Pumpkin is a universal material from which you can create many interesting crafts. The pumpkin house looks especially attractive. You can do it in various ways, and it will always attract attention.
Pumpkins and Halloween
Many orange vegetable products are associated with the famous Halloween holiday. But not only to this day, you can make a pumpkin house with your own hands. It can be created at any time and decorate the interior. On the windowsill, the craft will look mysterious and attractive. The houses can be varied, the performance depends on your mood.
Someone prefers to carve mysterious castles with complex patterns. There are those that represent the pumpkin as a cute little house for the gnomes. Huts, huts, and strange witches' dwellings come from this malleable material. To begin creativity, it is necessary to conduct a preparatory process.
Materials for working with vegetables
Before you cut a house out of pumpkins (a master class is given in this article below), you need to prepare materials for creativity. To do the job accurately, be sure to purchase:
- Knife with a long blade. With it, holes of large diameter will be cut.
- An awl that is used to create small holes in the skin of a pumpkin.
- You can prepare drills of various diameters.
- Felt pens draw all the shapes and desired patterns.
- Stencils with drawings. You can do them yourself. First draw a picture and cut out the middle using a clerical knife.
- Acrylic paints to colorize and paint.
- Glue, it is better if decoupage can be done with it. This effect will create the most unusual pumpkin house.
You may need beads and fabric. Coming up with funny scenery is always interesting and entertaining.
Preparing pumpkins for work
Before creativity, vegetables need to be properly processed. For the base, a decorative pumpkin is chosen , and not an ordinary garden pumpkin . If you do not make preliminary preparations, the pumpkin will lose its attractive appearance. It can even simply rot.
The vegetable should be washed and dried well. Cut the top so as to get the flesh. You can pull it out with the most ordinary spoon. The pulp must be removed completely. Otherwise, the fetus will begin to mold. Residues from the walls are removed with large emery paper. Put the peeled pumpkin in a ventilated place, stuffed with an old newspaper. The paper filling changes until it no longer absorbs moisture. Pumpkin preparation will take several months. Therefore, you need to approach this issue in advance. Only in this way you will get a quality pumpkin house. Craft will last you a long time.
Camper
Look at the presented photo. This pumpkin house is made using squash. They should also be prepared and dried. Of course, if the design should stand for only a few weeks, then it is not necessary to tediously cook vegetables.
Windows and doors are cut with a knife. Before you start working with a sharp object, draw an approximate outline of future windows. For a door handle, a clove bud is used. Each mistress in seasonings has a bag with these spices. The wheels are attached on both sides, you can use wooden skewers. The most difficult thing is to pick up squash of the same size. Only in this way will they look harmoniously in the overall composition.
We cut unusual locks
A pumpkin house can be absolutely anyone. There is no perfect home or structure. It all depends on your boundless imagination. Imagine your pumpkin castle and boldly get to work. It is not necessary to build windows and doors. You can simply cut the desired house (its outline) on one side of the vegetable.
You can, for example, carve fabulous huts. Of course, in order to create such a masterpiece, you must be patient. Before you begin, draw a rough sketch. In the center of the vegetable you need to put a candle. As soon as dusk descends to the ground, boldly light the wick and enjoy the unusual play of light.
Sweet home for the gnome
This craft can be done by the whole family. Let everyone create their own masterpiece, arrange a competition and put your pumpkins on the windowsill.
If you work in a kindergarten, then use this idea to keep the kids busy. For example, create a home from the fairy tale "Cipollino" - the pumpkin house. Kindergarten is a great place for creativity, but you should bring vegetables already with holes. Give each child an orange blank and start collective creativity. Of course, in the book, the Pumpkin House was built of bricks, but you can dream up and create it from such an unusual vegetable material.
Kids will need to give out a variety of decor items. Bright markers, colored or self-adhesive paper, pieces of fabric and colored beads are perfect for this. With their help, blanks will turn into real masterpieces. Such crafts will decorate any home.
As decorative elements we use cones and moss. These materials must be prepared in advance. Take a walk with your wards in the park area and dry the gifts of nature. If a candle is placed in the center of the vegetable, then light will be visible in the windows. As if cute gnomes live in a house. By the way, you can use characteristic figures to create a complete composition.
Mouse house
Gnomes are certainly cute creatures. But a pumpkin house can be for mice. In order to decorate a table or window sill with such a composition, it is necessary to make holes for the door and window. A door made of twigs is used as a door. Just tie a pair of twigs of the appropriate size. Install improvised grilles on the windows. Mice can be bought at a toy store or sewn yourself. The second option is welcome, as in this case your residents will be different originality.
The item can be decorated with curtains and steps. Show your imagination and transform an orange vegetable into a real masterpiece that can decorate the interior.
Other vegetable houses
Do-it-yourself pumpkin house can be done using felt. Just cut out the necessary details and stick to the peel. You will only need to make holes, simulating windows. Near each window, plant a hero. The craft will immediately become livelier. Use a multi-colored fabric to make the crafts bright and juicy.
The easiest option is to use acrylic paints. Just draw your pumpkin house. He will also look peculiar and unique. In this embodiment, only black paint was used. But, nevertheless, the craft looks interesting and atmospheric. Only by experimenting, you will get interesting orange houses from the most ordinary pumpkin.