Pumpkin Decorating Contest - Movable Cinderella Carriage

We had a pumpkin decorating contest at work and I decided to make the carriage from Cinderella.

We had to use little pumpkins for the contest so I started out with a typical little orange guy. I would be better if you used a white pumpkin because you could skip the step of painting.
 

 What you need:
A pumpkin
Newspaper 

Paints (I used white, gold, yellow, and blue)

Paint brushes

Fine tip puffy paint (Black)
4 Bottle caps
Clay (not required)
Glue (I used a combo of tacky craft glue and hot glue)
A Hot Wheels toy (one with a flat top, I used a van)
A My Little Pony toy (or any small horse toy)
and Thin twine

Lay down your news paper before you start anything. I painted the pumpkin white overall and added the designs in the grooves of the pumpkin, for the window, and some filigree with just acrylic paints and the fine tip squeezable puffy paint in black for outlining.

 

While the paint was drying I molded some clay to go around the bottle caps, this step is not necessary but I thought it looked a little better than just a naked bottle cap. Wrap strips of not too thinly rolled clay around the cap, and secure with some glue. I painted the clay and bottle caps in white as well as painted on some spokes and use a little glittery gold paint between what would be the wheel and the tire haha.

Then take your Hot Wheels, and it is very important that it has a somewhat flat top so that the pumpkin doesn't wobble off and is stable, and you want to paint this as well. I painted it a pale blue for contrast against the white pumpkin and wheels, but you can do white if you don't want to reveal too much that there's a car under there.

I wasn't too worried about the looks of the car, because I didn't figure that would be scrutinized too much.

The next step after everything has had some time to dry is to start gluing. Attach the pumpkin to the painted Hot Wheels and wait for that to dry before continuing.

Then glue the wheels to the pumpkin at its base and to the Hot Wheels car if you can. The clay on the wheels should be only very slightly touching the "ground" or table surface. When that is completely dry make sure that everything is secure and add some hot glue where needed.

I then molded the clay a little so that it wasn't touching the "ground" anymore so that there was no friction and the Hot Wheels could roll freely.

If you are happy with your result take out your My Little Pony, or horse toy.

Then take a piece of the thin twine and wrap it around the neck of the horse, and tie a bow with the ends around the stem of your pumpkin.

And Viola! You have an adorable pumpkin carriage inspired by Cinderella!

I will update with winners of the competition and whether I place or not!
(I WON! - I mean of course...duh!)

This is always a big deal in our office for the Halloween party.