How to stack and paint a black cat pumpkin...

The finished stacked pumpkin cat.

        These stacked pumpkins are painted black and given features that make them look like a Halloween cat. Any doll would love to decorate her front stoop or party table with this feline decoration!

Supply List:

• acrylic paints: black, orange, green, white, grey
• Styrofoam pumpkin blanks: 2, one larger
• novelty ribbon
• toothpick
• white sticky glue
• scrap cardboard
• glitter (optional)
• newsprint 
• masking tape.
  

Step-by-Step Instructions: 

1. Squeeze out tacky craft glue onto a toothpick and poke it into the middle of the top lower pumpkin. Make sure the length of it goes through most of the Styrofoam. 
2. Now coat the upper half of the remaining exposed toothpick with more tacky glue. Push the second smaller Syrofoam pumpkin down on top of the second, forced the toothpick through it's bottom. Let the attached pumpkins dry.
3. Crush a bit of newsprint into the shape of a cat's tail and attach this around the lower pumpkin with masking tape. Keep this contact between the two surfaces clean and neat. Too much tape with distort the ridges in the Styrofoam pumpkin. 
4. Shape ears, witchy hat, eyes and nose from then cardboard and attache these with tacky glue. You may need to hold these in place with tape until they are dry before removing the tape that supports them in place. 
5. Paint the cat shaped pumpkin black after the tape is removed from the tinier attachments.
6. Use a dry brush to apply grey paint to the raised surfaces to accentuate the ridges and other features of the cat.
7. Paint the eyes, nose and hat with orange and green acrylics.
8. Tie the novelty ribbon in a neat little bow around the cat's neck. 

More Painted Pumpkin Crafts:

• Paint a pumpkin to look like a hamburger
• Paint a pumpkin to look like a spider web