How to Decorate a Pumpkin With Flowers

Take a pumpkin and add a saucy chapeau made from a large leaf or bright lips made from rose petals. It will create just as much of a sensation as if you'd spent an hour or more carving and cleaning up.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Raffia
• Glue Guns
• Peanut Butter
• Pumpkins
• Cocktail Toothpicks
• Pumpkins

1. Select a fresh pumpkin of any size or shape.

2. Gather interesting flowers, leaves, berries, pods, petals, cones and vines from around your garden. Some flowers that work well are blue lobelia, roses, cosmos, marigolds and late-season cannas.

3. Use peanut butter to "glue" the features to your pumpkin.

4. Paste white rose petals directly to the pumpkin skin for the eyes. Use red berries dipped in peanut butter for the eyeballs.

5. Dip the tip end of marigold petals into the peanut butter glue. These will be the teeth.

6. Spread peanut butter on the back of red rose or pink cosmos petals for the lips.

7. Dip a seedpod into the peanut butter glue, and attach in the proper place for the nose.

8. Tie sections of vines to the stem end of the pumpkin with raffia to represent hair.

9. Fold a large leaf in half to make a silly cap, and attach with toothpicks.

Tips & Warnings

• This technique works well for miniature pumpkins, too.
• Heavier objects can be attached to the pumpkin using toothpicks or a hot glue gun.

[marypugh]

on 10/30/2009 drill holes in pumpkin...stick the stem through the hole