Making pumpkins in autumn – 20 ideas and instructions

The pumpkin is not only a popular autumn fruit, but also makes a great decoration for the home and garden. Real pumpkins are an integral part of autumn crafts and are beautifully carved and painted for Halloween. The autumn favorite has an easily recognizable shape that can also be reproduced using other materials. Today we'll show you a few ideas for materials that you can easily use to make fun pumpkins.

You will need a few orange yarn pompoms in different sizes, green felt, a small twig about 30 millimeters in size, hot glue gun, wire cutters and scissors. Use the wire cutters to cut the branch into small pieces. Cut the felt like a small sheet. You can use a stencil for this. Glue the “stem” to the pompom and add the leaf.

Gently press a Styrofoam ball onto the table so that it stops rolling and resembles the shape of the popular autumn fruit. Cover the ball with orange mohair yarn. Make a stem out of wrapping paper and attach it to it using the hot glue gun.

A very cheap oneIdea for fall decoration. All you need is fabric, kitchen rolls and wrapping paper!

If you are a big fan of upcycling, then this DIY project is perfect for you. Cans are painted in fall colors and decorated with raffia twine and corks.

A great way to give new life to torn books with missing pages or covers. It would be emotionally difficult to cut a book, but remember that you want to make something beautiful and useful out of it and this way it will be saved from the trash can.

Jam jars are also easy to decorate and can be used as beautiful candle holders. They are filled with sweets and given away.

A very unusual but brilliant idea. Who would have thought that an old exhaust hose could look so beautiful. Painted with orange acrylic paint and decorated with raffia twine. Cinnamon sticks serve as a stem.

Housewives can work with unexpected items to create artful objects. Like these pumpkins made from painted paving stones.

Many interesting shapes can be created from balloons, thread and glue, such as Easter eggs, lamps and... of course pumpkins!

Cut a circle out of jute fabric, fill it with fiberfill and sew the ends together. To create the typical pumpkin shape, use 3 strings crossed at the bottom.

Sweet mini decorations can be created from modeling clay. Make a ball out of orange modeling clay and shape it with toothpicks. Add green modeling clay handle.