Cute Pumpkin DIY Crafts for Fall;

This is the Cutest little decorative craft for your house that would be fun to make and super inexpensive. If
you're a crafter, you will have these materials just laying around! So why not make these lovely little pumpkins and decorate your house for Fall. Have fun guys! Let me know how it works out for you. This tutorial is curtesy of Craftaholics Anonymous. I'll post a link to their website for you to check out!





supplies {makes approx 7 mini paper pumpkins}
-12″x12″ sheet of orange cardstock {or you could use pattern paper for a fun twist}
-scraps of green or brown cardstock
-1″ circle punch
-low heat glue gun
-pen



cut your 12″x12″ into 2.5″ by 0.5″ strips except for the last 2″x12″ strip. use your 1″ circle punch and cut out 14- 1″ circles.



using your glue gun, glue the small strips of paper to the circle, overlapping them slightly. glue strips all the way around the circle. depending on how much you over lap them, it will take between 7 to 10 strips per pumpkin. {i used 9 strips on most of mine.

 

**if you’re using thick cardstock, you’ll want to bend your strips so that you they make a nice rounded shape. to bend your strips, you can bend the strips indiviudally before you glue them to the circle
OR you can bend them after you’ve glued them to the circle by putting them in your hands and cupping your fingers.

 
take a second 1″ circle and glue the strips underneath with your glue gun.



i found that it worked best to pull the strips up indivudally, place a dot of glue on them, and then press them to the underside of the circle. that helped keep the circles lined up and the pumpkin from being lopsided.



the last strip is slightly tricky to press down because my fingers didn’t fit in the small gaps between the strips. so i used a pen to press the last strip into place.



this is what your pumpkin should look like. if you want a short, fat pumpkin, you can smash it slightly. or if you want a taller, skinner pumpkin, press the strips together so the circles are pushed away from each other.



using your scraps of green or brown paper {preferrably cardstock}, cut a 0.25 inch by 0.75 inch strip for the stem. bend over a small section so that you can glue the stem to the pumpkin.