Crafts from pumpkin for kindergarten. Pumpkins are a great material for all kinds of crafts.

10.08.2019

Now pumpkin season has arrived! Last weekend, my mother's sister came to visit us, who moved from town to village to live closer to nature, grow her favorite flowers and take care of the garden. Aunt Mila knows that I really love pumpkin, and therefore brought us as many as 5 bright orange beauties.

We wondered why there was so much, because one or two would be enough to make pumpkin soup and porridge. Aunt took one of the pumpkins and, using a saucer as a template, drew an even line in a circle. Then she began to carefully cut off the top with a knife along the outlined contour. What happened in the end made me love this wonderful vegetable even more.

DIY pumpkin crafts

The idea was to use pumpkin as a vase... To do this, you need to take out what is inside, replace with a container of water or put a special sponge soaked in water. Flowers in such improvised vases live as long as in ordinary ones, but the composition looks much more original.

Editorial staff "So simple!" prepared 23 amazing ideas for you pumpkin compositions... Yesterday after work I did the same as in No. 14, and now I enjoy the cozy atmosphere in the kitchen.

What better way to showcase the riches of autumn than the union of flowers and harvest? Even the most modest autumn flowers in such a composition will play in a new way.
In this composition, the pumpkin top also serves as a decoration. Looks very interesting, doesn't it?
Quite an unusual solution using succulents instead of flowers. Such a composition will make your room truly special.
The pumpkin will serve as a wonderful vase for fresh autumn flowers. To do this, you just need to clean the pulp. Such compositions will perfectly decorate the banquet hall, wedding tables and the area around the house.
I am fascinated by this atmospheric and even a little mystical decor idea.
There are even white pumpkins! A rare but very impressive variety. In such a snow-white pumpkin vase you can put a wedding bouquet of white flowers, vintage (in natural or pastel colors) or make a composition for every day with yellow and orange flowers, complementing them with greenery.
Here the craftsman did his best. Look how much fantasy and hard work there is!
What can you say about such an amazing decorating pumpkin flowers?
Amazing splendor!
Small pumpkins will look very cute if you place tall candles in them. To do this, you need to cut off the top and clean out the pulp. Then insert a candle into the pumpkin, strengthen well - cover with sand, cereals, sugar.
Such candles will create a cozy atmosphere at the festive table, add a piece of magic and fairy tales to the atmosphere of the house.
The pumpkin can also be used as a fruit basket. Fill it with any fruits and berries. Use apples and pears, quince, hops, hawthorn berries. It is necessary to plant them on wire or wooden skewers and place them in a pumpkin basket, decorating with maple leaves, flowers, acorns and dried herbs.
There are three ways to make a pumpkin vase. For each of them, you will need to cut off the top, remove all the pulp, and then thoroughly dry the resulting container with paper napkins.

I also offer you an interesting one. Yes, it’s cupcake!

The preparation method is quite simple and will not take you much time, and the result will pleasantly please. Believe me, even if you are not a pumpkin lover, after you taste this delicacy, you will definitely become one. Surprise your family with these fragrant and healthy pastries.

Pumpkins can be an excellent interior decoration, with the help of such autumn decoration your home will become much more comfortable, and such an atmosphere will give everyone a good mood and memories, especially if you do the decor together.

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Autumn is a wonderful time, it seems as if nature is ready to give it all its colors before the cold winter. And a great gift from this time of year we get all kinds of vegetables, which are not only useful to eat, but also make all kinds of crafts from them - decorations for the interior.

Today on the website "Dream House" we will talk about the pumpkin. It is not only useful, but also has a beautiful color, from green with splashes of yellow to juicy yellow and orange. Thanks to the color and thick skin, pumpkin crafts are durable and beautiful. They can please the eye for a very short time or, conversely, for a very long time. What can be made from pumpkin, how to extend the life of crafts? Let's talk about this.

What crafts can be made from pumpkin with your own hands

The first thing that comes to mind is pumpkin on. On this holiday, the pumpkin head is found everywhere, and in our country the idea was picked up fairly quickly. The second is. But we have a separate publication about them. What else?

