If you try, you can create more complex fakes-candlesticks.
To start working with a pumpkin, you need to understand that this vegetable is different in size, color and thickness of the peel. Often choose a pumpkin orange and round, because it can make more interesting forgeries in the form of a head, and it is very popular on the Halloween holiday in the US.
But such fakes are not limited only to the heads with different faces, from them you can make funny vases, watches and decorations for the infield.
How to prepare a pumpkin for crafts and pick up a form?
If you do handicrafts with a pumpkin with your own hands for the first time, then it is better to start with a "vase".
This is the simplest fake, which will be easy for children, since it does not require too neat and thin lines. To begin with, it is necessary to cut off the "cap" of the vegetable and gently remove the inner contents together with the seeds. On the outside of the pumpkin, draw a necessary simple drawing with a pencil, then cut out these drawings with a sharp and thin knife. In the inner part of such a vase you can put a candle or plant some unpretentious annual plant.
If older children want to make a more complicated sculpture or fake, then tools and diligence will need a little more. Tools: an awl, spoon or scraper, sharp, thin and long knife, paper napkins, paints and other elements that you want to decorate a pumpkin.
And if there is a desire to do something beautiful, but for this little time, you can make autumn crafts from a decorative pumpkin.
It is usually small in size and very beautiful in shape from nature. To do this, you need to dry it, take paint and paint it in any color, and then glue some appliqué. In order to dry the pumpkin, it is necessary to carefully get out the "inside", and then fill it with paper napkins to absorb moisture, but the paper needs to be changed as needed.
To get a beautiful crafts from a pumpkin, then do not rush in this matter. Such work requires care, accuracy and maximum diligence. In order to cut the drawing on the pumpkin clearly, as conceived, it is first necessary to put it on paper then attach it to the pumpkin, and sew on the contours to make small holes. The more dense the holes, the better and clearer it will be to cut out the picture on the vegetable.
To make simple, but original handmade crafts made of pumpkin, you can color it and glue the themed decorative details. To do this, you need acrylic paint, they lie on the pumpkin better than others. And if you add a little felt, you can get funny caterpillars.
Of the smallest representatives of ornamental pumpkins, in a combination of beautiful twigs and colorful leaves, you can make a wreath to decorate the room for some celebration.
Regardless of which forgery you choose, and will do with the children, it will be a wonderful time spent, an occasion for joint communication and learning new.