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Tutorial: Make a Cloth Pumpkin
Here’s an easy Cloth Pumpkin you can make in less than an hour.
Choose your fabric. Find a round object to trace. A dinner plate makes a small pumpkin.
Obviously the larger the object the larger the pumpkin. Cut out your circle.
Sew a running stitch all away the way around the edge of the circle. Use something strong, like three of four strands of embroidery floss.
After you’ve stitched completely around the circle place some stuffing in the center of it.
Pull on both ends of the thread to gather the fabric together around the stuffing. Tie the thread to hold the gather together. You can add more stuffing through the hole in the top to fill out the shape.
One you have the shape you want, get some twine. Wrap the twine around the ball four times, criss-crossing like tying a ribbon around a gift. Tie ends to secure. Trim off extra twine.
To make a stem break a small piece off a stick. Insert in the center of the pumpkin. Hot glue to secure.
On a piece of green felt draw a leaf “collar” that you will insert over the stem to cover the hole on the top.
Cut the leaves out. Cut a slit in the center so that it will slip over the stem.
Place the leaves over the stem. To make vines wrap some floral wire around a pencil.
Pull the wire off the pencil. It will be shaped like a spring.
Make two vines. Wrap them around the stem.
And there’s your pumpkin!
Paper Grocery Sack Monster Craft for Kids
We hardly ever get paper grocery sacks these days. In fact the store where we do our shopping most of the time doesn’t even offer them. But one day I went into a small local supermarket to pick up a few things, and was happy to get a couple brown bags to bring my things home in. As soon as my son saw them, he wanted to play with them. He kept putting them on his head (something you can of course never do with those plastic shopping bags) and wearing them around. So I asked him if wanted me to cut holes in one so he could see. Well, it evolved from there. We decorated the sack and created this Brown Bag Monster.
