How to Make a Heffalump Jack-O-Lantern

Halloween is fast approaching, and we all know what that means: Jack-O-Lantern carving! Choosing a design is perhaps the most difficult part of the process. When a scary face is too humdrum for your discriminating tastes, the solution is simple: carve your pumpkin into a likeness of Lumpy the Heffalump, just like the one from 2005's Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie.


Materials
- 1 medium sized pumpkin
- 2 green leaves
- Several blades of grass
- 1 big knife
- 1 dry erase marker
- 1 spoon
- Scotch tape
- 1 miniature saw (available in even the most basic pumpkin carving kit, for sale in any supermarket or drugstore this time of the year)


Step One - Get Them Guts Out

Since the stem is going to be Lumpy's trunk, we can't cut the top off to get all the gooey guts out like we normally would with any other Jack-O-Lantern. Instead, cut a square out of the bottom with a big old knife.

Now stick your handy dandy spoon in the newly-carved hole and start scraping. Get all of that stringy orange mess into the trash, but make sure to save the seeds for later roasting...

Yummy!

Step Two - Draw, Draw, and Draw Some More


It's time to get out your dry erase marker (just in case you mess up) and draw Lumpy's eyes and eyebrows.


Step Three - Cut That Baby Up

Get your trusty miniature saw and follow your lines. Careful, precision is key!


Step Four - Leaves, Grass, and Scotch Tape

Tape the leaves to each side of your pumpkin to give Lumpy some ears.

Then tape the grass to the top to give him some hair.


Step Five - Show Off Your Lumpy Pumpy!


Put a candle into Lumpy through the opening in the back and place him in a location that will allow for maximum exposure. Enjoy!