Pumpkin Crafts

For thousands of years, pumpkins have been used to make a variety of household utensils and now they have not lost their popularity. The only exception is that the pumpkin is no longer some ordinary dishes, but a festive graceful ornament that gives joy and a sense of something unusual.

Most often pumpkins serve as an ornament for the Halloween feast , which is celebrated on October 31, on the eve of All Saints Day. It's just impossible to imagine a Halloween script without a slightly malicious, but nevertheless extremely cheerful and positive, pumpkin muzzle. Pumpkin has become just an indispensable attribute of the holiday.

But not only on Halloween pumpkin can decorate your house. Small decorative pumpkins will become a wonderful stylish decoration in other 364 days of the year.

Let's then consider in more detail what kind of crafts made of pumpkin can be made by hand.

Pumpkin for Halloween

We will begin, of course, with the most popular version of the decor of the pumpkin for Halloween. A cheerful and insidious smile that will bring joy not only to children, but also to adults, because everyone wants a laugh and a holiday.

How to make a pumpkin for Halloween?

1. First, of course, you need a pumpkin. This is the main "ingredient" of this master class. Pumpkin should be fresh and beautiful, and the size is already at your choice.
2. Depending on the shape of the pumpkin, we cut off a small piece of the bottom or the tip (if the squash is flattened, then cut from below, if stretched, then from above), and get through this hole of her entrails. To make this process as easy as possible, it is advisable to choose a soft pumpkin, which is easier to extract the entrails.
3. The next step is to determine the pattern. If you first decided to do figurative cutting on a pumpkin, then choose a simple drawing. You can simply draw a marker on the pumpkin, the face you want, and you can find a template on the Internet and draw it, or translate it into a pumpkin with a tracing paper.
4. Now let's see how to cut a pumpkin into Halloween. You will need a kitchen knife. It is desirable that it be thin and comfortable. To cut out the muzzle of special skills is not required - only patience and accuracy. You just cut out the muzzle according to the sketch made on the pumpkin earlier. Over time, as you gain skill in this matter, you can cut out more complex drawings.
5. It remains only to put a candle in the pumpkin and everything is ready. The eyes of your pumpkin muzzle will light up with a twinkle, announcing that it is ready for a bright holiday and a long night.

Halloween pumpkin with sparkles

Another version of the pumpkin for Halloween with their own hands. Such a pumpkin for Halloween can be called female. A bit like a disco ball, and with a certain drop of light rays on it, this pumpkin will probably shine no worse.

How to make a pumpkin for Halloween with sparkles?

1. To make a pumpkin with sparkles, you need a white pumpkin, glue, glitter, tassels, sponges and fixer.
2. Using a brush, cover some sections of the pumpkin with glue, and then apply sponge to these areas of the sequins. When the pumpkin dries, cover it with a layer of fixer, so that the sequins do not fall off. In the patterns it all depends on your imagination - you can make a striped pumpkin, pumpkin in peas or in a cell, as you want.

That's all - the pumpkin is ready to please you and surprise your guests, and most importantly - it is ready to diversify the decoration of your house and light up the party.

Decorative Pumpkin Crafts

Finally remember that from the pumpkin you can not only muzzle on Halloween cut, but also make stylish decorations for the house, which will add comfort to your interior. From the decorative pumpkin you can make elegant candlesticks or vases - all that your fantasy will reach. But while the fantasy has not yet developed, let's take a closer look at how to make an interesting vase from a decorative pumpkin.

How to make a pumpkin vase?

1. First, we'll figure out how to dry a pumpkin for crafts, so that the candlestick serves you long and true. It takes you several months to dry the pumpkin. The pumpkin should simply lie in a dry and not sunny place until it hardens completely (you will understand it by knocking seeds when you shake a pumpkin). Some pumpkins do not dry out, but rot, so it's better to dry several pieces at once.
2. After the pumpkin has reached the condition, you cut off the top and make a groove and cut out the groove for the future vase.
3. Next, you need a plastic or glass cup, in which you will pour water for flowers. If you are going to put in a pumpkin bouquets of dried flowers, then this step can be skipped.
4. Check if the glass is sitting well in the groove, if necessary, then widen the groove. After that, you can already put flowers.

The vase is ready. By the same principle of a pumpkin, you can make a candlestick.

Crafts from pumpkins are very fun to make the whole family. In addition, it is nice that these crafts can be not only entertainment, but also a stylish designer decoration for your home.