The Great Pumpkin: 4 Elegant Halloween Crafts

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Black Magic

A coat of shiny black paint gives elegant carved pumpkins a gothic twist. To make carving easier, first be sure to scoop out the pumpkin's flesh until the shell is about a third to a half inch thick. Spray-paint the pumpkin, trace real leaf shapes onto its surface with chalk, then cut them out with a pumpkin-carving knife.

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