The tradition of decorating a house and the area around it with funny or scary pumpkin faces came to us from the USA and Western European countries. A Halloween pumpkin with a candle lit inside is a symbol of the holiday on the eve of All Saints' Day. This tradition originated among the ancient peoples who inhabited Ireland and highland Scotland, who thus scared away evil spirits and all evil spirits from their homes. They gutted a rutabaga or turnip and inserted a smoldering coal inside.
The Americans replaced the turnip with the more popular pumpkin, and thus the whole world got the tradition of carving the original Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween. However, you can make your own Halloween pumpkin from scrap materials: paper, fabric, old magazines and newspapers, cardboard, thread, wire, and even old can lids. We at Joy-pup will reveal to you the simplest and most original ways to make a pumpkin for Halloween and decorate your home with original designer crafts.
How to make a Halloween pumpkin out of paper: photos and videos of creative ideas
The easiest and most affordable way to make a pumpkin with your own hands for Halloween is to make it from cardboard and paper. These can be ordinary paper pumpkin faces, printed and cut out according to a template. Also, instead of a paper pumpkin stencil, you can use photos and drawings printed from the Internet.
If you wish, you can draw the pumpkin yourself, and you will receive an exclusive DIY Halloween design craft.
It's cool when there are a lot of such templates. You can make a Halloween pumpkin garland using stencils and bright colored paper.
A paper Halloween pumpkin turns out voluminous if you make it from plain or multi-colored stripes or use modern 3D technology.
Also, when creating a paper pumpkin with your own hands, improvised materials are often used - old newspapers, books and magazines. Look at the photo for a small master class on how to make a paper pumpkin with your own hands.
A voluminous pumpkin made of paper strips will effectively decorate your home on the eve of Halloween.
Cardboard, thick paper or old magazines will serve as excellent raw materials for creating a pumpkin. Watch the video to see how to make this simple and beautiful craft.
Papier-mâché pumpkin is a great homemade Halloween decoration. Several of these crafts will help create a festive atmosphere.
Children's cartoon characters
Favorite children's cartoon characters are very simply made from pumpkin. Such crafts are suitable for young children for an autumn exhibition in kindergarten, since to make them you only need: a pumpkin as a base, colored cardboard, markers or gouache and sewing pins. It is advisable to choose spherical pumpkins of the same size.
Smeshariki are made very simply. Each character has its own coloring and body parts.
- The Krosh Hare is made like this: take a pumpkin, paint it blue with gouache, attach ears cut out of blue cardboard on top, and make the character’s arms and legs from cardboard. All parts are attached to the pumpkin using sewing pins with a plastic head. Krosh's face: eyes, nose, mouth are drawn with gouache, or these details can also be cut out of colored cardboard and attached with pins.
- The hedgehog is made from a pumpkin painted dark pink. The arms and legs are also cut out of dark pink cardboard. The “crown” of needles and the Hedgehog’s glasses are cut out of purple cardboard. All parts are attached to the pumpkin with sewing pins. The face can be painted with gouache.
In the same way, any character from your favorite cartoon: be it Krosh, Hedgehog, Losyash, Pin, Kar-Karych, Kopatych, Barash, Sovunya or Nyusha, can be made by children at home on their own. In the same way you can make angry birds - Angry Birds. And if you take a pear-shaped pumpkin, you will get an excellent minion.
Pumpkin is an excellent material for creativity. This queen of the fields can shine both on the table among other pleasant dishes and serve as a wonderful attribute for the embodiment of various children's plans and ideas. A child will never regret choosing a pumpkin for making his crafts, as this simple fruit will awaken his rich imagination.
Felt pumpkin: festive Halloween master class
You can make a Halloween pumpkin from any fabric. But this craft is best made from soft felt. To make a bright pumpkin with your own hands, prepare the following tools and materials:
- orange felt;
- dense felt of brown and green color;
- threads;
- needles;
- filler (sintepon, cotton wool, etc.);
- thin tape;
- pencil and sheet of paper.
Step-by-step instruction
1. Draw a pumpkin on a piece of paper. It is advisable to take a piece of paper in a cage to calculate symmetry.
2. Cut out the paper pumpkin template and place it on the folded felt. Trace the template around the fabric and cut out 2 pieces.
3. Draw stripes on one of the parts and sew stitches with a thread of a contrasting color. This will be the “face” of the pumpkin.
4. Cut out the eyes, mouth and nose from brown felt and baste these parts to the “face” of the pumpkin.
5. Sew the 2 pumpkin pieces together, leaving a hole on one side for the filling. Attach a piece of green felt on top in the shape of a leaf.
6. Put in the filling and sweep the pumpkin with your own hands.
7. This is such a cute Halloween pumpkin craft you made with your own hands.
8. At the top of the product, attach a ribbon in the form of a loop so that the craft can be hung.
A few more DIY felt pumpkin options .
You can use not only felt, but also other soft fabric of bright colors. And also create Halloween decor in the form of ghosts, owls, bats with your own hands.
