1Prepare the orange paper.

Start out with either:

• A4 or Letter size orange cardstock - two sheets
• 9" x 12" orange construction paper - one sheet

2Make 12 paper strips.

a.)  A4 or Letter size cardstock - cut one sheet into 8 equal strips that are about 1" x 11". Use half of the 2nd sheet to create an additional 4 strips, also about 1" x 11", for a total of 12 paper strips.

b.)  9" x 12" construction paper - cut into twelve 1" x 9" strips.

3Glue 2 pairs of strips together.

Take four paper strips. Grab a pair and glue them together on one end to create a super long strip. Similarly glue the remaining pair of strips to create a second long strip.

4Make a cross with the 2 long strips.

Position the 2 long strips perpendicular to each other and glue them together at the center.

5Glue 4 short strips.

Take four of the eight short strips. Glue them at the 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock positions on the cross.

6Glue 4 more short strips.

Glue the four remaining short strips at the 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock positions.

7Punch a hole at the tips.

Punch a hole close to the tip of each of the twelve paper strips.

8Make a stem.

Cut green construction paper or cardstock into a small rectangle (mine is about 2 x 2.5 inches). Roll this into a cigar shape, with one end a bit smaller than the opposite end. This smaller end shoud be able to fit into the holes you made in the previous step. Glue or tape the the edges of the paper in place.

9Position the stem.

Lift the 1 o'clock strip. Insert the smaller end of the stem from under the hole. Push the stem in until it fits snugly into the hole.

10Put glue on the adjacent strip.

Lift the 2 o'clock strip. Put glue on the area surrounding the hole.

11Bring the 2 strips together.

Bring the 1 o'clock strip with the stem over the 2 o'clock strip. Insert the stem through the hole on the 2 o'clock strip.

12Press to glue in place.

Press on the area around the stem to glue the two strips together.

13Bring the 3rd strip under the stem.

Next, lift the 3 o'clock strip and apply glue around its hole. Similarly bring this strip under first two, inserting the stem through its hole. Press to glue in place.

14Gather the rest under the stem.

Work your way from one adjacent paper strip to the next as shown in Steps 9 to 13 until you've gathered all the paper strips by the stem.

Once you've positioned all the strips under the stem, you will have a pumpkin-looking shape.

15Create tendrils.

Bend a green pipe cleaner on several points along its length to come up with a wavy or curly piece. Cut the piece in half to create two tendrils.

16Place the tendrils.

Carefully insert one end of each tendril into the hole around the stem.