Pumpkin crafts for autumn holidays for school and kindergarten

DIY autumn crafts from pumpkins for school

Every student wants to bring a real masterpiece to school that both teachers and children will like. After all, we all love when we are praised. Therefore, before you sit down to make an autumn pumpkin craft for school, consider a selection of works.

With a set of simple acrylic paints, you can create a beautiful and vibrant masterpiece.

Using a regular brush, cover the pumpkin with a thin layer of white paint. This is necessary so that the bright colors lie more easily on the pumpkin.

After the white layer, apply colored paints in stripes so that each strip overlaps the previous one.

School-age children are already familiar with such a holiday as Halloween and want to learn how to make such an attribute as Jack’s scary head. First of all, you need to cut off the stem and remove all the pulp inside the pumpkin. After this, the creative process of cutting out the muzzle begins.

There can be an endless number of options for Jack's face - you can take a sample or come up with it yourself.

You can combine pumpkin crafts and creating a beautiful ikebana. Such a bouquet can be an original and creative gift or work for an exhibition.

Materials:

• 1 pumpkin
• 1 glass of water
• Knife
• Scissors
• Floral sponge
• Natural flowers

First cut off the top of the pumpkin with a knife, and then remove the pulp. We put a floral sponge inside, having previously created the necessary shape.

Place the sponge into the pumpkin and fill it with water. It must be soaked so that the flowers can stand for more than one day, or even more than a week. Trim the stems of each flower.

Such a bright bouquet of crafts can decorate any exhibition or room.

Having a rich imagination and a little creativity, you can make a funny face out of a pumpkin. We cut out details from colored paper - eyes, lips, tongue, and you can attach them with glue.

You can also use acrylic paints to create funny faces.

How to prepare a pumpkin for crafting

Craftsmen use sharp knives with thin blades. A small cap is cut off with a tool so that a hand can fit into the hole. Then carefully clean the inside of the seeds and dry the walls with a paper towel.

For clarity, I suggest watching a short video. A skilled craftsman will show you how to peel a pumpkin and then use a regular knife to carve a funny face.

This craft will certainly decorate the interior of your apartment and add a cheerful mood to the upcoming party.

If you want to preserve your masterpiece for many years, I advise you to first dry the vegetable.

Clear the cavity of seeds and wipe the inner and outer walls dry.

Now place the pumpkin in the oven (t=80) or microwave (600 Watt). Keep the vegetable in a hot atmosphere for about 2-3 hours (depending on the size), but do not forget to turn the pumpkin so that it does not burn and dries evenly.

Pumpkin crafts for kindergarten on the theme of Golden Autumn

Painting a pumpkin with a permanent marker will look bright. This is a marker for CDs. With its help, a DIY pumpkin for a kindergarten exhibition can turn out to be unusual and will not require much time to make. You can complement the pumpkin look with various accessories.

To make such a pumpkin craft for a kindergarten for an exhibition, we don’t need much.

Materials:

• Pumpkin of the desired shape
• Carrot
• Parsnip
• Cutting board
• Knife, glue, marker
• Toothpicks
• Black paper
• Accessories (glasses, hat)

Vegetables need to be cleaned of dirt, so wash them thoroughly. Trim off the thick edge of the parsnip. Insert a toothpick into the middle of the cut and use it to attach the spout to the pumpkin.

The carrot spout can be attached in the same way to another pumpkin.

Use a marker to draw a smile under your nose

You can cut a mustache out of black felt and glue it to the pumpkin to create the look of Mr. Pumpkin.

It will be interesting for kids to create a cartoon character from a pumpkin with their own hands.

One of the favorite cartoons of kids is the story about Thomas the Tank Engine. So we’ll make it out of pumpkin.

Materials:

• Pumpkin
• Acrylic paints
• Brush
• Glue
• Eyes
• Colored paper
• cotton wool
• Scissors
• Toilet paper roll

The pumpkin must be cleaned and dried. Paint the surface of the pumpkin with blue paint. Most likely, you will have to paint in two stages.

