DIY Paper Pumpkins
A fun rainy day craft to get you in the fall spirit!
Yield: 1 pumpkin
Materials
- 1 glue stick
- 3 or more pieces paper or more depending on size of stencil
- acrylic paint optional
- brown felt pen, crayon or pastel optional
- scissors
Instructions
- First, cut out a stencil for your pumpkin. Do this by drawing an oval with flat tops and bottoms like the one pictured here. To make the same size pumpkin as the ones pictured in this post, make your oval approximately three inches high and 5 inches wide. If you want a larger pumpkin, just scale up the size.
- Trace out your stencil onto your paper of choice and cut out your ovals.
- Make the stem by cutting out a thin strip of paper, about half an inch wide. Curl this around a pencil, paintbrush or anything similar to create a coil.
- Your stems should look like this.
- Now make the body of the pumpkin by folding each oval in half.
- After all of your ovals are folded, glue the top of one folded oval to the bottom of another. Do not glue together the middle!
- You should now have a three layered oval!
- Keep glueing the ovals together to form a stack. Be sure to only glue together the top of one to the bottom of another and to not glue together the middles.
- Now connect the stem by glueing it to the flat side of the top layer.
- Finally, take the top layer of your stack and glue it to the bottom layer. This should make your folds spread apart and reveal your pumpkin!
- Let your pumpkin dry for a couple minutes to ensure it won't fall apart and then enjoy :). These look great in a fall vignette or as a nifty centrepiece!
