INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cut the craft pumpkin in half with a serrated knife or a saw, if you
have one.

2. Find something round that’s the same size or slightly larger in
diameter than the pumpkin (a salad bowl works well), and use it to
trace 5-6 circles onto corrugated cardboard. Cut the circles out, and
hot glue them into a stack. This will be your hamburger patty.

3. Trace a couple of smaller circles onto white foam board, and cut
them out. Use red acrylic paint to turn them into tomato slices. If
you don’t have paint on hand, grab a few markers from your back-
to-school stash and draw the details instead of painting.

4. Cut three or four imperfect circles out of dark green craft foam sheets.

These will be the pickles, so size them accordingly. Cut the same
number of slightly smaller light green foam circles. Use a hole punch
or your scissors to snip a few small holes into them to represent the
seeds. Hot glue the light green circles on top of the dark green ones.

5. Cut a square of yellow foam for the cheese. It should be large
enough to slightly hang over the edge of the hamburger patty for a
melty look.

6. Cut a couple large pieces from your green cardstock shaped
roughly like blunt hearts. Crinkle each piece a bit to give them a
texture like lettuce. Fold the narrower ends into a pleat just like
you see in skirts or dresses to give the lettuce leaves a bit of height
and stability.

7. Assemble the hamburger by hot gluing the various pieces
together. Lindsay Ponta created the DIY and lifestyle website Shrimp Salad
Circus in 2009 to inspire busy women to live perfectly imperfect
creative lives. She lives in Silver Spring. Find easy DIYs and recipes at
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