Funny people
Dried pumpkin can be easily decorated with huge eyes. You can buy them or draw them separately and glue them. Cut a mouth out of red paper in a semicircle and glue it on.
Knit or find a small hat (knitted or made of straw or paper), put it on the vegetable, or wrap the person in a scarf. Buttons, a strap, ribbons, straws, bows will do - everything will be useful for creativity.
If you draw the mouth a little to the side, the face will be funnier, and the mustache will give it the age of a grandfather. You can draw large teeth or just 1 tooth for the entire jaw, etc.
DIY pumpkin house
Another great fall craft is a pumpkin house. Look at the photo to see what materials you will need for the craft.
Craft materials
We take a small pumpkin, mark a large and a small hole on it, cut through the top layer and carefully remove the flesh.
We make holes and take out the pulp
Decorate the large door opening with pumpkin seeds.
Glue the seeds
We decorate the small window opening with twigs and leaves.
Making a window
The pumpkin house is ready to receive residents made from pine cones, branches and acorns.
DIY pumpkin house
A pumpkin house can be decorated with fir branches.
Pumpkin house with fir branches
Watch a children's show that clearly shows how to make a pumpkin house.
And this gloomy Halloween-style house will delight any mischievous person.
Halloween pumpkin house
bear
If you combine several pumpkins of different sizes, you can create a real red bear.
Two large pumpkins - head and torso, 4 small ones - 2 arms/2 legs. Cut very small vegetables in half - 2 ears, 2 eyes, a little larger - a nose. Tie a colored scarf around your neck and the toy is ready.
Making a tree from pumpkin seeds
Feel free to use pumpkin seeds in original crafts and applications. Painted in different autumn colors, they turn into leaves. I offer you separate options on how to make a tree from pumpkin seeds. It is very useful for a child to develop fine motor skills and this is exactly the case when you can spend beneficial time with benefit.
You can not only draw a tree trunk, but also make it out of pumpkin seeds, first painting it brown.
Oak trees also grow well from colored paper
Draw branches on paper if the children are still very small and let them glue the seeds with PVA glue
Animals
If you use a little imagination, you can create funny gnomes, bears, owls, etc. Without even cutting the vegetable, you can glue ordinary sunflower seeds in circles in 2 rows - these are eyes. You can make holes inside for the mouth and eyes.
Pumpkin basket: how to make?
First you need to see if there is any damage or stains on the vegetable. It is best to make a basket from a medium-sized pumpkin, the color of which would be uniform.
- The vegetable must be washed and dried.
- Then you need to make a handle template. The template is pierced into the pumpkin along a pre-designated contour. Beginners are not recommended to make overly complex templates.
- Then, using a spoon, you need to very carefully remove all the pulp from the vegetable. The base should not be damaged, otherwise it will not be possible to make a good basket. The pumpkin handle is cut out using a sharp knife. They must not damage the walls!
- Now the workpiece needs to be dried. You can use plain paper for this. It will absorb moisture and the workpiece will dry. Place paper on the bottom of the vegetable and near its walls. Check the dryness with your hand; if moisture is felt, then you need to replace the paper with a new one and continue drying.
It is best to make a basket from a medium-sized pumpkin
To give the basket an unusual look, you should use a pocket knife and cut patterns on the sides with it.
Halloween flashlight
Let's look at step-by-step instructions for making pumpkin crafts. You can quickly dry a pumpkin:
- Wash it thoroughly with regular soap.
- Carefully cut off the top of the vegetable with a knife; for a lantern or box, it is better to cut the flesh at an angle (with the tip of the knife inward).
- Carefully add the pulp so as not to damage the peel. It is better to leave at least 1.5-2 cm for the vessel.
- You can sand the inside of the pumpkin, then wipe it with alcohol.
- The vessel should dry for several hours in the fresh air.
- Place newspaper (paper) under the vegetable, change it periodically, it will absorb moisture.
You can attach a small candle inside. Light will be visible through the cut holes. You can make a stencil of a funny or scary creature on paper in advance.
Autumn crafts from decorative pumpkins
The decorative pumpkin amazes with its beauty. It has already created figures and images that exist in the world. The main thing here is not to rush. Take a closer look, turn it in your hands, and ideas for crafts from this type of vegetable will appear in your head. In the meantime, also take a look at the ideas I found for you.
In general, houses made from such pumpkins turn out very well. The orange roof and white walls just look perfect like real fairy-tale buildings.
You can also get serious about creating pumpkin decor. For example, for a photo shoot, or maybe you and your child will take the design of a classroom or stage for a holiday.
Below are ideas for creating cute faces and chubby cats.
Garden crafts
You can easily tell if a pumpkin is dry by its sound. The seeds inside “ring.” Dried small pumpkins can be used to make bird houses, nesting dolls, pears and other decorative crafts for the garden. They were painted to suit their taste.
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A variety of engraver attachments for every taste and color
- A still life with roses will delight you longer than fresh flowers
Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin:
Pumpkin is an indispensable attribute of Halloween. Initially, this holiday meant the end of the harvest season, the completion of all autumn gardening work.
