By Isabell Macrina
Hometown Weekly Staff
While Halloween may be over, November is still fall and full of warm, autumnal colors needing more décor. The people at Walpole Public Library wanted to help create decorations to keep the fall season going while utilizing what they already had in their possession, so they up-cycled old books!
Everyone gathered in the main room of the library and picked out an old book, that already had the covers gone and weren’t in any condition to be kept or read. Kurt, the librarian, handed out the template and showed how to trace it on the pages and cut a few at a time. The pages were cut into round, slightly oblong pages and then folded together over the spine. They glued it together so they rounded out to make a pumpkin-appearing shape, and fanned out the pages so it was more even. Next, using pipe cleaners and wires, they shaped stems and vines from the middle and glued on felt leaves. Some people were happy leaving the pumpkins the off-white of old book pages, but others went out the back with a can of orange spray paint and covered it in that bright pumpkin orange. Everyone left with a lovely little pumpkin that wouldn’t rot away as the seasons changed, and that they made with their own two hands.
