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Materials:
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- Jack-O-Lantern, faux or the real deal, approximately 8- to 10-inches in diameter- with eyes, nose, mouth cut out
- 1 sheet yellow construction paper
- Water-proof liner to the inside of the Jack-O-Lantern
- 2 bricks floral foam
- 2 wood pics or 1 wood shish kabob skewer
- 1 bunch bear grass
- 2 bricks floral foam
- 4 to 5 rubberbands
- 2 stems orange germini's (miniature gerbera daisies)
- 3 stems orange gerbera daisies
- 4 stems papyrus
- 1 dozen greening pins or 5 lengths of straight heavy gauge straight wire
- Witches hat
- Half a yard orange decorative ribbon, 1/2 inch wide
- Floral preservative, scissors, pairing knife and clippers
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| Directions:
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Step 1 - Soak the floral foam in water that has been treated with floral preservative.
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Step 2 - Fill the water-proof liner with floral foam and insert it into the pumpkin. Insert 2 wood pics (or cut shish kabob skewers) and insert them partially into the top of the foam. Now set the other brick of foam on top of first piece, inserting it into the wood pics/skewers.
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Step 3 - With a pairing knife, carve the foam that is sticking out of the pumpkin into a cone shape.
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Step 4 - Divide the bear grass into 4 or 5 smaller bunches and rubberband the individual bunches.
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Step 5 - Starting at the rim of the pumpkin, where the foam first juts out of the top of the jack-o-lantern, begin wrapping the bear grass up and around the foam cone. Wrap the bear grass around the foam, tightly, using greening pins as you go, to hold the bear grass in place. (If not using greening pins, cut the straight wire into 3-inch lengths; bend in half- to form a bobbie-pin shape. Use these wire pins in place of greening pins.)
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Step 6 - Repeat step #5 until the entire foam cone is wrapped with bear grass.
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Step 7 - Now set the witch's hat partially over the cone. Pin it in place.
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Step 8 - Cut the papyrus stems approximately 2-inches in length, and insert them into the 'bang' area of the jack-o-lantern (above the eyes). With scissors, cut some of the bangs short and leave some long.
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Step 9 - Insert the gerbera and germini daisies just above the bangs.
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Step 10 - The ribbon gets tied into a bow, as you would tie your shoe, and is attached with a greening pin.
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