Thanksgiving Pumpkin Seed Picture Craft

Here's a great DIY decoration for fall and could easily be adapted s a kids craft. Use pumpkin seeds to create a pumpkin shaped collage craft. You could even outline it with string to help kids stay inside the lines. Visit the site below for the full tutorial and even more great ideas.

Tattered and Inked

Easy Halloween Yarn Pumpkin Craft

Here's an easy yarn pumpkin craft idea for Halloween. Simple and cute, this craft is great for preschoolers. Visit the great site below for the tutorial on this and loads of other great craft ideas.

The Magic Onions

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Turkey Centerpiece Craft

This Thanksgiving pumpkin turkey craft is a fabulous idea. Use a "sugar pie" pumpkin and some construction paper to create this unique Thanksgiving centerpiece craft. Follow the link below for the full tutorial including a downloadable turkey template. Gobble gobble.

Marin Mommies

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Centerpiece Craft

This Thanksgiving pumpkin centerpiece idea is so beautifully simple. Fill a glass bowl with real and/or faux miniature pumpkins and squashes to create this decorative, season setting table centerpiece. It will really set the mood and impress guests at your Thanksgiving Day party. Follow the link for this and other great Thanksgiving craft ideas.

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Thanksgiviving Paper Plate Math Craft

Here's another great idea from one of the best blogs on the web, Almost Unschoolers. This Thanksgiving pumpkin pie paper plate craft is also a great math lesson. After decorating your paper plate to look like a pumpkin pie, cut it into pieces to teach the concept of fractions. Follow the link for the full tutorial and explanation on this great idea.

Almost Unschoolers

Thanksgiving Glitter Pumpkins Craft

Here's a variation on the glitter pumpkin idea for Thanksgiving. Draw beautiful designs with a pencil first and then with glue and cover with glitter. If you want, you could even write  short message on your pumpkins. Set them outside to greet visitors or place them on the Thanksgiving table for a centerpiece. The same idea is great for Halloween or anytime. Follow the link for a complete step by step tutorial.

Kevin & Amanda

Halloween Glitter Pumpkin Craft

How can you make pumpkins look even better, why by covering it with glitter of course! This Halloween glitter pumpkins craft idea is so simple and beautiful. Ijust love glitter crafts. Cover all or part of your pumpkin with glue and then pour on the glitter. Real pumpkins are temporary, or decorate plastic craft pumpkins and save them for next year. Place them in or out of the house to really set the mood for Halloween.

Inspirtion for Home

Fall Glitter Paper Pumpkin Craft

This is a great fall glitter paper pumpkin craft in 3D. Use it as a centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table. Great for Halloween, too.You need lots of glitter, but the results are worth it. Follow the link for a complete tutorial on this beautifully patterned craft idea.

Think Crafts

Halloween Paper Strip Pumpkin Craft

Here's a super easy and cute Halloween paper strip pumpkin craft from Linda at Little Family Fun. It's pretty self-explanatory. Staple or glue paper strips into rolls and glue on a sheet of card stock to make a pumpkin. Visit this site for this and lots of other great craft ideas.

Little Family Fun

Halloween Paper Strip Pumpkin Craft

This s a really cute Halloween paper strip pumpkin craft. You can use zigzag craft scissors or regular scissors. Follow the link for a complete tutorial with step by step instructions, along with dozens of other great craft ideas.
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Halloween Yarn Pumpkin Craft

This Halloween yarn pumpkin craft idea is a classic. Simple and fun to make. Just yarn, a ballooon and glue. I've seen the same idea used to make a spider's web craft, too. Follow the link for a full tutorial with pictures.

Naturally Educational

Pipe Cleaner Halloween Pumpkins

Here are some cute Halloween pip cleaner pumpkins from a Japanese site. Make a loop at the end of an orange pipe cleaner to make the base. Wrap the free end over the top to make the first loop in your pumpkin. Add 2 more short pipe cleaners for the other loops. Add a short green pipe cleaner at the top for the stem.



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Paper Apple Craft

This paper apple craft is another variation of the recycled book pumpkin craft from Craftberry Bush. This one you don't need a book, but several sheets of white paper.

