Garden Lantern Of Pumpkin. The Fall Craft Project

If you have a small green pumpkin or a large squash  you can turn it into a nicely looking lantern.
The lantern consist of 2 parts, they are a lantern body in a tube shape and a cone top.

Clean out the tube body.
Carve a pattern imitating a garden lantern.
Use the squash end part for the top. Clean out this part too and make a hole on top to let the candle's heat go out.
Decorate the top part with some simple cuts made with the U or V knives.

Build a lantern by bringing the body and the top together.
To light up the lantern take off the top, place a fire (candle) inside the body and bring the top detail back.
Be sure that you left a hole to let the heat out.

Enjoy fall crafting!

Tools used in the project:
U and V knives to decorate a top detail
Thai knife to carve a parten
Paring knife to cut vegetable
Melon baller to clean out pumpkin and squash

                     

 

 

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Disney Themed Food Idea. Apple Carving Gifts

Two dozens of the cute Disney themed apples made a kids party in the playschool.

 

I carved more than 20 images of the different characters, they are Winny the Pooh, Stich, Mickey, Pumba, Olaf, Minion and the others.

 

Each apple is packed into a plastic wrap to be prevented from browning and then into a gift wrap.

 

 



Disney themed apple carving gifts



Apples are packed and ready to be gifted

More Disney themed fruit displays:
Chip-n-Dale Fruit Idea
Halloween Disney Garnish From Carrot
Snow White Watermelon

Fruit Sculptures: New Ideas 2014, Photo Album

Photo album with new ideas for fun fruit sculptures and Baby Shower's fruit platters. Fruit models of Gummi Bears, Giraffe, Teddy Bear, Minion, Thomas the Tank Engine, Mickey Mouse, 9 sculptures in total with description of materials to use.

Written in English and Russian languages. PDF Download

Price: $4.75

 

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Bear Head Pumpkin Sculpture

Roaring bear's head carved of pumpkin

3D pumpkin project

The wild nature has became a theme for my fruit display. Can you imagine this roaring bear's head placed on the top of a watermelon? And served to a fruit buffet? I did that :)

Sculptured of pumpkin this bear head has been designed for a birthday party of a man, a lover of hunting. The watermelon design is made in hunting theme too.

The bear head has been carved with Ray Villafane Pumpkin Carving Tools which are loops in different sizes and shapes. Each carving artist should have them. The Ray Villafane's 3-D Pumpkin Carving Tutorials DVD will help you to master the pumpkin art.

Hunting themed fruit display with the bear head pumpkin sculpture

                   



The bear head's sculpture in the process, made with Ray Villafane's loop tools

 

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