The easiest crafts to perform are all kinds of boxes, candlesticks, lanterns,. More difficult items to make are made from dried pumpkin - a handbag.

You can fill a nursery with a large number of pumpkin crafts: a mobile for a crib, maracas, a lamp, and so on. Together with the children it will be interesting to make a carriage, houses, various animals, pumpkin boats, all kinds of little people.

Cool faces - crafts from pumpkin

Cool faces - pumpkin crafts for the garden

DIY pumpkin crafts for children

A fireplace or a shelf in the living room can be decorated with such an original craft as a clock from a round pumpkin.

Crafts from a large pumpkin - clock

If you are a happy owner of a garden, then fill it with street lamps and lanterns, a birdhouse, an intricate pumpkin washstand.

Pumpkins decorated with fresh flowers, sparkles, autumn leaves look luxurious. This is perhaps one of the best jewelry for.

And with the help of paints, you can make beautiful patterns.

How to make pumpkin crafts: highlights

Getting acquainted with the pumpkin as a material for crafts, it is best to get your hand on objects that are easy to perform, and only after that move on to more complex crafts.

We select the tool

For the manufacture of a particular craft, it is necessary to properly prepare the tools at hand. Most often you will need:

long knife;
a scraper or spoon to remove the pulp from the pumpkin;
paper for faster drying of the pumpkin;
thin paper, coal;
an awl to make small holes;
Scotch;
paint, cutter and so on.

We select and dry the pumpkin

Most often, crafts are made from decorative pumpkins, but ordinary small specimens can also be used. Having chosen a suitable vegetable, inspect it for rotten spots, wash thoroughly and wipe it off, preferably with an alcohol solution. Your next step depends on the purpose of the future craft.

If you do not plan to store it for a long time, then simple drying of the pumpkin is necessary, which will not take very long. You should cut off the neck, spoon out the pulp and seeds with a spoon, then stuff it with a lot of paper so that it absorbs moisture. Change the paper until it is no longer damp. The pumpkin is now ready to use.

If you want to do something a little more serious, like dishes, then you need to know how to dry a handicraft pumpkin so that it lasts much longer. You will have to be patient because this process will take six months. To avoid disappointment by the end of the term, instead of well-dried pumpkin, choose a few pieces to dry. In the process, some of them may start to rot. So, pumpkins washed and wiped with a weak alcohol solution must be removed to a well-ventilated room not exposed to sunlight. Vegetables should not touch each other. Turn pumpkins every day for 6 months and check to see if they have rotted so that the infected vegetable can be removed in time.

How to dry a pumpkin for crafts

Crafts from dried pumpkin

We start to create

To make making pumpkin crafts with your own hands give you a lot of pleasure, use our tips:

if the pumpkin was dried whole, then before removing the seeds from it, pour water inside, then rinse the pumpkin;
To apply a pattern to a vegetable, you must first apply it to thin paper, then use adhesive tape to glue it to the pumpkin and use an awl to "pierce" the pattern along the contour. After you remove the paper, wipe the craft with charcoal, it will help fix the drawing. The second option is to use ordinary carbon paper to apply the pattern;
the drawing is finally applied on a well-dried pumpkin using a jigsaw or a wood-burning device;
on a fresh pumpkin, you can apply a drawing with an ordinary vegetable cutter;
if you decide to use paints, then give preference to acrylic;
do not varnish the craft, the pumpkin should breathe;
if the fresh pumpkin craft begins to dry out, dip it in water for several hours;
cut the drawing from the center;
if you unsuccessfully cut out a part of the pattern in a fresh pumpkin, you can return the cut piece with the help of a wire.

Pumpkin Crafts for Beginners

Having fired up with the idea to create something, I don't want to wait 6 months. Therefore, we bring to your attention the simplest crafts made from natural material - from pumpkin.

