Various Ways of Decorating with Pumpkins
by Lois Breneman, © Revised 2005, Heart to Heart Newsletter
*Glue dried pansies on a pumpkin and coat with mod podge (from a fabric, craft or hobby store) or several coats of white glue slightly thinned with water. It will dry clear and protect the pictures. Use inside the house or on a covered porch.
* Glue color copies of your family on a pumpkin. If you have fall pictures to use, that would be perfect! Cover pictures with mod podge or several coats of white glue slightly thinned with water.
* Of course, pumpkins can be used as decorative touches in planning any outdoor displays for fall. Arrange a display of assorted pumpkins in an old wheelbarrow, basket or wagon.
* Decorate a mantle or table with pumpkins, gourds, colorful leaves and mums, intertwining clear miniature lights in and around the fall harvest.
* Use pumpkins as punch bowls for cider.
* Turn scooped out pumpkins into serving bowls for soups, stews and chili.
* Use smaller pumpkins for individual serving bowls.
* Use the tiniest pumpkins or gourds as place cards for a meal, especially at Thanksgiving.
* Turn small pumpkins or gourds into candle holders by scooping out and inserting votive candles.
*A scooped out pumpkin makes a wonderful vase for colorful fall flowers! Simply insert florist's foam inside the pumpkin for easy arranging.
* Paint flowers and ivy all around the surface of a pumpkin with acrylic paints!
* Sponge paint a pumpkin, using a deeper orange on a sponge, and dabbing all over.
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