Pumpkin vase with your own hands

Pumpkin is a bright, tasty and healthy vegetable, which pleases us in autumn and throughout most of the winter. In cooking, it can be used to prepare various dishes in cooked and baked form, a raw pumpkin is used to make the most useful juice. But this wide range of pumpkin use is not limited: it is one of the most common materials for creating home decor items. A huge variety of shapes and sizes allows you to make from pumpkins not only traditional sinister decorations for Halloween , but also a lot of beautiful and useful things - caskets, lamps, toys and so on. But vase from pumpkin is very popular among fans of maida. They are extremely simple to manufacture and very advantageous look with seasonal bouquets of flowers, plants and herbs, as well as with dried flowers.

For crafts, you can use both decorative varieties of pumpkin , and food, but then you need to take young fruits of small size. For vases it is better to take small round and slightly squashed pumpkins, the bottom of which is flat enough to be stable.

With proper processing and drying, the pumpkin can stand for a very long time and delight you with its sunny color, reminiscent of warm days. For the manufacture of simple pumpkin vases with your own hands, you do not need special tools. Special knives will only be needed if you use the carving technique to decorate a pumpkin made of a pumpkin.

You can dry the pumpkin both before the craftwork is made from it, and after. The second option is preferable in that it is much easier to work with a fresh pumpkin than with a dried one. In order to dry the finished product, it is necessary to fill it with paper so that the product does not deform during drying and leave in a warm room. As the paper becomes soaked with juice, it needs to be changed. Dry pumpkin will not rot, deteriorate and spread the smell.

How to make a pumpkin vase?

We need:

Progress:

  1. Cut the top of the pumpkin in such a way that a prepared plastic container easily passes through the hole.
  2. Spoon the seeds and flesh, they can be used for cooking. Next, the pumpkin can be dried as described above, but it will take several weeks. You can not and do not dry, but then the life of such a vase is significantly reduced.
  3. Inside the cleaned hollow pumpkin we put a plastic container, pour water into it if necessary.
  4. Make a bouquet and put it in the vase in such a way that it covers the edges. As elements of a bouquet it is possible to use leaves, twigs with berries and even pine cones - all depends on imagination.

If you want, you can make a few such vases and decorate them with a variety of the following ways:

  1. We spread the vase with glue for decoupage. Do not let the glue dry, dipped it in the English salt. If you get it problematically, you can use sugar. After drying, the vase is ready, you can put a bouquet in it.
  2. To make a vase in a vintage style, you need to paint it with white paint from the can, let it dry. Then sand the sides of the pumpkin lightly until the orange gaps appear on them. The vintage vase looks very impressive.
  3. In order to make the vase bright and cheerful, it is possible to glue strips of fabric on it with the help of glue for decoupage.