DIY pumpkins with denim
Looking for a fun and unique way to decorate your home this fall? Look no further than DIY pumpkins out of denim!
Yield: 1 pumpkin
Equipment
- scissors
- ruler
- Craft Knife
- Chopstick or Pencil
- Wired Twine
- Wire Cutters
- Pumpkin leaf template
Materials
- Foam Pumpkin One
- Wooden Stems
- Ribbon and/or Twine
- Recycled Pair of Jeans
- Craft Felt – Olive Green
Instructions
- Gather all supplies. Remove the tag and the stem from the foam pumpkin.
- Using a craft knife, carefully cut out a square in the top of the foam pumpkin that is approximately 2” by 2” to create a hole. Flip the foam pumpkin over and cut out a square in the bottom that is approximately 2” by 2” to create a hole.
- Measure and cut a 12” length from the leg of the denim jeans, making sure that the pumpkin will fit inside. Place the foam pumpkin in the center of the section of blue jean leg.
- Starting at the bottom of the pumpkin, insert the denim jean leg onto the square hole. Continue to fold the denim using the natural shape of the pumpkin as your guide and poke the fabric into the hole with your finger.
- Flip the pumpkin over. Gather, fold, and insert the denim onto the hole at the top of the pumpkin. Use a chopstick or pencil once the hole becomes filled with the thick fabric. Continue to fold the denim using the natural shape of the pumpkin as your guide and poke the denim into the hole.
- Insert a wooden stem into the top center of the pumpkin and secure with a glue gun and glue sticks.
- Print the LEAF PATTERN, layer onto a scrap of olive green craft felt and cut out one with scissors. To create dimension, apply a dot of glue at the base of the leaf and fold in half.
- Measure and cut one 12” length of wired twine using wire cutters. Wrap around a pencil, and then slide off to create a vine. Stretch and bend the wire to create a pumpkin vine.
- To finish the Denim Pumpkin, attach the wired twine vine and the leaf to the side of the wooden stem, securing with a glue gun and glue sticks.