Pumpkin candle

Prepare a small pumpkin as described above. After quick drying, gently fix the wick at the bottom of the pumpkin, pour the wax inside. You can use an aromatic wax.

Small candles - round pumpkin crafts

Candlestick

Follow the steps described for making a pumpkin candle, only at the end, instead of wax and a wick, put a small candle inside the vegetable. If you wish, you can first apply a drawing and make the candlestick more delicate. You can also make a lamp.

Pumpkin basket

Perfectly decorate the autumn table. Open the pumpkin under the basket, cutting out the excess. Remove seeds and dry quickly. The handle of the basket can be carved, and a simple pattern can also be applied to the sides of the pumpkin.

This pumpkin craft will be interesting to do with children. Use the suggested sketches on the Internet, and feel free to get to work.

Finally, I would like to note that you can make pumpkin crafts all winter, brightening up cold evenings. And the received products will be pleasant to present to your friends and family. Believe me, such a reminder of warm days will bring them a lot of pleasure!

DIY pumpkin crafts can not only be timed to coincide with Halloween or the autumn harvest festival. Let us recall that it is in the fall that there are a huge number of them, both decorative and fruit, with bright orange sides, which are attractive even without any processing. I just want to take one of them as a basis to practice doing.

Children's hand-made pumpkin craft

You can please children with finished works if they depict their favorite cartoon characters, little men, animal figurines. DIY pumpkin crafts for children (photo such a bear you see above) are performed according to the principle of similar ones - material of different shapes is cut or taken whole, connected into a single whole using the available fasteners, and at the end it can already be fixed more securely so that the composition can be easily moved from place to place. Fasteners that will help us in the case of vegetables in general can be toothpicks or matches with sharpened ends. And at the final stage, you can use small pieces of transparent tape or super-glue, which will not be visible at all on the surface. To complete the work, one first thinks about what material will be used, what shape is needed, how to cut it in order to achieve the most decorative effect.

The inner pulp of the vegetable, in the event that you want the finished work to last longer (for example, if you want to do it), it is better to remove it to the maximum, because it will deteriorate in the first place. This technique can be based on hollowing out the pulp through holes in the surface of the vegetable or on cutting, the so-called carving. Because DIY pumpkin and zucchini crafts in the carving technique, even not the most difficult one, is a rather laborious process, it is performed with a sharp knife and requires certain skills, then they are used most often by professionals. Especially when it comes to pumpkin, which has a fairly hard skin. Therefore, carving elements can be carving scary faces for Halloween or similar decor used at other times of the year.

, which are shown in the photo example, demonstrate how a traditional technique can be used when decorating a country flower garden. Hollowed-out vegetables make great flower pots or even pots. Here we can face the danger of high humidity and contact of the peel with the soil, which can cause it to rot and deteriorate, even if you scrubbed and dried it thoroughly enough.

To avoid this, the blank for the pot must be completely varnished and painted, moreover, preferably not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Such a flower bed will look much more original than a decorated one, because after all, natural materials will not contrast with the surrounding landscape.

DIY autumn crafts from pumpkin

Cope with the task of do-it-yourself autumn pumpkin crafts non-standard approaches to the topic can help us. After all, not only scary faces can be a symbol of a scary Halloween, but also other interesting characters that can be made from pot-bellied orange vegetables. We will show a few examples of how to approach the issue of autumn works in a non-standard way.

To create faithful companions of evil spirits - cats as black as night itself, we need two pumpkins, one of which is slightly smaller than the second. The task that we will face is, in principle, not very difficult. If you want the pumpkin cats to stay with you longer, you can gouge the middle and dry the material, and if you need them literally for one week or for a short-term participation in the children's show, you can simply remove the seeds from the inside. The main condition is the most even cuts on both halves of the future figure, since they must fit together as tightly as possible. Small toothpicks, sharp on both sides, will help to attach both halves to each other reliably enough. They are stuck in a circle into the cut of the lower half, and then the upper part is pushed on top. The bond is decorated with a piece of tape in a contrasting color. You can paint, draw a face or depict with applique fabric, colored paper, both at the preliminary stage and after the connection.