We cut out a large circle from black paper, and another circle from white paper, but a little smaller. We glue the eyes to the white circle, and draw the nose and eyebrows.

Cover the sleeve with black paper. Glue the black circle onto the pumpkin.

We made a chimney out of the sleeve, stuffing some cotton wool into it to simulate smoke.

Cutting unusual locks

A pumpkin house can be absolutely anything. There is no perfect home or structure. It all depends on your endless imagination. Imagine your pumpkin castle and feel free to get to work. It is not necessary to build windows and doors. You can simply cut out the desired house (its outline) on one side of the vegetable.

You can, for example, cut out fairy-tale huts. Of course, to create such a masterpiece, you need to be patient. Before starting work, draw a rough sketch. You need to place a candle in the center of the vegetable. As soon as twilight falls on the earth, feel free to light the wick and enjoy the unusual play of light.

DIY pumpkin carriage: step-by-step master class

Pumpkin is not only a tasty, healthy and medicinal product, a material for school crafts, but also pumpkin has long been the hero of the fairy tale about Cinderella. Everyone remembers how at midnight the girl’s carriage turns into a pumpkin.

When you mention pumpkin crafts for a school competition, many people will see a pumpkin carriage before their eyes. Let's look at how to make a craft for an exhibition below.

Materials:

• Pumpkin
• Wire
• Plasticine
• Paper
• PVA glue
• Paint – gold or silver
• Knife

Let's start with the wheels. To do this, we make wheels and spokes from wire, fixing them with plasticine. We cover the wheels with white paper. The wheels are connected to each other with wire and painted.

Before proceeding to the cabin, cut off the top of the pumpkin and take out the insides. The carriage can also be pre-painted in any color. When the paint dries, draw windows on the pumpkin and, if you like everything, cut it out.

Using a golden outline we create a rich look for the carriage.

Let's attach the wheels to the carriage cabin and put a candle inside.

Some pumpkin carriages amaze you with how much skill and imagination the craftsman has.

Pumpkin flowerpot

You can also make not only a vase with fresh flowers, but also a pot for indoor plants. The manufacturing technique is the same, but there is one point.

If you want to insert a flowerpot into a pumpkin, remember that all flowerpots have a hole at the bottom. The water will leak and quickly ruin the pumpkin. Therefore, you must first place a sealed pot in the pumpkin,

and then insert a flowerpot with flowers into it.

See more beautiful photos of vases and pumpkin planters and get inspired!

DIY autumn pumpkin composition

Decorating your home interior in autumn style is not at all difficult. Autumn is associated with yellow leaves, pine cones and, of course, harvest. But potatoes are unlikely to become a beautiful decoration, but pumpkin is exactly the vegetable that can be used for decoration.

The principle of creating compositions from pumpkins is the same, but the results are completely different, because the main point in this craft is the presence of flowers and imagination.

Materials:

• Pumpkin
• Floral sponge
• Scotch
• Scissors
• Flowers
• Leaves

Cut off the top of the pumpkin and clean out the insides.

You can additionally remove excess moisture inside the pumpkin using paper napkins.

Take the required size of sponge and soak it in water

Putting a sponge into a pumpkin

Wrap the pumpkin in foil using tape to secure it.

Tip: if you decide to use artificial flowers, then you don’t need to use a sponge or do not wet it.

When the base is ready, you can begin the most exciting part - decorating with flowers.

In this place you can use all kinds of decorative elements - flowers, twigs, leaves, spikelets. The result should be bright and unusual.

Artistic image of a pumpkin

In addition to using the vegetable itself, its image is often used, making fakes from different materials, because it is filled with the magic of autumn and is the main symbol of the late harvest. In preschool educational institutions there are pictures of pumpkins for children, which they must decorate with autumn-themed patterns, complete the hat and tail, or simply exercise complete freedom of creativity.

