Permanent pumpkins are a great way to dress up your home for Halloween. They are fun to make and can be reused year after year. Painting the face yellow gives the illusion of being lit from within. Create a pumpkin with a silly, grin and place it entrance way to welcome guests.
Difficulty – Easy
Materials
- Orange resin pumpkin
- Yellow indoor/outdoor acrylic paint
- Autumn leaves
- Dark brown or black floral tape
- Jewelry wire or brown pipe cleaners
- Craft glue
Instructions
- Draw a silly pumpkin face with pencil on an orange resin pumpkin.
- Paint the face with yellow indoor/outdoor acrylic paint. It may need 2 or 3 coats to cover evenly. Let dry.
- To create the curly vine, cut three 8 inch pieces of wire. Apply a small amount of craft glue to a few inches of the back of the floral tape. Continue to add glue to the back of the floral tape slightly overlapping the tape as you continue to wrap it around the wire. You may skip this step if you are using brown pipe cleaners.
- Wrap the covered wire or pipe cleaners around a pencil to put the curl in your vine and slide it off the pencil.
- Apply craft glue to the end of each of the curly vines and attach them to the top of the pumpkin.
- Apply glue to the wrong side of the leaves and place them evenly spaced to the top of the pumpkin.
