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Dancing Pumpkin
By Beatrice Bachrach Perri

A quick and easy craft project to make in class or as a take home assignment.

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pumpkin puppet
What you need:

  • pencil
  • orange paper
  • black paper
  • scissors
  • rubber bands
  • tape
  • hanger
  • glue
  • marker


How to make it:

  1. Draw two pumpkins on orange paper. Cut them out.
  2. Draw four shoes and four mittens on black paper. Cut them out.
  3. Cut five rubber bands for arms, legs, and a hanger. Tape them to one pumpkin shape. Tape a shoe to each leg and a mitten to each arm. Tape the hanger at the top.
  4. Glue the other pumpkin, two shoes, and two mittens over the rubber-band ends on the first set.
  5. Use a marker to draw a face.
  6. Hold the hanger and make your pumpkin dance, or hang it up and watch it bob and bounce.