Crafts from pumpkin, or Another life of an orange vegetable

There are many varieties of pumpkin: spherical, conical, bottle. All of them are good material for creativity. In our article there is information on how to make interesting hand-made pumpkin crafts, photos of finished products and lots of positive emotions with your own hands! Watch, recharge with inspiration and join the creative process with us.

Sugar vase

An excellent addition to the overall design of the home can be crafts from pumpkins in the form of decorative vases. Believe me, this is not just beautiful, but very original and stylish. In order to make a pumpkin vase, you will need a round pumpkin, a plastic bottle, decoupage varnish-glue, sugar.

At the pumpkin, remove the top with the tail, with a spoon, clean the seeds and a little pulp. For a PET bottle, cut off the bottom. Insert this “glass” into the pumpkin. Smear the surface of the vegetable with varnish-glue, sprinkle with sugar and leave to dry. Now it remains only to pour water into a vase and put a bunch of autumn flowers. A beautiful composition is ready to decorate your home.

How pleasant it is to have a romantic dinner on a terrace or in the gazebo on a warm autumn evening. Candles in pumpkin candlesticks can be a great attribute of this event. Performing them will take only a few minutes, and the result will pleasantly surprise you and your loved one. In order to make crafts from pumpkins, you need small ripe fruits, candles, a knife, fresh flowers and leaves. Cut and clean the core of the vegetable, insert a candle into the hole. Decorate the cut with small flowers or foliage. Candlesticks look romantic in autumn.

For kids, you can make pumpkin crafts in the form of figures of people and animals. All of them will become the heroes of the puppet theater, the basis of which will also be this vegetable. The work is painstaking, but the result will delight the kids.

To make a puppet theater, take a large pumpkin, cut two through holes on it (on the front of the vegetable and on the back). Thoroughly clean the pulp of the fetus and the core. Hook the “curtain” from the piece of fabric inside the pumpkin. Everything, the theater is ready.

To make actors for pumpkin stage, you need small fruits of different shapes. They need to be pricked on wooden or plastic sticks. Faces can be painted directly on the fruits with acrylics or tempera. As an option, you can draw muzzles on paper, cut and stick on pumpkins. For heroes, you can make costumes and hats from improvised material: shreds of fabric, wrapping paper, ribbons.

Pumpkin crafts such as this theater with actors will become a favorite toy not only for kids, but also for all family members.

Halloween

Pumpkin lanterns are a traditional attribute of the festival of evil spirits. To do it yourself, you need only a sharp knife, a candle, and, in fact, the vegetable itself. In the fetus, cut off the part with the tail and clean out the core. On the pumpkin peel, apply a drawing (ghost, face, spider, ornaments) and cut it along the contour. Turn the pumpkin upside down, insert the candle inward. All that remains is to wait until the dark and light a vegetable flashlight.

Do-it-yourself pumpkin crafts are very interesting and exciting. Such products are short-lived, but for some time they will please you not only with a beautiful appearance, but also with a pleasant aroma.