Fall is a perfect time to showcase an abundance of rich, vibrant color in your outdoor decorating, with pumpkins, gourds, mums and other natural elements that are readily available during the autumn season.
Use a drill with a 1" spade bit to place two holes - one in each scrap on top of each other - into the wood.Place two pieces of scrap 2 x 4s in the bottom of the planter in an "X.".Use the sanding drum attachment to sand out the inside of the teeth, nose, and eyes.
Cut into your pumpkins and cut out the faces using a Dremel tool. Draw faces on each one of the pumpkins with a pencil.Place this Halloween topiary by an outlet or use an extension cord. The bottom pumpkin will obviously go into a light plug. If any of the pumpkins get chipped at all during the craft process, you can use acrylic paint to touch it up. If the wood splits a bit while you are drilling a hole into it, it’s fine. Ours is about 12″ tall and 19 1/4″ wide at the top. You’ll need to choose a planter for your Halloween topiary. The cutting will have left ragged edges, and the sander smooths them out, which is why will use it. you can see we didn’t quite cut on the lines. Keep in mind it doesn’t have to be exact. You can cut out the templates and trace them if you like, or hand draw like we did.Ĭutting out the pumpkin faces is the most time consuming part of the process. We just picked five different templates for carving online they are very easy to find by Googling. Once you’ve picked your pumpkins, choose your faces. You can use any color faux pumpkins, or you can paint (with acrylic or spray paint) to be any color you like. NOTE: I haven’t found craft pumpkins with the concrete finish since this post was done.
Pumpkin front porch decor full#
Use your coupon for the craft pumpkins or grab them on a sale that happens frequently during the holiday season! I’d never pay full price for craft pumpkins (insider tip!). They were about 9″ each and we chose three black and two cement colored pumpkins. These are the type of craft pumpkins we used. Things that were learned through the process!įirst you need to pick your pumpkins. You can get the full tutorial at the bottom of this post, but I did want to share a few tips for you.
You could also use this multi-purpose cutting bit instead of the tile cutting bit, but we had the tile cutting bit so we used it! Dremel 4000 tool – with the tile cutting bit and sanding drum.5 strands of Christmas lights for outdoor use – we got these.Five faux pumpkins in various colors – we got ours at Michaels.There are some steps to it, but it’s not hard. We worked together to design this fun pumpkin decor that could be put outside on a front porch for the holiday. He spotted the black and concrete ones in the bin and declared “I’m going to make a pumpkin topiary!” So what’s a girl to do but support her man in his Halloween decorating endeavors? And that’s exactly what I did. I made the mistake (?) of dragging him a long to Michaels to grab some supplies, and I needed some craft pumpkins. Sometimes you get a brilliant holiday DIY project idea – in this case it was Steve.
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