Comments on: Paper Mache Halloween Pumpkins and a Centaur –

By: April

April — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:59:53 +0000

stumbled upon these, and i am soooooo liking everything you guys do, great work- i am gonna give the pumpkins a try i think. Thanks so much for the how tos ? cant wait to get started!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:37:17 +0000

This is great! I know it’s two years after the original post but I can’t wait to get started on these with friends for our Halloween party. Thanks!

By: Jonni

Jonni — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:52:15 +0000

I think the basic technique that is shown on the Stolloween website. Check it out – that’s a great site.

By: John

John — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:15:50 +0000

how do we make those pumpkins

By: Debbie Vandeventer

Debbie Vandeventer — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:15:49 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS, LAURIE!! I hope you will post lots of pictures of your life-size, free-standing witch as you progress. I am intrigued with the use of baby wipes and I am going to try them!! I can’t wait to see the finished product!!

By: Jade

Jade — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:06:28 +0000

This is paper mache halloween…check out this site!

By: Jonni

Jonni — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:42:50 +0000

Great ideas! Thanks for telling us – your pumpkins should be very strong, with the reinforcing cloth. And I like the idea of using the bubble wrap to stuff the bags.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:13 +0000

I made one of these last week, but I put bubble wrap inside the garbage bag…you need way less because it has bulk & can still be compressed with the jute rope to make the ridges because it has give…with this technique I did not have to build up the ridges with the paper mache clay mixture…I just pulled really tight each time I went around & wrapped the rope around the tied garbage bag top before going around again…leave a tail when starting so you can tie it off when finished wrapping…I did not put tape over the jute rope after wrapping because I wanted deep ridges to work into. I also mache’d with a layer of muslin fabric (scraps I had around, ripped into strips so they aren’t blunt edges) to give it a thick durable layer….that way I’d need to do less paper layers for it to be strong.

By: Joanne Gennarella

Joanne Gennarella — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:56:20 +0000

OKAY Laurie – like everyone else I really dig your pumpkins (ha), and will have to try my hand at one or two. HALLOWEEN time is near, and I love Halloween. My take on a quick read of your instructions is that you take a grocery or similar brown bag – fill it with newspaper lightly so you can rope off your pumpkin ridges with heavy yarn, pulling tightly. Correct – so far? Then you do two rounds of paper mache with elmer’s, flour and salt. When that is dry, you take your baby wipes (what brand – by the way?) and drape then over the cut out features and make a stem with those also – and wahlah a really cool pumpkin! Fill me in on what I missed – please. Thanks.

By: Averi

Averi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:08:44 +0000

These are AWSOME! I need to make a centaur.