Applique of pumpkin seeds on the theme of Autumn

If you are going to make a craft from a pumpkin, then most often you have to free it from the insides, then the question may arise - where to put the seeds. And since we often feel sorry for throwing something away, we can consider how to make an applique from pumpkin seeds. Wood can be a great applique idea.

First you need to rinse them thoroughly and dry them.

The seeds will look beautiful on the applique if you paint them with different colors.

If you need a small number of seeds for work, you can color them individually.

But if the number of seeds is large, then place them in a bag, add paint or dye to it and mix. Paints can be anything - acrylic, gouache, oil. When the seeds are sufficiently saturated with paint, place them on paper and let dry.

The tree applique made from pumpkin seeds looks beautiful.

Making such a panel is quite simple - draw a tree trunk on a sheet of paper, or make it out of colored paper. Place pre-colored seeds on the branches of the tree.

Add a few seeds under the tree, simulating fallen leaves.

In addition to wood, you can come up with other themes for creating an applique from pumpkin seeds.

Pumpkin crafts for children

Many children love to make various fakes and appliqués with their own hands, and with the onset of autumn, new materials open up for creativity. In kindergartens, they often pay attention to making fakes from pumpkin seeds, as this develops hand motor skills and imagination.

Before starting work, they must be processed:

1. Wash well with soapy water and dry on newspaper.
2. Paint with paint and let it dry.

A common work in this style is wood. Its outline, cut from brown or gray paper, is glued onto white or blue cardboard. Next, pumpkin seeds, painted in yellow and orange tones, are also glued to the branches of the tree, imitating leaves.

You can depict leaf fall by placing them near a tree, or you can line the trunk itself with seeds. In addition, various pictures can be created from them. The cardboard must be greased with a middle layer of plasticine and pumpkin seeds of various colors should be attached to it, imitating any pattern or picture.

Making pumpkin toys is also popular in kindergartens because it is very simple and entertaining.

DIY pumpkin house: craft for children

Pumpkin houses turn out beautiful. Depending on the shape of the vegetable, you can make two-story mansions, or you can simply make large houses from a large, flatter pumpkin. Crafting a house is painstaking work and not as quick in time as it might seem. After all, you need to think through every detail. You can make a pumpkin house with your own hands in different ways, but in all of them, first of all, you need to remove the insides and dry the vegetable.

Materials:

• Pumpkin
• Chestnuts
• The base for the house is plywood or thick cardboard
• Green corrugated paper
• Acrylic paints, hot glue
• Foamiran
• Satin ribbons
• Cotton swabs, scissors
• Dough
• Wire – aluminum, floral

Prepare a square base and wash the pumpkin.

Draw out details on the pumpkin with a felt-tip pen - windows, doors

Let's make a template out of paper so that we can then transfer it to the foamiran. We decorate the details from Thomas - you can draw or make appliqués.

We make salt dough according to the classic recipe: salt, flour, water. Mix everything in one container.

We need to make a stork from salt dough. First we sculpt the body and head, and connect them together using wire, which we also cover with dough to hide. We make wings, a tail and steps from the dough. Let's also cut out a rectangle for the bench. Place all the elements in the oven at 100 degrees for 3 hours. The pumpkin needs to be glued to a board and covered with corrugated paper.

Cover the backing with green paper and attach the pumpkin to it. We will paint the place of the window on the pumpkin black and glue the parts from Thomas. In the meantime, the elements of the craft have been cooked in the oven; they can be taken out and cooled. Attach the threshold in front of the door.

We attach long legs to the stork and paint the feet.

We will place the stork on the pumpkin and paste chestnuts around it. We make a flower from pieces of red ribbon: we scorch the edges with fire and glue the parts onto a cotton swab. We use a chestnut instead of a vase. We continue to decorate our composition. This way we will have a flower and a bench. We'll use an acorn to make a lantern over the door.

All that remains is to work on the details and finalization - we will paint the path and threshold. We make a fence out of chestnuts, connecting the chestnuts with skewers.

You can make a romantic pumpkin house craft.

