Add a rustic touch to your fall decor with these cute and easy bandana pumpkins! With 15 minutes and simple craft supplies, you can make these farmhouse pumpkins that will look pretty on your front porch or on your Thanksgiving table!
Farmhouse Pumpkins
We just celebrated one year in our new house in the country! It’s been a dream of mine since childhood to have a place with a few acres, just like my Granny and Grandad. It took a lot of dreaming, praying, working, and saving, but we finally made it happen!
I’ve always loved rustic country decor and it’s been a lot of fun decorating for fall this year. Fall is my favorite season!
These bandana pumpkins fit in perfectly with our farmhouse front porch! I even found a little miniature straw bale to display with them on top of my Jack Daniels barrel end table.
The best part about this craft is that you can find everything you need to make these pumpkins at the Dollar Store! It’s thrifty and easy and so pretty!
Supplies Needed
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- Carvable Foam Pumpkins — These a cheap, Dollar Store pumpkins made out of light foam. We need them to be breakable for this craft so we can remove the stem and re-attach it.
- Orange Bandana — You’ll need one bandana for each pumpkin. Feel free to use your favorite fall colors or even black, white, and spooky Halloween colors!
- Twine — This should also be available at the dollar store. You can use any color, but we love the natural “rustic” look.
- Black Craft Paint — For painting the stem.
Craft Tools Used:
- Paintbrush
- Craft scissors
- Craft Knife
- Chopstick or Pencil
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Where do I find carvable foam pumpkins?
The specific type of pumpkins we used in this craft are available in the fall at the Dollar Store or Dollar Tree. The display might vary slightly, but usually looks something like this:
If you’re hoping to avoid in-store shopping this year, they have similar foam pumpkins available on Amazon too. Click here to check them out!
How to Make Bandana Pumpkins
Use craft knife to cut out a square around the green foam pumpkin stems to create a hole in the top of each pumpkin.
Use craft knife to remove any extra orange foam from the stems. Leave the wooden pick in the stem, as this will help it stay in place when we re-attach.
Paint stem black; apply a second coat if needed and let dry.
Spread bandana flat on your workspace. Place the pumpkin in the middle of bandana. Starting at one corner, pull the bandana up to cover the pumpkin and tuck the end of bandana down in the hole where the stem used to be.
Work around the pumpkin, folding the bandana up and over, and tucking it in place, until the entire pumpkin is covered.
Use a chopstick or pencil to push the ends of the bandana further into the hole at the top of your pumpkin, so that everything is taut and secure.
Insert stems into the tops of the foam pumpkins and secure with hot glue.
Tie bows using twine and glue the twine bows on top to complete your project.
Can you use another type of pumpkin?
Sure! The main reason we like these foam pumpkins is that it is easy to remove the stem so we can tuck in the bandana.
If you use a hard plastic pumpkin, you may not be able to do this, so even if you use a different pumpkin, look for foam as the material.
When you find these Dollar Store pumpkins, stock up! They are so versatile for fall crafting! Look at these adorable Mickey & Minnie Mouse pumpkins we made using them:
Printable Instructions to make Bandana Pumpkins
Bandana Pumpkins
Equipment
- Glue gun
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
- Craft knife
- Pencil
Ingredients
- Foam Pumpkin
- Bandana
- Black Craft Paint
- Twine
Instructions
- Use craft knife to cut out a square around the green foam pumpkin stems to create a hole in the top of each pumpkin. Set the stems aside.
- Spread bandana flat on your workspace. Place the pumpkin in the middle of bandana. Starting at one corner, pull the bandana up to cover the pumpkin and tuck the end of bandana down in the hole where the stem used to be.
- Work around the pumpkin, folding the bandana up and over, and tucking it in place, until the entire pumpkin is covered.
- Use a chopstick or pencil to push the ends of the bandana further into the hole at the top of your pumpkin, so that everything is taut and secure.
- Use craft knife to remove any extra orange foam from the stems. Leave the wooden pick in the stem, as this will help it stay in place when we re-attach.
- Paint stem black; apply a second coat if needed and let dry.
- Use your twine to tie a bow for each pumpkin.
- Insert stems into the tops of the foam pumpkins and secure with hot glue. Attach the twine bows on top to complete your project.
Video
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