| INSTRUCTIONS: |
| 1. Cut one 4" STYROFOAM ball in half. Glue the half ball into the pot. |
| 2. Glue the decorative braid around the cuff of the pot. |
| 3. Using a pencil, mark the pumpkin striations on each of the pumpkins. With your fingers, press the striations to make them deeper. (This can also be done by using the serrated bread knife to make the indentations more pronounced.) Round any sharp edges with your fingers. |
| 4. Use the doweling to make a hole from the top of the pumpkin to the bottom. Repeat with all the pumpkins. |
| 5. Glue the doweling into the STYROFOAM in the pot and set aside to dry. |
| 6. Cut a rectangle from the orange fabric, making sure that the fabric fits around the pumpkin. Glue the back seam. Repeat this with all of the pumpkins. |
| 7. With a needle and dental floss, sew a running stitch around the bottom edge of the orange material, and pull to gather tightly at the bottom of the pumpkin. Tie to secure. There will be an opening at the center of the gathered material. Repeat this procedure at the top of the pumpkin. |
| 8. To accent the pumpkin striations, use a craft needle and heavy orange thread. Start at the top hole, go through the hole, then up and outside the striation line, and back down into the top hole. Do this with one long thread until all of the lines have been accented. |
| 9. Tie or sew the end of the thread at the bottom or top hole. |
| 10. Glue on the felt or ultrasuede facial features, such as the nose, mouth, and eyebrows. Glue in the eyes. Repeat this pumpkin making procedure with all the pumpkins. When all are complete, place the largest pumpkin on the doweling, so the pumpkin rests on the terra cotta pot. Glue in place. |
| 11. Put on the next largest pumpkin and glue in place. Repeat until the smallest pumpkin is on the doweling at the top. |
| 12. At the top, add a natural stem that you have painted green. Glue in place. |
| 13. Cover half of a pipe cleaner with floral tape. Coil and stretch. Glue on a couple of silk leaves to the coiled vine and to the stem. |
| 14. Glue the vines to the bottom area of the largest pumpkin, letting them hang over the terra cotta pot. Fill in any areas around the vines with green excelsior. |
| 15. Tie orange ribbons around the places where the pumpkins rest on top of one another. Add ribbons to the large vines. |
