

Step 4: Remove stencils, then carefully carve along the drawn lines of the houses’ windows with an X-Acto knife. Fill in the designs using a fine-tip brush and black flat acrylic paint; let dry.  Affix a battery-operated votive candle in the base of each pumpkin with adhesive putty. You can find these in most dollar stores.

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