Pumpkin arrangement

A pumpkin house can be made not only as a separate craft, but also as an entire composition. Such works are well suited for an exhibition or as a holiday decoration. For example, the same Halloween. Why make a scary house with a candle inside when you can make such a wonderful composition.

To make such a craft, in addition to a large pumpkin, you will also need several small ones. You will also need autumn leaves (they can be replaced with artificial ones) and plasticine for sculpting figures.

How to make a house out of a pumpkin? Perhaps at first glance the composition will seem quite complicated, but everything is done simply. As usual, we start with pumpkin. In this version, we cut off not the top, but the side part, so that we get something like a large window. It will be easy to remove the seeds and pulp through such a large hole. Now dry the pumpkin.

While it's drying, you can take small pumpkins and coat them with varnish. Make the necessary figures from plasticine. It is not at all necessary to adapt to the photo shown here. Make up your own mind. After the pumpkin has dried, we place a tray from a plant pot inside it and fill it with moss. We place molded figures and small pumpkins on this moss. We also decorate the outside with leaves and pumpkins. As a result, we will get a hand-made pumpkin house, as in the photo

Autumn crafts made from pumpkin seeds

Kids love to get creative using natural materials for creativity. You can make original and fun crafts from simple pumpkin seeds.

This chicken is made from plasticine and seeds. First, we sculpt the body of a chicken from plasticine, and then stick the seeds into it.

You can make a cute hedgehog in the same way.

Chickens made from pumpkin seeds can turn out very beautiful. This chicken can be made from two foam balls of different diameters. Glue them with seeds using PVA glue or a hot gun.

DIY pumpkin owl

The shape of the pumpkin itself can tell us what kind of craft we can make from this vegetable. And the simplest craft option may be an owl. It can be in two versions - from one pumpkin, or take two pumpkins for the head and for the body.

An owl made from pumpkin and seeds is quite simple. The pumpkin can be cleaned of the insides in advance. And we decorate the outside using a variety of materials - felt, paper, seeds.

Materials:

• Brush
• Felt
• Paper
• Felt pen
• Pen
• Glue
• Scissors
• Eyes

Wash the pumpkin first. The stalk must be cut off. If you find a light-colored pumpkin, you can pre-paint it with orange paint. We make a pattern of parts from paper.

We need to make a blank for the eyebrows, face, beak, wings. Then draw circles for the eyes. We transfer the details to felt; it is better to choose a material in brown tones. For example, we will cut out the largest ones from purple felt, and two more from blue felt. Let the smallest ones be yellow or orange. We make the wings from gray or light brown felt. At the top you can attach some light details in the form of rectangles to imitate feathers. We make a beak from a diamond-shaped part. First fasten all the parts of the owl's face together.

It is better to make the beak voluminous. To do this, make a cut at the top and bend it into a gutter shape, tucking in the corners.

The owl's face is almost ready. We place the wings at the same level on the sides. Let's attach a face to the pumpkin. And at the end we glue the eyes.

You can make an owl using pumpkin and seeds, which can be used white or pre-painted.

DIY pumpkin seed panel

You can make a panel of pumpkin seeds with your own hands as a gift or for an exhibition at school.

Materials:

• Glue, twine
• Seeds
• Threads
• Leaves
• Letochka
• Sackcloth
• The basis
• Varnish

We cover a piece of cardboard approximately 30*35 in size with burlap.

Cut out circles from cardboard and cover them with seeds in a circle.

We place flowers on the base in any shape and glue them. We lay a green thread or twine between them

Glue bay leaves between the flowers.

You can use more dried flowers in creating panels.

Pumpkin seed tree: how to make a craft

Pumpkin seeds are an interesting material for creativity. You can use them to make both an applique and a three-dimensional craft. A craft tree made from pumpkin seeds is made in the form of a topiary.

For the base of the topiary, take paper. We make a ball out of it and wrap it with masking tape. We make a hole at the bottom and insert a stick or a broken felt-tip pen. Apply PVA glue to the ball and paste it with seeds to completely cover the surface. Instead of a base, you can use a foam blank in the form of a ball. You can complement the ball with other elements - beads, ribbons. Cover a jar of a suitable size with twine.