Halloween Jack-O-Lantern made from pumpkins
Farming families always had more than enough pumpkin, so due to its absolute unpretentiousness and very high yield, it was grown as feed for livestock. Therefore, Halloween crafts were made from pumpkins, which later became symbols of this holiday.
Pumpkin jack
A huge advantage of such crafts was the fact that even several days after All Saints' Day, the pumpkin remained edible and was fed to domestic animals.
Each pumpkin is different from the other, so you can create the most unimaginable creatures from them, you just have to stock up on imagination and available materials for creativity.
turkey
It’s easy to make a funny turkey, chicken, or other bird from a small pumpkin. To do this, you need to attach a bird's head to a whole pumpkin. You can glue a cardboard head to the cutting of a vegetable.
The bird's yellow (red) nose will be in the form of a droplet. The eyes are sold or you can make them yourself: 2 small black circles on white, slightly larger paper circles.
Maple leaves are perfect for a bushy ponytail. They need to be glued: the largest leaf in the center on the other side of the pumpkin, several others to the sides.
To make a sitting turkey, glue large legs in front of the head. The bird is ready.
Flowers made from pumpkin seeds for the autumn holiday
Flowers made from pumpkin seeds are very lush and incredibly beautiful. The seeds are so unique that the flowers from them can look like chrysanthemums, daisies, and even sunflowers. You can give them a different color shade thanks to the white base. Using additional handy materials, entire bouquets begin to bloom. Create them with your kids for a gift or for display. Unlike the pumpkin itself, such crafts last for a very long time.
Thanks to painstaking work, you can make such a voluminous composition. The base is plasticine
Here are such a variety of flowers from the same seeds
Vase
A homemade vase for fresh flowers from the garden looks interesting. It will be a beautiful decoration for the autumn holiday.
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The pumpkin needs to be quite large in size, 2 times larger than the selected glass jar (0.5-0.7 l). The inside of the pumpkin should be carefully cut out.
We make a wide neck to place a jar of water inside the vegetable for wildflowers. There are always a lot of asters, cornflowers, daisies and other flowers in the garden.
The combination of a red pumpkin with branches of lilac, dark burgundy asters and tall branches with dill seeds will be especially impressive. These shades go well together; you can create a background below – wide green leaves. This vase is a real table decoration.
We bring to your attention original photos of pumpkin crafts.
Beautiful pumpkin crafts for an exhibition at school
Well, friends, we begin to consider and choose. After all, fairs and autumn events in schools are definitely just around the corner, or maybe they are already in full swing. I present the very first option, which is quite simple to make, this is a spider.
As you can see, his limbs are made of wire, and his eyes are made of cardboard. It looks cool and wonderful! A smile just suggests itself.
Everyone’s favorite flowers and baskets, pumpkin vases also deserve your attention, take a look and appreciate them from the outside.
You will need to remove the pulp and seeds from the pumpkin (by the way, you can make something out of it, but I’ll tell you about that a little later). And then take fresh flowers and stick them into the hole. To make them last longer, you can place a glass of water there or take foam rubber and moisten it with water.
To better understand what I am writing about, watch this master class, it shows all the stages of work and gives photos.
Or like this:
Americans have the opportunity to decorate even their interiors around their homes with such souvenirs.
Or you can not even steam or sit and remove the pulp, but take and make small cuts or holes along the diameter of the pumpkin, and then insert flowers or dry twigs and leaves into them.
You can make an alarm clock in the same way. And tie a bow to it. Look at this original work that can be an excellent decoration in the classroom for Teacher's Day.
You can make a funny weirdo, maybe it will remind someone of a devil. Look how funny he came out, sat and winked at you.
Creative works will also captivate everyone. Look at this cancer. The face is painted with acrylic paints.
You can, if you’re really short of imagination, put small decorative pumpkins in a wicker basket, and you’ll also get a magnificent masterpiece. Decorate with rowan berries and something else, for example, pine cones.
Well, if the exhibition is timed to coincide with the Halloween holiday, then take such masterpieces as a basis. All that remains is to sit and painstakingly chikk the knife.
Subsequently, such lamps and lanterns come out that everyone definitely loves.
First make blanks, stencils and create. You can even use a screwdriver or drill, but only in the presence of adults.
How to make Kopatych from a pumpkin?
Who doesn’t know this wonderful character from “Smeshariki”? Kopatych is one of the main characters of this children's animated series. It's pretty easy to make from pumpkin.
The work includes the following stages:
- The vegetable itself should become the basis of the work. Therefore, it should be washed well and then dried. It is advisable not to use too large a fruit. If you wish, you can coat the pumpkin with varnish, so the craft will look more presentable.
- Kopatych's arms and legs should be made of plasticine. You can use other materials, but plasticine is quite easy and quick to work with. The limbs are glued to the fetus symmetrically.
- What should Kopatych’s nose be made of? There are several options: you can use potatoes, or you can use plasticine. If you choose the first option, then the potatoes should be medium in size and attached to the pumpkin with toothpicks.
- Kopatych's eyes are cut out of white paper. You need to draw a pupil in the center of the paper.
The most important thing in pumpkin Kopatych is to convey facial expressions
At the end, you should draw Kopatych’s facial expressions. To do this you need to use a black marker. The stripes should not be too wide, as the work should look natural.
