Maximum Living Magical Pumpkin

October 25, 2007

When you were a child did you ever wish you could figure out how to turn a pumpkin into a Cinderella Coach, or how to turn the mice into coachmen? Well, if you follow the directions below, you can turn an ordinary pumpkin into a Cinderella Coach centerpiece for your table this holiday season. It's easy and fun, but best of all, it's a project that's also fun for the kids…and yes, that means the kid in you!

Supplies:
Glue Gun
Gold Glitter
Gold Spray paint
Gold Glitter spray
Gold, Orange, Silver fine dusting glitter
Glue
Two inch brush paint brush
1 strand fall holiday garland
1 package plastic colored faceted jewels
4 large (approx. 8" wood discs)
1 wood square platform (just a little bigger than the base of your pumpkin)
1 (1/8th to ¼") inch dowel
Drill
Bowl
Water
Cookie sheet
Wax paper
1 Cinderella Pumpkin (an actual variety you can now buy at your local farmers market.

Directions:
Take your cookie sheet, cover with wax paper, take your pumpkin and set it on the wax paper. Next take your Elmer's glue and mix it in the bowl, one part water to 2 parts glue. Brush glue on pumpkin in downward strokes, top to bottom. Immediately sprinkle on fine sanding glitter completely covering the glue. It is ok to mix color or sprinkle color over color, but never brush glitter once it has been applied to the glue.

Drill out a hole in the center of each wood disc ¾ of the way through, drill the hole the same size as the wood dowel, now cut the dowel into even lengths, just wider than the width of the wood platform. Glue the dowel ends into the wood disc holes and then glue the platform onto the dowels, (the dowels actually act as the axel to the wheels). Now spray paint the wheels, platform, axels with gold spray, once dry spay again with gold glitter spray.

Take holiday garland and spray with gold spray and gold glitter spray. While this dries take your jewels and glue one in the center of each wheel. Once pumpkin has dried take and place it on the platform, make sure it is on the opposite side of where you have glued the axels. Next wrap the base of the pumpkin with the garland and sprinkle then whole project with loose gold glitter.

If you want to add a few Cinderella horses to the front of the coach for display, go ahead, but you don't have to. Set in the middle of your table and in soft light or candle light you can watch the magic of the pumpkin.

Have a wonderful holiday and remember…YOU CAN DO IT! Randy