Fill the jar with alabaster and insert a stick with a ball into it.

Crafts for exhibition at school

Every 7-8 year old schoolchild can create a holiday with his own hands. Crafts for schoolchildren from the gifts of autumn can be turned into a very exciting process. Schoolchildren confidently wield scissors, know how to glue and imagine on various topics.

For 1-2 grades

At this age, children make more complex crafts using a variety of techniques. Pumpkin, even a small one, can be a rather heavy and bulky vegetable. Therefore, some points of the step-by-step instructions are recommended to be completed with the help of adults. Wash, dry, make cuts of the desired shape, remove the internal contents, fill it with something.

First and second graders can already draw well. Therefore, to simplify your task, you can use markers and felt-tip pens to make some amazing hero.

Turtle

The pumpkin turtle is easy to make and looks original. To do this, just take half a pumpkin - it will be used as a shell. On the top of the shell you need to draw a similar pattern with a marker or felt-tip pen. Then take five potatoes. They will perform the function of the head and limbs. Connect them to the shell using skewers. You can decorate it using plasticine and available materials.

Flowers made from pumpkin seeds: DIY craft

Pumpkin seeds are an easily accessible material and can be found without problems even in winter. Therefore, if you need to make a craft for school from pumpkin seeds with your own hands, it will not be difficult.

Flowers made from pumpkin seeds are unusual and easy to create.

Materials:

• Pumpkin seeds
• Peas
• PVA glue
• Sackcloth
• Compass, pencil, ruler
• Jute
• Brush, acrylic paints
• Scissors
• Cardboard
• Hot glue

Soak the burlap in glue in advance so that it does not fall off. Pre-mix the glue with water 1:1. Dry the burlap and iron it. For the base of each flower, we cut out round blanks from cardboard. Glue the seeds in layers in a circle.

Turn the flower over to the reverse side and glue a row of seeds on the reverse side. We will cover the petals of our pumpkin seed flowers with white paint.

Let's make parts from cardboard - a circle with a diameter of 6 cm and a petal 7 cm high and 4 cm long. We transfer the cardboard blanks to burlap. You need 3 circles, and 6 petals. Glue the round burlap pieces onto the back side of the flowers. Glue a jute thread along the edge of the burlap petals.

We make flower stems by wrapping floral tape around a wooden skewer. We make a hole in the center of the round flower blank and attach the stem. Glue yellow peas in the center of the flower and fill it with PVA.

Glue two petals to the stem.

Three beautiful pumpkin seed flowers will take their place in a beautiful little vase in the kitchen.

Flower design may be different. You can also paint the edges of the seeds and make a bud that has not yet opened

Pumpkin souvenirs Gifts of autumn quickly and very beautifully

Well, in conclusion of everything, I would like to give many more ideas. Which you can implement and conquer your friends and classmates with them when autumn-themed events take place. We usually had fairs. And you?

Of course, I took the photos from the Internet and share my findings. Take vegetables and fruits, leaves, twigs, dried flowers and create! Let your imagination fly.

Well, that's all, with this I say goodbye to you. I hope you liked these ideas and you will certainly create something yourself at home, and then show it to everyone.

Good luck, creative success! Goodbye!

Pumpkin soups, porridges, mousses, pumpkin baked with spices... In gastronomic terms, this vegetable has been underestimated for a long time, although now it can be found on the menu of every second restaurant. At the same time, for a long time, pumpkin was actively used not only as the basis for a dish. Hundreds of years ago, this vegetable was used as utensils. Today, of course, we do not need this. But in creative terms, this pot-bellied one is invaluable, especially on the eve of Halloween. We offer several options for simple crafts that can be done within an hour.

DIY crafts from decorative pumpkins on the theme of Autumn

You can make various crafts from a decorative pumpkin - for an exhibition, a competition for school or garden, as well as a lantern for Halloween. Decorative pumpkins differ in shape and size. Most often they are small and neat.

