To know our family is to know that all of our children are very familiar with how to use real power tools. They have been using band saws, a drill press, chain saws, jig saws, hand drills.......since they were about 3 years old. We are not sexist in this family. Equal opportunity for tool usage has been given to our daughter along with her two older brothers. So.....when it comes to carving a pumpkin, why do it the hard way? By incorporating power tools, things go a lot faster and I think you can be just as creative without all of those fancy etching and carving tools!
Here's how we did it. My daughter decided how big she wanted the eyes, nose and mouth. Based on that, we were able to choose the appropriate drill bits or hole saw.
Then my daughter decided we needed to add some color so we painted the "stripes" of the pumpkin. She picked out the colors and the order in which we painted them.
No pumpkin is complete without some crazy pipe-cleaners! I twisted the pipe-cleaners around a pencil, put a dab of hot glue on the tip and then added a pom pom.
Another couple holes drilled and our "creature" has antenna!
Of course, no "bumble bee attacked by a unicorn" would be complete without wings. I used white pipe cleaners (two for each wing) and twisted them into wing shapes.
I put glue on these pipe cleaners then I pressed them into a sheet of wax paper.
Next, I dabbed glue on the top side of the pipe cleaner wings and pressed another sheet of wax paper on top.
I trimmed the wax paper around the wings.
We drilled another hole and added the two wings.
Here's our scary "bumble bee attacked by a unicorn"!
Oh! Can't forget that a bumble bee has to have a stinger!
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." -Mary Lou Cook
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