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Make your own candy pumpkin dispenser. It's a fun and easy instructable, but do be careful when carving that scary face! I challenge you to make this even better by adding two or more pumpkins on top of each other and making sure there is a lot of candy for every trick-or-treater. :)

Step 1: Materials

For the pumpkin:

Carving set
Knife
Whiteboard marker or a non-permanent marker
Cutting board
Potato peeler (to remove the pumpkin peel if necessary)
Fairy lights

Optional: screws, stapler, clay to make a tongue etc.

For the dispenser

Cardboard
Rubber bands
Toothpicks
Hot glue
Ruler
Scissors/cutting knife

and of course candy!

Step 2: Carving the Pumpkin

A good pumpkin shape for this project would have a bit elongated shape rather than round.

1. Draw the pumpkin face with the whiteboard marker.

2. Start by removing the insides

3. Start carving the face.

Be careful!

Step 3: The Dispenser

Start off by measuring the inside of the pumpkin.
See the second photo for the measurements of the different parts of the dispenser. (The longer A-piece is not really needed to be longer than the other 3 A pieces. The dispenser is not too heavy and can be held in place by toothpicks, no leg support is needed).

Step 4:

3.Glue the all the A pieces together to get a pyramid shaped object

4. Glue the B pieces together with B2 in the middle. The whole is where the screw will be anchored.

Step 5:

5. Add one toothpick in the A part, and the second in the B part. Make sure to put the toothpicks at a distance at which the rubber band will be relaxed. Secure toothpicks with glue.

6. Do the same on the other side. Here I had to cut out a whole in the longer A-piece, but if you make all A-pieces the same length you just have to repeat step 5 above.

7. When you push on part B, the rubber bands should stretch = dispensers opens, and when you let go, part B should slide back to its original position closing the dispenser.

8. If needed, add one more rubber band holding part A and part B together, but not inhibiting the sliding movement of part B.