It’s that time of year where your Halloween decoration and your fall decorations get mixed together! I usually go more towards the fall decorations, so I wanted to make something that I could put on our front porch that would be appropriate for Halloween and Thanksgiving. That’s when I came up with making a pumpkin topiary. Usually my crafts are in the beginner category. I’d say this one would fall more into the intermediate crafter category! It involves using power tools so if you are not comfortable with them, then please have someone help you! Mr. RCGG helped me drill all the holes and cut the stems of the pumpkins.
To make your own pumpkin topiary you need:
fake pumpkins (number depends on how tall you want your topiary)
a dowel rod
fall flowers
floral wire cutters
something to use as a base
glue gun or E600 glue
crafting knife or pocket knife
drill
To make your pumpkin topiary:
Turn your base over to where you can drill through the bottom. Make sure you drill a hole big enough for your dowel rod to go through. Put the dowel rod into the hole.
Cut the stems off all but one of the pumpkins. This will make them sit better on top of each other.
Drill through the bottom of the pumpkins.
Take the pumpkins and push the dowel rod through them all.
The next step in making a pumpkin tower is to arrange the base. Glue your pumpkins to each other. I used E6000 glue and put a little bit on the parts of the pumpkins that were resting on each other.
Decide where you want you flowers. I wanted mine to look simple and classic so I just went with them around the base and a few of the pumpkins. You can add as many flowers as you want or as few as you want.
Remove your flowers with a floral wire cutter. If you don’t have one you can just bend the flower stems back and forth. That’s what I did and it was a little more time consuming but it works. Leave a little of the stem so that you can push them between the pumpkins. Put your glue on the stems of the flowers and add them where you want on your pumpkin topiary.
I waited overnight to make sure my glue was dry before putting my topiary outside. I love how this project turned out! It was a little bit harder than what I thought it would be but it was well worth it!
Have you decorated for fall yet?