Still, black cats are more cute than scary, and for a theme party, the rule is that the scary the better. Therefore the following DIY decorative pumpkin crafts, photo which you see above are scary spider candlesticks. Materials that will be useful to you will be small decorative pumpkins, a small piece of special "shaggy" wire, which can be bought in hand-made stores. Scrape the pumpkin not large enough to fit inside a small candle-tablet. If your color is the same as in the example, covered with specks and dots, then you can not cover it with paint, but cover it with transparent varnish. But only after you have pierced all eight pieces of wire that will serve as the spider's legs. The film of varnish will not fix the wire sufficiently, so it is better to first make holes, drip a small amount of varnish inside, and then insert the wire and fix it.

Craft from a decorative pumpkin with your own hands

One example DIY decorative pumpkin crafts we have already looked. Such vegetables are not very well suited for cooking, but they can be used to decorate the interior wonderfully. And working with small specimens is much easier, faster and more enjoyable.

can be decorated with table decor in beautiful dishes, and another area of application of such a decor is serving a festive table, in which such small pumpkins can be put next to each guest's plate. If your interior decor focuses on natural materials, then it is better to leave a natural look for each of them, covering it with transparent varnish. The composition, which is located in a transparent container, will look more spectacular if there are not the same elements, but different ones. Ideally, if pumpkins grow in your garden, then you can not grow individual varieties, but pick young, only formed vegetables.

The living room can be decorated with pumpkins from a variety of materials. Pumpkin pillows (we have already told you of this type), lamp shades, mobiles look very beautiful. For all this, you can use vegetables, the surface of which is completely covered with spray paint.

How to make a pumpkin craft with your own hands

Other decoration methods are suitable for those who do not want to paint the surface of the vegetable. Indeed, in fact, the ways how to make a pumpkin craft with your own hands using fabric, thread or sewing accessories.

Knitted texture is in vogue, so we will use multi-colored woolen yarn to decorate the surface. Whichever method of wrapping you use, you will need to secure the threads with glue. For it to work better, the crust must be pre-treated. In addition to the fact that it needs to be washed and cleaned, it can also be treated with any alcohol-containing liquid. But if you skip this stage, then nothing terrible will happen. Wrap up from below in any way convenient for you or in the way that seems the most beautiful. You can use our example as a guide to action. With vertical and horizontal, everything is more or less clear, but in order to make figures or braids, you need to act more inventively. For example, mark patterns on the surface with a simple pencil, and then fill them with layers of thread or twist a spiral, and then glue them to an empty space.

You can also decorate with multi-colored braid, which fills the spaces between the vertical ribs. The brighter and more varied the braid is, the brighter the work you will end up with. It is also the easiest to glue, as in the case of woolen threads, but it will be more convenient to use a heat gun, applying hot glue literally at several points.

The applique made with buttons can be either with the image of patterns, animals, or folded into words. For a similar DIY pumpkin crafts master class will be quite simple, but before sticking the buttons, it is better to fold the entire composition on the table in advance, on a paper template, and then draw the outlines of this template on the crust. In this case, it is better to take the buttons one at a time, starting with the largest in size, and then "finish off" the empty space with the rest

DIY pumpkin crafts photo

And a few more DIY pumpkin crafts, photo which you will see below will have not only decorative, but also quite applied value. The first one is made on the basis of a pumpkin of an unusual shape.

Since such a lamp is filled from the inside with a source of illumination, we do not have the question of whether to extract the pulp or not. It is completely selected, and the vegetable itself is dried in the oven or in another convenient way. If you plan to insert an electric lamp inside, and place the finished product in the interior, then you can not take care of the cover very much, on the contrary, the more holes there are, the brighter it will be in the room, and the light will be scattered by spectacular rays.

If you want the luminaire to become a cover for garden lamps, then the cover on top will be needed as protection from the rain.

