Jennifer Hansen, from the Home Depot, showed us how to make this unique yard art.
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Materials:
Corrugated roofing material
Tin snips (or scissors that can cut through metal)
Heavy gauge wire
Metal primer paint
Paint
Gloves
Trace the shape of the pumpkin onto the metal.
There will be small sharp edges when you’re cutting. Be sure to wear gloves. When you’re finished, you can smooth the rough edges by simply scraping it against a rough edge like a concrete wall or sidewalk.
Cut smaller leaves. The leaves look best when they are bent a bit to give them some shape and definition.
With a nail, pound a hole through the leaf and at the top of the pumpkin where the stem is.
Paint everything with primer and then with the colored paint.
You can paint the pumpkin solid orange or paint a jack-o-lantern face on it.
String the wire through both holes to connect the leave to the pumpkin.
Leave quite a bit of wire so that you can wind it around anything round. It could be a wooden spoon handle of a broom pole. Then shape the wire so that it looks like tendrils growing at the top of the pumpkin.
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