How to Decorate Pumpkins With Office Supplies
If you're looking for a way to add a hint of autumn to the workplace, you can decorate pumpkins to display in an office reception area, in the break room or on a desk using a variety of common office supplies. Those who want to join in preparing for Halloween or celebrate a change of seasons can add their personal touches. Look through desk drawers or supply cabinets for different office supplies to turn pumpkins into original works of art.
Things You'll Need
- 3 pumpkins, varying sizes
- Permanent markers
- Paper clips
- Colored tacks
- Date stamps
- Black ink pad
- Rubber bands
- Correction fluid
- Tags
- Packaging tape
- Shredded paper
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Instructions
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Use a black permanent marker to draw scary eyes, a nose and a mouth with jagged teeth on the pumpkins. Carve the features out with a sharp knife. Make a round top around the stem, and clean out the inside.
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Attach strips of packaging tape around the largest pumpkin in a mummy-wrapped style. Do not cover the eyes, nose and mouth. Use a marker to write Halloween-themed words and phrases on the tape, such as "Boo," "Happy Halloween" or "Trick or Treat." Apply bits of white correction tape in a random fashion around the tape edges to give the pumpkin an eerie effect.
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Bend large and small metal paper clips in the shape of eyebrows and insert them into the middle-sized pumpkin above the eyes. Insert colored tacks on each side of the nose to add freckles. Use a hot glue gun to attach a bit of shredded paper on the top of the pumpkin to give it "hair." Add a shipping tag to the crown of the pumpkin and write "Happy Halloween" or "Welcome Fall" with markers.
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Adjust the date on the date stamp to Oct. 31 (and current year). Stamp the date in a random fashion all around the smallest pumpkin. With a black marker, draw a few bats, spiders and other Halloween-themed images. Stretch rubber bands and wrap a number of them around the pumpkin.
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Tips & Warnings
Use more than three pumpkins to create a pumpkin caterpillar centerpiece decorated with office supplies.
Ask office members to submit pumpkin-decorating ideas using office supplies. Take a vote; the winner keeps the pumpkin.
Keep pumpkin-carving tools out of reach in the event the office is located where there are children.