Also, you can get a wonderful thing and beautiful, and very useful for feeding birds in winter. Care must be taken that the pumpkin is not only beautiful on the outside, but also suitable for the main task. Therefore, we do not touch the top, we make a hole in the middle so that the food container is deep, and in front of the hole we drive in a small peg so that the bird can sit on it when landing.

What crafts can be made from pumpkin with your own hands

The first thing that comes to mind is a Halloween pumpkin. On this holiday, the pumpkin head is found everywhere, and in our country the idea was picked up fairly quickly. The second is pumpkin vases. But we have a separate publication about them. What else?

The easiest crafts to perform are all kinds of boxes, candlesticks, lanterns, salt shakers. More difficult items to make are made of dried pumpkin - kitchen utensils, handbags.

Cool faces - crafts from pumpkin

Cool faces - pumpkin crafts for the garden

DIY pumpkin crafts for children

A fireplace or a shelf in the living room can be decorated with such an original craft as a clock from a round pumpkin.

Crafts from a large pumpkin - clock

If you are a happy owner of a garden, then fill it with street lamps and lanterns, a birdhouse, an intricate pumpkin washstand.

Pumpkins decorated with fresh flowers, sparkles, autumn leaves look luxurious. This is perhaps one of the best decorations for an autumn interior.

And with the help of paints, you can make beautiful patterns.

How to make pumpkin crafts: highlights

Getting acquainted with the pumpkin as a material for crafts, it is best to get your hand on objects that are easy to perform, and only after that move on to more complex crafts.

We select the tool

For the manufacture of a particular craft, it is necessary to properly prepare the tools at hand. Most often you will need:

long knife;
a scraper or spoon to remove the pulp from the pumpkin;
paper for faster drying of the pumpkin;
thin paper, coal;
an awl to make small holes;
Scotch;
paint, cutter and so on.

We select and dry the pumpkin

How to dry a pumpkin for crafts

Crafts from dried pumpkin

We start to create

To make making pumpkin crafts with your own hands give you a lot of pleasure, use our tips:

if the pumpkin was dried whole, then before removing the seeds from it, pour water inside, then rinse the pumpkin;
To apply a pattern to a vegetable, you must first apply it to thin paper, then use adhesive tape to glue it to the pumpkin and use an awl to "pierce" the pattern along the contour. After you remove the paper, wipe the craft with charcoal, it will help fix the drawing. The second option is to use ordinary carbon paper to apply the pattern;
the drawing is finally applied on a well-dried pumpkin using a jigsaw or a wood-burning device;
on a fresh pumpkin, you can apply a drawing with an ordinary vegetable cutter;
if you decide to use paints, then give preference to acrylic;
do not varnish the craft, the pumpkin should breathe;
if the fresh pumpkin craft begins to dry out, dip it in water for several hours;
cut the drawing from the center;
if you unsuccessfully cut out a part of the pattern in a fresh pumpkin, you can return the cut piece with the help of a wire.

Pumpkin Crafts for Beginners

Having fired up with the idea to create something, I don't want to wait 6 months. Therefore, we bring to your attention the simplest crafts made from natural material - from pumpkin.

Pumpkin candle

Prepare a small pumpkin as described above. After quick drying, gently fix the wick at the bottom of the pumpkin, pour the wax inside. You can use scented candle wax.

Small candles - round pumpkin crafts

Candlestick

Pumpkin basket

This pumpkin craft will be interesting to do with children. Use the suggested sketches on the Internet, and feel free to get to work.

Good day everyone! Well, what is the mood, how did you congratulate your beloved teachers yesterday, what and

Well, now, as is always customary, or so to speak, it is customary to hold children's exhibitions and fairs on the autumn theme of crafts from various materials in schools and kindergartens, you were given an assignment so that you would bring a handmade craft. Mostly, these can be crafts made from various vegetables such as zucchini, eggplant, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. as well as natural materials.

Of course, the most popular craft is a large pumpkin craft made in any interesting way.

Have you ever taken part in such a way, perhaps even won some prizes or gifts? I remember at school we always had such funny events every year. It was very interesting and fun to see who made what.

