How to make a pumpkin house with your own hands?

Pumpkin is a versatile natural material from which many unusual crafts can be made. Pumpkin houses look especially impressive. There are several ways to create them, and in any case, they will attract the attention of others.

Using leaves and flowers, you can prepare flower houses. It is best to take gerberas or dried flowers for this. Flower houses will become a real interior decoration.

To begin with, let's briefly dwell on the reasons for such a popularity of pumpkin when creating autumn crafts. The advantages of this material are obvious.

Pumpkin is presented in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and shades, so you can make crafts of various types from it.

The pumpkin is stored for a long time. This means that the craft will look decent until the end of the exhibition.

Thanks to the hardness of the walls, the vegetable can be applied to drawings, glue decorative ornaments and cut stylish patterns.

A particularly spectacular pumpkin craft makes a mobile home or carriage. It is not difficult to do such a thing, you just need to pick up a vegetable of suitable size and shape, clean out all the pulp and dry it with paper. After that, you can proceed directly to creating a toy.

Wheels are made of wire. To do this, you need to twist the round workpiece and fix the knitting needles with plasticine.

Wrap all four wheels with duct tape, then paint it in any color you want. Alternatively, you can take electrical tape, then further staining is not needed. Electrical tape is sold in stores in different shades - black, blue and red. Therefore, everyone can choose the one that best matches the theme of the craft.

Next, you will need wooden sticks. They also need to be wrapped with electrical tape or tape.

Preparation of the carriage itself. As already mentioned, the inside of the fruit is thoroughly cleaned out. Windows and doors are formed on the sides.

It remains only to pierce the pumpkin from below with a stick, insert the wheels.

You can also make wheels for a house from natural materials, for example, from squash. The main thing is to choose a squash of a suitable size so that they are organically combined with the overall composition. If you want your crafts to last for a long time, they will also need to be dried. If you need it for a few days, it is not necessary to prepare future wheels. These wheels are attached on both sides using wooden sticks or toothpicks.

You can make a very beautiful house for birds from a pumpkin. It looks especially beautiful in winter, when everything around is covered with white snow. The hole, which is formed on top to remove the pulp, needs to be covered with a “roof” - it can be made using planks and secured with superglue.

A hole is cut out from the side through which feathered friends can get inside. For greater beauty, an unusual birdhouse can be painted. It is advisable to hang a hook from above, it will allow you to hook the feeder to a tree branch.

Orange vegetable crafts are invariably associated with Halloween. Most often, they make the head of a monster, cut out a toothy mouth and eyes. To enhance the effect, a candle is placed inside - such a pumpkin looks very ominous in the dark.

However, Halloween isn't just a creepy pumpkin. To create an entourage in a house, you can cut out Gothic castles with intricate patterns from it.

With small children, you can build a house for gnomes from a pumpkin for Halloween. This pliable material will make a spectacular hut and a mystical dwelling for a sorceress. Self-adhesive paper, beads, bright markers and pieces of fabric are used for decoration - they will turn vegetable blanks into real masterpieces.

Decorate the "clearing" near the house with moss and cones. It is best to prepare these materials in advance. Take a walk with your children in the park area, and prepare the gifts of nature for future use. To complete the composition, you can put figures of small fairy-tale creatures.

A decorative pumpkin will make beautiful scarecrows. Usually they are given the appearance of spiders and other scary insects. They are used to decorate a room on Halloween or as a funny present for a friend for All Saints Day.

Using branches and leaves, you can create a house for mice out of pumpkin - it will be a good decoration for a table or windowsill. To make this craft, the pumpkin should be peeled from the pulp, dried and holes made for windows and doors. As the door itself, a gate is used, made of thin twigs interconnected. The same material can be used to build window frames and improvised grilles. The roof is covered with leaves, it is advisable to iron them first so that they keep their shape.

There are many ideas on how to make do-it-yourself pumpkin houses in stages for a kindergarten or school. Let's get acquainted with the description of the most interesting crafts on the theme of autumn.

The option of making houses from pumpkin and cones is quite complicated to perform. However, the result is very stylish and effective. To create such a house, you will need:

• a pair of dried pumpkins - round and long lagenaria;
• polymer clay or plasticine;
• cones;
• nippers or sharp scissors;
• glue "Moment";
• water-based sealant varnish.

