Perfect miniature decorations for your dollhouse or room box.  Equally as cute on top of your computer for a little holiday spirt.  Don't waste money on fresh pumpkins... store your decorations away for Halloween.

Depending on the project you select, you'll need
Orange, black, brown, green, white, and or pink clay
Green wire for the project featured (arms)
Straight pin - you'll use both ends
3 beads - 2 eyeballs and 1 spare (to replace the one you will probably drop and lose)

Here's a happy little pumpkin which we will photograph in steps:

Roll a small round ball of orange clay.  You can use Sculpy, FIMO, or a mixture of any polymer clays you have available to you. Make a mouth with a pin, pulling it open in the middle.  Turn the pin upside down - the flat pin ends finish off the corners of the mouth nicely.  Add a nose and don't forget to make nostrils with the pin end.

Add 2 seed beads for eyes. Roll a thin string of black clay and bend small pieces into glasses (optional).

Make an indent where you will place a small piece of brown for the stem. You can use any tool you would like, a standard pencil works nicely.  I like to apply some pressure and very lightly "squish" the pumpkin so it has a more natural shape than a perfect ball.

Hands - make 2 thin, flat oval shapes.  With the straight end of the pin, press down where fingers would be to separate the clay.  With the flat end of the pin, press lightly to make fingernails.

Bend some wire for arms.  Bend any shape, and press into both the body and gently into the hands.  To better secure the wire in the body, you may want to make a small loop at the end of the wire.  The hands will be too thin to insert a loop of wire - just press the wire in carefully and wrap as best you can around it.  If your wire comes out after baking, you can use a small drop of super glue to reattach.