You can make a candle stand out of pumpkin. To do this, you need to cut off the top of the head and make a hole to insert a candle. You can decorate the candlestick as desired.

You can make a variety of animals from a decorative pumpkin with your own hands. It is enough just to fit the required shape.

By painting a pumpkin gray or orange, you can make a baby fox and a raccoon.

Felt and glue will help you create such an animal.

Such crafts are easy to make and kids will enjoy working with felt, and space lovers can make a robot.

What beautiful and realistic donuts can be made from small decorative pumpkins of the same size.

Master class on creating a sketch

The next step in the master class is working out the details. We move on to creating a sketch of the future craft only after we have chosen the basis. If done in a different order, it will be very difficult to find a fruit that fits the chosen design.

To get inspired, look at the photos of finished works that we provide below. You can take an already proven idea or create a unique model with your own hands.

To begin with, we draw the contours of your pumpkin, outline the windows and wheels. It is recommended to immediately think through all the decorations. You may need ribbons, scraps of fabric, ribbons, beads, sequins, glitter glue - whatever you like.

At the same stage of the master class we decide how to make the wheels. There are several options:

How to make a turtle from a pumpkin with your own hands

In autumn, pumpkin is considered one of the most popular vegetables. If the autumn exhibition season begins at a school or kindergarten, then it would be a great idea to make a turtle out of a pumpkin with your own hands. parents will have to help the baby, as they need to use a knife.

From half a pumpkin you can make the body of a turtle - a shell. For believability, draw a shell. Potatoes will help make the turtle's head and legs.

The principle of creating a turtle from a pumpkin is the same. There is only a difference in design. You can use cucumbers or carrots to create the legs and head.

Camper

Look at the photo provided. This pumpkin house is made using squash. They should also be prepared and dried. Of course, if the structure is only supposed to last a few weeks, then it doesn't have to be tedious to cook the vegetables.

Windows and doors are cut out with a knife. Before you start working with a sharp object, draw approximate outlines of future windows. A carnation bud is used for the door handle. Every housewife has a bag of these spices in her seasonings. The wheels are attached on both sides; you can use wooden skewers. The most difficult thing is to choose squash of the same size. This is the only way they will look harmonious in the overall composition.

Recommendations from experienced professionals

To make crafts look more original, and the process of making them not to be too painstaking and time-consuming, you need to take the advice of experienced craftsmen.

1. Instead of a kitchen knife, you can use a wood carving knife, because this tool is much sharper and more convenient to use.
2. You should not immediately take on complex elements; it is better to initially practice on simple ones and master the skill.
3. If the pumpkin has dried entirely, then before removing the seeds from it, you need to pour water inside.
4. Before applying the pattern to the peel, you need to make a stencil out of paper, secure it with tape, and only then outline it with a marker.

Important! If a craft made from a fresh pumpkin begins to dry out, then you need to put it in water for a few minutes.

A sweet home for a gnome

This craft can be done by the whole family. Let everyone create their own masterpiece, organize a competition and display your pumpkins on the windowsill.

If you work in a kindergarten, then use this idea to keep the kids busy. For example, create a home from the fairy tale “Cipollino” - Pumpkin’s house. Kindergarten is a great place for creativity, but you must bring the vegetables, already with holes. Give each child an orange blank and begin collective creativity. Of course, in the book, the Pumpkin's house was built from bricks, but you can get creative and create it from such an unusual vegetable material.

Kids will need to be given a variety of decorative items. Bright markers, colored or self-adhesive paper, pieces of fabric and colored beads are perfect for this. With their help, blanks will turn into real masterpieces. Such crafts will decorate any home.

We use cones and moss as decorative elements. These materials must be prepared in advance. Take a walk with your charges in the park area and dry the gifts of nature. If you place a candle in the center of the vegetable, light will be visible in the windows. It’s as if cute gnomes live in the house. By the way, you can use characteristic figures to create a complete composition.