Halloween Cardboard Jack O' Lantern

by idkman in Craft > Cardboard

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Halloween Cardboard Jack O' Lantern

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In this Instructable I will be showing you how to make a 3D cardboard pumpkin sculpture.

Supplies

You will need:

Hot Glue

Glowforge

Cardboard

Hot Glue

Box Cutter

Spray Paint (Black and Orange)

Cut Cardboard Out

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You will need to cut out the cardboard so that it will fit inside the glowforge. Then you need to program the glowforge to cut out the circles, increasing by 1/2 an inch each cut. Print 2 of each size.

Glue the Cardboard

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You will then need to glue the cardboard together with hot glue progressively gluing larger and larger pieces, when you get to as big as you want to go then you glue the 2 halves together.

Spray Paint

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Spray paint the sphere orange, do as many coats as you feel necessary.

Cut Out Eyes and Spray Paint

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Cut out cardboard eyes and mouth then spray paint them as many coats as you feel necessary. Hot Glue them to the orange cardboard. You will then need to cut the bottom of the cardboard off so there is a flat side that it can rest on, I used a band saw but it doesn't really matter what you use. There you have it a DIY cardboard