Make a Man-Eating Plant for Halloween!

I began with a small white artificial pumpkin. I didn’t have to use white, but I though it would make it easier to paint. 

My little pumpkins were solid styrofoam. The larger ones were hollow, but all of them were cut nearly in half like above. The insides of both of them got a coat of red acrylic paint.

My pumpkins, both large and small got a outside paint treatment that kind of make them look like little watermelons. 

While trying to paint the inside of my larger pumpkins it helped to prop them open with a stick or in this case, a golf tee.  

I cut white golf tees to the desired size for the teeth in my plants. 

I used an exacto knife to cut a tiny hole for each tooth. I put a tiny bit of hot glue in each hole and then stuck one of my golf tee teeth into each hole.  

For my largest pumpkin I used this metal piece I found near the rebar at the Home Depot. I thought I would just use a piece of rebar, but I felt the large base on this would support my largest plant better. I wrapped the piece in green duct tape. 

I used a large urn for the base. I filled the bottom of the urn with Loctite Tite Foam and styrofoam. I set my metal piece down beneath the styrofoam, anchored in the insulating foam.  

Smaller pumpkins were put on dowels for stems. A little bit of hot glue secured the dowels into the pumpkins and then I painted the dowels.  

It was time to start planting my plant!  

Don’t get too close or you might get bit!  

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