In this article I offer you beautiful crafts that you can do very quickly and easily at home yourself, but if you have preschool children, then together with your child.

DIY pumpkin crafts for kindergarten children

I offer the smallest kids such options for work, I think they will not be too difficult to perform.

I remember in one of my articles, namely, I already told you about such an easy application. I hope that you will apply the knowledge gained in it to the pumpkin.

This is done this way, apply PVA glue on the pumpkin, take paper colored napkins, separate the thinnest layer and attach it to the smeared pumpkin, then smear it with glue on the napkin again. Let dry and you have a magnificent masterpiece.

Interesting! You can also take a cotton fabric as a basis, it will also easily stick.

2. Painted creation with a marker. You can depict any plot or picture, funny faces or anything that your favorite baby wants to draw, for example, butterflies, flowers, a house, geometric shapes, etc.

3. Very often, for the competition, they use variants of presenting a pumpkin in the form of an owl or a chicken.

Make templates of blanks out of colored paper or fabric and let your child glue them on their own.

Moreover, such work can be performed both from the pumpkin itself and from its seeds.

4. Also, as one of the options, you can make such an ingenious masterpiece using acrylic paints, just paint the spear with a brush in a circle in different colors.

Important! Apply the first layer of white all over the vegetable to brighten all other colors later.

Handicrafts from pumpkins for an exhibition at school on the theme "Autumn has come"

For children of school age, the task becomes more complicated, many different creative expositions can be made.

1. The most common is such a scary head. It is usually made for Halloween in November, but here it has a place to be.

It will not be difficult to make it either, remove, cut off the stalk. And with a knife, you can even remove all the pulp with the seeds with your hands. Well, after the creative process, use a knife to make the necessary holes, for example, such as in this photo, initially outline the features of a funny face with a simple pencil.

Here are some new ideas for you:

2. The most common option, children madly love it, are pumpkin carriages. I suggest you watch this video and learn how to make such a miracle yourself:

3. For lazy fidgets, you can make a funny craft). I think everyone will have fun! After all, the main thing is participation and a little effort and imagination, and you can even make such a weirdo:

Do not forget to decorate it with leaves or dried flowers.

4. From any newspaper and magazine old editions, for example, TV magazines for a week, you can make such a mysterious autumn lady "Autumn".

5. If you do not have a lot of free time, then the task is still the same. Then there are some simple and fairly quick options for crafts from this autumn orange vegetable that I found on the Internet:

6. Well, the very last option, together with other vegetables, such as zucchini. Such a mischievous snail on a leaf, you need half a zucchini and half a pumpkin.

Master class "Autumn pumpkin craft"

I suggest you make the most likely lightweight and at the same time pleasant in every sense of the plot, this is an autumn composition of flowers, namely "Bouquet in a pumpkin". Which, by the way, can be presented as a gift or souvenir for any holiday that is celebrated in October, for example. It will look creative and incredibly beautiful and original at the same time.

We need:

pumpkin - 1 pc.
water - 1 tbsp.
knife - 1 pc.
scissors - 1 pc.
floristic sponge - 2 pcs. or one big
natural flowers - bouquet

Stages of work:

1. First of all, grab the pumpkin, carefully cut the top with a knife.

2. Now take out all the orange pulp with seeds.

3. Take a floral sponge and cut it in half with water.

4. Make it like this with a knife so that it fits completely into the hole, that is, corresponds to the diameter of the pumpkin.

5. Place it inward.

6. Well sprinkle the sponge with water so that it absorbs as much as possible, and then the flowers will stand not for a day or two, but for two or three weeks.

8. Start to collect the composition by simply sticking the stems to the sponge.

9. Here is such a beautiful and sunny chic creation, the craft will turn out, the main thing is to want to make it and it will delight you and others for a very long time.

Another very original and peculiar decor for an exhibition at a school can be made - this is a flashlight or a candlestick. Moreover, the Halloween holiday is just around the corner, perhaps you will make such an invention for it:

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