Vintage Style Folk Art Black Cat Halloween Bucket (made from a $1 plastic pumpkin)
Last year, I transformed a trio of styrofoam pumpkins from the dollar store into paper mache folk art.
- 1 blown-plastic pumpkin treat bucket, any color
- Newspaper
- Mod Podge or Paper Mache paste
- Ear template (download HERE)
- Heavy card stock or a manilla folder for the ears
- pencil and scissors
- Paint brushes of various sizes
- Black acrylic paint
- Assorted acrylic paints and/or paint pens
- Awl or bamboo skewer
- Heavy black wire (I used a 16 gauge flat aluminum wire)
- Wire cutters
- Needle-nose pliers
- 1 piece dowel
- hand saw
- drill
Step 2: Trace ear pattern on to heavy card stock or a manilla folder. Cut out, then fringe ends as shown in picture to allow for the ear to curve. Set in place on the pumpkin (align behind the holes for the handle so that when the new handle is attached, it won’t interfere with the ears), then attach with your adhesive. Paper mache over the ears. Set aside to dry.
Please ignore the fact that the pumpkin is already black. Truth be told, I forgot to add the ears during the initial paper mache stage. |
Step 7: With wire cutters, cut an 18″ segment of wire. Thread through the dowel.
Step 8: Thread one end of the wire through one of the small holes in the top of the pumpkin. Go in through the outside, and back up through the large opening. Repeat with opposite end of wire on opposite side of pumpkin. Once you have the dowel handle centered, wrap the loose end of each wire once around itself to secure. Trim, then crimp with needle-nose pliers.
Step 9: Paint dowel and touch up any remaining areas.
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