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Building 8' Tall Pumpkin Sentinels
Plastic Pumpkin, PVC, Tree Limbs, Vines, and Spray Paint
![]() Step 1:Materials needed are plastic pumpkin with a pre-carved face, PVC, black spray paint, tree limbs, paper bags, plastic grocery bags, sprinkler tubing, duck tape, plastic wrap, and a heat gun. | ![]() Step 2:Using the paper bags and duck tape, make long stems on top of each of the pumpkins. | ![]() Step 3:Use paper towels to mask off your pumpkin and spray paint your new stem a dark green color. |
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![]() Repeat this last step for every pumpkin you have. | ![]() Before | ![]() After |
![]() Step 4:Decorate the pumpkin with spray paint. | ![]() Here are how ours turned out. | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() Step 5:Once the spray paint has finished drying, a nice finish that we went with was to paint the inside edges of the eyes, nose, and mouth with black craft paint. | ![]() |
![]() Step 6:Now it is time to make your sentinel body! For this, you are going to need the PVC and sprinkler tubing we mentioned earlier. To start off, make a frame for the body out of PVC, like the one shown above. You can either spray paint it first, or do it after wrapping the frame in plastic. | ![]() *Extra Note*Try putting your pumpkin head onto the PVC frame before going any further to make sure that your design will work! | ![]() Step 7:To create the fingers, we duck taped 4 short pieces of PVC together onto the end of the arm we had created. |
![]() Step 8:Then, using the heat gun, melt the PVC pieces to create knuckles. | ![]() | ![]() Step 9:To create the rib cage, we used sprinkler tubing and lots of duck tape. We decided to go with a simple yet effective look, but you can create however many ribs as you want your prop to have. |
![]() Step 10:Once your ribs are done, wrap it in the plastic wrap. | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() Step 11:Now, use the heat gun again to melt the plastic so that it shrinks around the ribs. Be careful to not burn any holes in the tubing, though! | ![]() Step 12:After it has shrunk, go back over the ribs with spray paint. | ![]() Step 13:For the arms, you will need to collect tree limbs and sticks. |
![]() Step 14:Tape the sticks on the fingers, using plastic grocery bags as reinforcement. | ![]() Your fingers should end up looking something like this. | ![]() Step 15:Now, run sticks down the lengths of the arms, and wrap these in plastic wrap, and use the heat gun just like before. |
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![]() Step 16:Similar to how we did the ribs, spray paint the arms and fingers once you like the outcome. | ![]() | ![]() Step 17:Once you finish with everything, be sure to give your own Pumpkin Sentinel a few finishing touches, and.... You're done! |
![]() End ResultAfter those last finishing touches and getting them set up in the proper area - you're done! |
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