Materials:

• cardboard
• white paper
• scissors
• short stick
• strong stapler
• glue or glue gun
• red food coloring
• water
• shallow bowl
• ribbon
• apple seeds

Directions:

1. Trace a simple half apple shape with one straight edge on cardboard and cut out. This will be your template.
2. Put several sheets of  white paper together. Fold in half and staple the fold to make a book.
3. Place the template on your little book with the straight edge along the spine and trace with a pencil.
4. Cut out with scissors.
5. Mix red food coloring with water in a shallow bowl.
6. Close your book and tip the edges in the red water to dy them. Allow to dry.
7. Glue a short stick to the spine of your book, sticking up a little from the top. Prefereably one with a little gren leaf.
8. Fold some pges arount the stick and glue in place. Hold with a clothespin until dry.
9. Tie a little ribbon around the stem.
10. Glue or draw a couple of apple seeds on the inside of your book.
11. Display your paper apple.

Source: Craftberry Bush

Recycled Book Pumpkin Craft

This recycled book pumpkin craft has a really cool, vintage look. A very unique decorative craft for Earth Day, fall, Halloween, or anytime.

Materials:

• old paperback book
• cardboard
• scissors
• ribbon
• stick
• exacto knife
• glue gun
• tea bag
• clothespin

Directions:

1. Cut a simple half pumpkin/apple shape with one straight side from cardboard for your template.
2. Remove the cover from the book.
3. Close the book and place your template on the book with the flat side even with the book's spine. Trace or simply hold in place and cut allong the lines with an exacto knife. You have to keep cutting through again and again until you reach the end of the book.
4. Trim the edges with scissors.
5. Brew some tea. Use the wet tea bag to stain the edges of the book pages.
6. Place a short stick along the spine of the book sticking up a little from the top. Hot glue in place.
7. Fold some pages around the stick and glue in place. Use a closepin to close and keep in place until dry.
8. Tie a ribbon atound the stem. Display your recycled book pumpkin.

Source: Craftberry Bush

Halloween Curled Paper Pumpkin Fall Craft

This Halloween curled paper pumpkin is a really cute idea for fall. Simple and fun to make for the kids.

Materials:

• orange, green, and brown construction paper
• scissors
• glue
• pencil

Directions:

1. Cut the orange paper into long, 1/2 inch wide strips.
2. Roll the strips onto a pencil and remove. Then glue the end to make a little curled circle. Repeat as many times as you like to make your pumpkin.
3. Arrange all your orange circles on a work surface and glue together.
4. Cut 2 or 3 strips from green paper. Curl the ends and glue the straight ends into the top of your pumpkin.
5. Cut a strip about 2 inches long from brown paper. Fold in half and glue to the top of your pumpkin for a stem. Allow everything to dry.
6. Tie a string and hang up your pumpkin.

Source: A Mom's Passion

Fall Pumpkin Sun Catcher Craft

This Halloween Pumpkin Sun Catcher Craft will look great hanging in the window during Halloween or anytime.

Materials:

• pumpkin template from site below
• yellow and orange tissue paper
• black construction paper
• scissors
• contact paper
• pencil
• yarn
• glue

Directions:

1. Cut the tissue paper into 1 inch squares.
2. Fold back the backing of the contact paper. Put on the tissue paper squares in a 8 inch circle. Leave no gaps.
3. Fold over the backing and smooth out any bubbles.
4. Print and cut out the pumpkin template. Trace and cut out 2 pumpkins from black paper.
5. Lay the template over the contact paper you decorated and trace the pumpkin shape. Cut out the shape slightly smaller than the line.
6. Glue the contact on top of one pumpkin.
7. Loop the yarn and glue to the top of the contact paper sticking out the top.
8. Glue and sandwich the other pumpkin on top.
9. Hang up your pumpkin in a window.

Source: The Crafty Hostess

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Craft

Here's a very easy craft to do for the nursery rhyme Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater. The website as a template you can print out.

Materials:

• template from website
• crayons
• scissors
• box cutter(used by an adult only)
• glue or tape

Directions:

1. Color and cut out the pumpkin and Peter's wife.
2. The teacher cuts a slit in the pumpkin with a sharp knife.
3. Glue or tape Peter's wife into the pumpkin.

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