It's the Great Instructables Pumpkin Hand, Sunbanks

On Halloween night, the Great Instructables Pumpkin Hand rises from his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of digital patches to all the children.

Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.

I've learned there are three things you don't discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.

-Linus

And another noteable quoteable from the more stable half of the female Core 2 Duo is www.instructables.com/member/Sunbanks/  Sunbanks: "He'll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch and he respects sincerity."

Riding shotgun is www.instructables.com/member/Lithium+Rain/ Lithium Rain: "I wouldn't want to be accused of taking part in a rumble." or "If you try to hold my hand, I'll slug you!"

Oh Great Instructables Pumpkin Hand, where are you?  If you build it, everyone will come from miles around to revel in its awesomesauce.

Step 1 Take notes...

So I was relaxing in my www.instructables.com/id/kelseymhs-High-Order-Derivative-Common-Sensible-S/ clown shoes enjoying my tacos made with genetically engineered and irradiated corn and thought of this project.  They have square watermelons but nothing yet on the market for altered vegetables/fruits that would serve this purpose. 

If you have ever tried to carve a pumpkin; besides the dangerous and sharp tools used to etch the surface of the gourd, there is the danger of it turning into a fetid composting biomass if you do not maintain the proper environment to cure it.

We turn to our friend papier mache to construct our Great Instructables Pumpkin Hand since truly organic Instructables Hand Pumpkins did not make it to market due to last season's early frost and the California wildfires which decimated the crops. 

Some construction options to skin the pumpkin are to foam it with expanded spray foam insulation, pressed recycled plastic bags, fiberglass and resin, wood and spit, steampunk copper-brass or dystopian brushed metals.  Anything can be used for the base if it has the shape you want to cover, plastic bottles, soda cans, boxes, balloons, carved styrofoam packaging, etc.

We are just going to reach into the paper recycling bin to grab some cardboard and newspaper to do our papier mache.

You should have some common stuff around:

kids glue
water
cardboard
newspaper torn into 2 inch wide strips

stapler or tape
scissors
utility knife
mixing bowl for glue solution

Comments

[imshanedulong]

This is cool, but there is a COOLER way. You could probably shape a pumpkin by using twine in the right places while it is growing!

[caitlinsdad]

 It would be fun to see if anyone could grow a real Instructables pumpkin hand but it may be easier to shape the Instructables Robot head.  Way cooler if you could alter the DNA to make it grow that way.  Good luck.

[imshanedulong]

Thanks!

[Tape-structable]

I actually thought it was a real pumpkin from the first few pictures. I was guessing you used a plexiglas mold like those people with the square watermelons.

Great job!

[caitlinsdad]

Thanks, I'm sure someone has the technology to do this to a real pumpkin.  It was too fun of an idea to wait all year to see if I could grow it for real.  Maybe you could give it a shot and try some embossed veggies or something.

[Bartboy]

Candle-Paper Mache?

Hmmmmm..............

[caitlinsdad]

 There are some borate solutions to flame-proof paper products like they do for blown-in attic insulation.

[imshanedulong]

Use something BATTERY powered.

[red-king]

 that's boring. use open flame for more awesome. you want more awesome.

[caitlinsdad]

 Gas, you gotta cook with gas...

[red-king]

 definitely.

[bounty1012]

lmao.

[Joe Martin]

Took me a while to realise what the hand was all about untll I went to the top of the page!

Oh and isn't this another thing for kiteman to add to the list of things he has been now, haha!

5*

[caitlinsdad]

 I think ubiquitous would be the proper term to use.

[Sunbanks]

I like this, it looks cool and is pretty much totally awesome :D 

[mg0930mg]

Awesome!