No need to be an expert carver. This clever front-yard decoration gets its good looks from simple, easy-to-find props. An old shirt, glove, and wire coat hanger help this hungry fellow devour his skewer of horror d'oeuvres.

Materials

• 1 large pumpkin
• 3 mini pumpkins
• Carving tools
• Used work glove
• Old shirt

• Leaves
• Wire hanger
• Rock
• Skewer
• Black permanent marker

Instructions

1. Carve a pumpkin with an extra-large mouth.

2. Stuff a work glove and one sleeve of an old shirt with leaves.

3. Bend a support for the arm and hand from a wire hanger. Fit one end into the glove and feed the opposite end through the sleeve.

4. Sit the pumpkin on the shirt. Brace the arm from behind with a rock and cover the rest of the shirt with leaves.

5. Push a skewer through three mini pumpkins. Draw a face on each with black permanent marker, then set the skewer in place.

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