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    Grouped together on the mantel, Drac-o'-lantern and tiny winged pals create a Transylvanian scene. Run-of-the-mill pushpins turn into devilish red eyes.

    Vampire Tools and Materials

    Thumbtack or pin
    Small white pumpkin (For a big bite, choose a small pumpkin so the plastic vampire teeth seem huge)
    Miniature saw
    Plastic vampire teeth
    Small red map tacks
    Mouth template 

    Vampire Pumpkin How-To

    1. Print mouth template. Lay template on pumpkin, and poke thumbtack through, all along outline, to transfer design. Cut out with saw; remove excess flesh.
    2. Wedge teeth into hole.
    3. For eyes, pin map tacks onto pumpkin.
    4. Fangs, partycity.com. Map pins, 1/8 inch, in Red; latitudesmapstore.net.

    Bat Tools and Materials

    • Black construction paper
    • Small white pumpkin
    • Hot-glue gun
    • Wing template

    Bat How-To

    1. Print wing template.
    2. Trace onto construction paper and cut out.
    3. Fold down flat ends of wings 1/4 inch, and attach folded edge to pumpkin with hot glue.

     

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    • claudiohernandez
      15 Feb, 2012

      En chile se pueden conseguir los materiales en festday.cl tienen muy buenos precios

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    • mimiywan
      30 Oct, 2011

      This looks so great. I did not have red tipped pins so I hot glue gunned plastic rhinestones we had. Also the fangs were 19cents at my iParty so I bought quite a few. Great idea!

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    • nocents
      20 Oct, 2011

      I had a better idea to save money on buying those fangs. Just make a slit for a mouth and cut the fangs in two and hot glue them to the pumpkin. You'll get twice as many vampire pumpkins that way. Use the tops for one pumpkin and the bottoms for another.

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    • GabrielleG
      13 Oct, 2011

      You don't need to go out of your way to get "map pins". I just used some of the red ball tipped sewing pins, I had ( from JoAnn's).If you really need the map pins, they have them at Office Max.

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    • Plantman
      6 Oct, 2011

      Another fun halloween project is to grow a TickleMe Plant and watch how it moves and closes its leaves and plays dead when Tickled! Search pet TickleMe Plant. Kids love it

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    • Shesfallingdown3
      3 Oct, 2011

      http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/2011Q4/pumpkin-carving-vampire-1011mld.pdf
      Here is the template page, good luck!

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    • laneie
      2 Oct, 2011

      I cannot get the vampire mouth template to load. Ive been trying for several days now!! Love it and want to do for the kids. HELP!!

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    • Michelle_Toglia
      29 Sep, 2011

      daisy18, here is the wing template: http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/2011Q4/pumpkin-carving-bat-wing-1011mld.pdf

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    • daisy18
      23 Sep, 2011

      Cannot locate the small bat wing template, I am very frustrated. Does anyone have a way to get to it?

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