Homemade Pumpkins — Made Just For U

Popular this year, pumpkins made out of wood. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Homemade Pumpkins

Maybe we have the pandemic to thank for this trend but I’ve seen a lot more homemade pumpkins as home decor. Yes, I mean homemade pumpkins although there has also been an increase in homegrown ones. These handmade pumpkin options can be reused from year to year and you save calories by not eating them. Ironically enough, real pumpkins are a favorite Halloween decorating item where I live and almost impossible to find around Thanksgiving, when they can be made into pies.

Regardless of being homemade or real, pumpkins work well for fall decor in the US because they span two holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving.

The simplest homemade pumpkins I’ve seen so far was this idea at Pine Street Vintage Goods, 711 Pine Street, in Rolla. With canning jars in short supply, there are currently extra lids available at most hobby, home and garden centers and even thrift stores. This idea makes good use of the lid rings.

Extra canning lids painted orange and tied with a bow. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Another cute pumpkin idea at Pine Street Vintage Goods was this pumpkin made out of fabric remnants.

You can repurpose left over quilt batting for the filing and dust off that hot glue gun to add, and secure, the string.

Fabric remnants stuffed with extra quilt batting make for cute pumpkins. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

I have several large fabric pumpkins somewhere I have deployed this time of year. With home reconstruction ongoing it’s hard to access some storage areas so I will settle for my tried and true small chenille pumpkin.

This homemade pumpkin out of chenille fabric with a small twig top was easy to make. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

This cute small pumpkin was made out of repurposed chenille fabric and left over quilt batting and has been a fall decor item for many years.

Again these small items are easy to store and to quickly deploy to add a seasonal vibe to a space.

Pumpkins are in; found this fuzzy pumpkin throw pillow at a big box store. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

For those of you who like practical decor. this fuzzy brown pumpkin was on sale this fall at a local big box store as a throw pillow. I didn’t personally test it but it did appear to be a good head pillow size.

And then there was this outdoor pillow I found on sale at the end of the summer season last year.