Required tools and materials
Bright, juicy orange pumpkins are best suited for Halloween.
To choose the most suitable pumpkin, you need to take into account several nuances. In this case, the color and shape of the vegetable can be any.
You can first wash the pumpkin with a sponge and dish soap to degrease the surface. Then it will be easier to draw and cut.
Please pay attention to the following criteria:
- There should be no soft areas on the pumpkin. This means that rotting is taking place.
- The tail is preferably hard and rigid.
- Avoid using pumpkins intended for baking. They are soft, weigh 2-3 kg, the design on them will not stick well.
- It is better if the pumpkin has a flat bottom. It is more convenient to install it on a surface.
- You can tap the peel. Feeling empty is a sign of ripeness.
- If the vegetable is bought 2-3 weeks before the holiday, you can take it slightly unripe. The pumpkin will ripen perfectly at home just in time for the celebration.
Tools you will need:
- a sharp knife, preferably serrated - it cuts through thick skin more easily;
- spoon or scraper;
- awl;
- marker;
- scissors.
How to make a Halloween pumpkin with your own hands from scrap materials
A decorative pumpkin for Halloween can be made from any available materials. Modern handmade virtuosos make pumpkin-shaped crafts using thread, wire, plasticine, clay and other improvised means that can be found at home.
2 options on how to make a Halloween pumpkin from bright threads with your own hands.
Creative craft - Halloween pumpkin made from corrugated pipe .
A pumpkin can be made from wire - a real work of art that can decorate your home all year round.
Delightful products - a knitted pumpkin or a voluminous craft made from thick fabric.
Crafts made from plasticine, polymer clay, as well as lanterns, vases, jars and pumpkin-shaped stands will greatly decorate your home for Halloween.
It is usually difficult to get children to eat pumpkin dishes. But if you decorate cookies in the shape of this bright autumn fruit or make a pumpkin from an orange or tangerine, then your treats will definitely please.
Especially if you hide your favorite sweets in a “fake” pumpkin.
This Halloween craft just blew us away. This is not just a decorative pumpkin made from scrap materials, but a real masterpiece. To make an original pumpkin with your own hands, prepare canning rings (about 16 pieces), decorative tape, wire, a cinnamon stick, and burlap for decoration. Also don’t forget about the tools: scissors, wire cutters, glue gun.
Look at the photo for a detailed master class on how to make a delicious Halloween pumpkin with your own hands.
How to choose a pumpkin for crafts
In order to make your own original and unique pumpkin crafts, you need to choose the right working material. When choosing, you must adhere to the following recommendations:
- For crafts, ripe fruits are selected that have no stains, abrasions, or dark spots; the fruit must be completely undamaged.
- When cutting a pumpkin from your garden, it is advisable to leave a part of the stem-peduncle about 7-10 cm long, so the natural drying of the fruit will take place both through the stem itself and through the peel of the fruit.
How to carve a pumpkin for Halloween: photos of creative ideas 2022
The symbol of the Halloween holiday has been and remains a pumpkin lantern, which is called Jack's lantern. To decorate your home and fill it with an atmosphere of mysticism and mystery, you can carve a scary pumpkin or make a funny pumpkin with a face using paints, markers, felt-tip pens, special eyes and scrap materials.
How to make a festive pumpkin lantern step by step , look at the photo.
You can design a pumpkin with a face in your own way, giving it various emotions - anger, horror, fear, ridicule, contempt. Print out stencils with pumpkin face options and create your own original Jack-O-Lantern.
Kids love lighting jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween!
Sometimes a Halloween pumpkin can be designed in an unexpected or even “glamorous” way. What do you think about using a pumpkin instead of a vase, flower pot or beer coaster? See fresh ideas for decorating Halloween parties.
For detailed instructions on how to make a pumpkin head for Halloween with your own hands, watch the video.
Methods of application
Lagenaria is a long-fruited pumpkin, more popularly known as bottle or dish pumpkin. You can also find the following names: gourd, Vietnamese zucchini, Indian cucumber. This crop is actively grown in India, African countries, Southeast and Central Asia, where its fruits are used not only to create dishes, decorate the home and for food, but also to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, normalize metabolic processes, as dietary baby food. And this is not surprising, because lagenaria fruits are hypoallergenic and contain large quantities of macro- and micronutrients, vitamins, and pectin, necessary to ensure the normal functioning of the body.
You should know that only green (unripe) fruits of lagenaria varieties are used for food: Bottles, Cobra, Colebassa, Lucertola.
Crafts from gourd gourds are made from fully ripened and dried fruits. Most often these are dishes and household items:
- buckets;
- vases and bowls;
- caskets;
- toys;
- souvenirs.
Very often, containers made from the fruits of this pumpkin are used as containers for storing water, milk, and bulk products. Pumpkin jugs are highly durable, light weight and completely waterproof. Milk is stored in such a natural container several times longer than in glass containers.