You can make a spectacular pumpkin house with your own hands. But at the same time, you need to be patient, scrupulous and attentive. The master class includes several stages of work.

• First you need to prune both pumpkins. At the same time, the top is left at the lagenaria - it will act as a roof. A base is formed from a round vegetable.
• With the help of nippers or scissors, particles are separated from the cones to create shingles.
• The bottom pumpkin is filled with sand to ensure maximum stability.
• Both parts of the house are connected with glue. The elements of the cones are attached on top.
• Doors, windows and decor are molded from polymer clay and baked in the oven. The finished blanks are glued to the pumpkin with glue.
• To make the fairy house more beautiful, its individual elements are painted over with acrylic paint.
• The finished craft is coated with water-based varnish. This will allow her to maintain her appearance for a long time.

You can make a pumpkin house using felt. It is a comfortable fabric material that is easy to use. It is easy to cut, does not crumble and easily adheres to the surface of the pumpkin. To do this, you need to perform several steps step by step.

• First you need to clean the pulp from the fruit, dry it and cut out the doors.
• After that, any decorative elements are formed from the fabric.
• Fixing them is a snap - just cut out all the necessary parts and fix them on the peel with glue. After that, all that remains is to make holes that simulate windows.
• If possible, plant a fairy-tale character near each window. This will make the craft more lively.
• To make the house look bright and juicy, use multi-colored felt.

You can create crafts from pumpkin and plasticine without any difficulties, which is why young children like them so much. All you need is to stock up on brightly colored plasticine. Moreover, the more colored circles there are, the better. The main secret of the craft's success is neatness and thoughtful decoration.

The easiest and easiest way to create a pumpkin house is to use acrylic paints. Just draw your house on the pumpkin, it can look anything you like. Don't be afraid to use dark colors. Even if you use the black color scheme, the castle will look very atmospheric and stylish. Experiment - this is the only way you can get unusual orange crafts from a simple vegetable.

If you don't have polymer clay or plasticine on hand, try replacing them with salt dough. This material is often used for crafts with children. The recipe for its preparation is simple - you need flour, salt and water. The consistency should allow it to hold its shape and mold well.

Decor elements are formed from the dough, and after they have hardened, they are fixed on the pumpkin using superglue. After that, it remains only to paint the house with acrylic paint and decorate it with grass, dried flowers and pebbles. Pumpkin houses made of salted dough, decorated with dry twigs, look very good.

If you are planning on making a pumpkin house, it is important to choose the right vegetable.

For work, you need to take a pumpkin healthy. There should be no rotten areas, obvious irregularities, dark spots and mold on its surface.

It is advisable to take a plant, the size of the stalk of which is 8-10 cm. This will significantly increase the storage time.

It is better to use a knife or scissors to cut the pumpkin. You cannot twist the fruit.

Before work, you should properly process the pumpkin. If this is not done, after a few days the vegetable will lose its aesthetic appearance and begin to rot.

The fruit is thoroughly washed and dried, then the top is cut off with a sharp knife for unhindered scraping.

The pulp must be removed completely; for this, use an ordinary tablespoon. All leftovers are removed with large emery, otherwise the pumpkin will soon begin to rot and become covered with mold.

The peeled pumpkin is stuffed with old newspapers and placed in a ventilated place. Change the paper filling until it stops absorbing moisture. Drying pumpkin near radiators, fireplaces and other heating appliances is not worth it.

If you want your craft to stand for a long time, it can take several weeks to get ready, so you need to start it well in advance. If you need a house for a short exhibition in kindergarten, minimal preparation within 3-5 days will be enough.

To make curly patterns on the walls of the pumpkin, you can use the recommendations of specialists.

• Instead of a kitchen knife, it is better to take a special knife for wood carving or clerical. These tools are easier to use and much sharper.
• Without work experience, you should not tackle complex elements right away. First, you should practice on the lightest, fill your hand, master the skill, and only then move on to intricate figures.
• Before applying a pattern to the peel, make a stencil out of paper, secure it with tape and circle with a marker.

And in conclusion, we offer you some original ideas for creating pumpkin houses.

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