Making a Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball

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October 28, 2019

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - finished craft You can make this creepy eyeball using a small white pumpkin inside of a bigger warty pumpkin. I used a simple pumpkin carving kit and some acrylic paints. This is a great Halloween craft for all!!

When choosing your pumpkins, make sure your white one is smaller than the orange one. I used a cheap red lipliner to draw in the eyeball veins because it slides on smoothly on the pumpkin surface, but stays on nicely.

Total Time: 70 minutes plus dry time

Yield: 1 eyeball

Supplies:

1 medium warty orange pumpkin
marker
pumpkin carving knife
pumpkin scraper
1 small white pumpkin
measure tape
acrylic paints (blue, teal, gold, black, white)
paintbrushes
tea towel or paper towels
cheap red lipliner

Steps:

Draw a circle on top of the orange pumpkin that's a bit bigger than your small white pumpkin.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - draw a circle on orange pumpkin larger than the small white one

Cut out the circle at a bit of an angle.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - cut out circle at a bit of an angle

Remove this pumpkin lid and set aside.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - remove the lid and set aside

Begin cutting out the flesh of the pumpkin.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - begin removing the inside of the pumpkin

Scoop out the seeds and flesh and place in a bowl. Reserve for another use.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - scoop out the seeds and the flesh

Place the white pumpkin inside, on its side, to make sure it fits. Remove.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - check fit the small white pumpkin

Measure the little pumpkin while it's on its side, then mark that width on the front of the big pumpkin.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - mark the width of the white pumpkin on the orange one

Draw a large eye shape on the pumpkin, using the endpoints you just drew as the corners of the eye. Make sure this eye outline is not bigger than the little white pumpkin.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - draw eye using the marks and making sure that the eyeball is not bigger than the white pumpkin

Cut out the eye.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - cut out the eye

Trim out some of the flesh around the eye opening.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - trim the eye opening

Place the little pumpkin back inside on its side with the smooth rounded side facing the eye opening. Draw a circle around the middle. This will be the pupil to the eyeball. Make sure it's almost touching the top and bottom of the eye.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - replace white pumpkin with the smooth side out, draw a circle for the pupil

Remove the little pumpkin. Paint the circle you just drew blue. This is your eye's iris.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - remove the pumpkin and paint the iris blue

Add some lines of light blue from the center going outward, then do the same with some gold paint.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - add white and gold paint from the center out

Now draw a smaller black circle in the middle. This is the pupil. Let dry completely.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - draw a smaller black circle in the center

Place the little pumpkin back inside and press flush up against the eye opening.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - put smaller pumpkin back inside and push up against the opening

Place a tea towel or some crumpled paper towels behind the little pumpkin so it stays in place. Put the lid back on.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - place a tea towel or crushed paper behind the small pumpkin to keep in place

Draw some red veins in the corners of the eyeball using the red lipliner.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - use lipliner to draw veins

I decided I wanted some reflection on the eye so I painted on 2 little white dots using the back of my paintbrush.

Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball - white dots can be added for reflection

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Making a Spooky Double Pumpkin Eyeball

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