It’s time to get into the fall holiday spirit! Today, I’m sharing the easiest DIY tutorial that will give your home the perfect festive touch for the season. I mean, how COOL are these flower pumpkins?! I’m obsessed. I know it looks like these might be a lot of work to create, but I promise you they aren’t! BONUS – they’ll last a long time, if cared for correctly.
Materials:
- Array of pumpkins in different sizes and colors
- Succulents (1-2 big ones, 4-5 small ones)
- Mini Mums (2 plants)
- Moss Filler
- Serrated knife for pumpkin carving
Directions:
Once you’ve secured your materials, lay them out on newspaper or scrap paper you have in the home. You’ll want to visually see how much stuff you have, so you can start pairing the flowers and succulents with each pumpkin.
I knew I wanted to put the vibrant mums inside of the white pumpkins, so that was an easy pair to come up with. Then, all you do is….use the serrated knife and cut a hole around the stem of the pumpkin. Pull out the stem, so you have a small hole to start working with. From there, use your knife to make the circle bigger and bigger until can fit your plant inside of the pumpkin. Take out all the insides, just like you’re carving a normal pumpkin. P.S. save the seeds to bake – YUM)!
The succulents were a bit trickier because I knew they wouldn’t fit as easily as the mums did, but that’s why you have your moss filler!! Repeat the same steps as above. Except, I wouldn’t carve as DEEP as you did for the mums because succulents are smaller in nature. They need something to sit on in order to be seen from up top! I really like how this orange pumpkin turned out, and I hid all the carving imperfections with the moss. My best advice: go overboard with the moss for some really dramatic pumpkins.
And that’s pretty much it! What do you guys think? Is it easy enough to do on your own? xoxo – lauren
