Livi's Lorax Pumpkin

Olivia had to make a pumpkin into a character from a book for her school Halloween parade.  She choose to do the Lorax.  We sat down with the book, read it and talked about it. I was able to find a stencil of the Lorax face online.  She cut it out and used glue dots to stick it on.  We also used pipe cleaners and pom poms to make Truffula trees.  I helped her to hot glue those on.  We had a few days before it had to go to school and of course the night before all the stuff started popping off.  The hot glue was not adhering to the pumpkin.  We ended up stapling a lot of the pieces back on.  Someone at the parade said they used pins for the pieces on theirs.  That would have been a better idea!