How to Make Toilet Paper Pumpkins

Doesn't look like a pumpkin... yet!

Autumn means changing leaves, scarecrows, trick or treaters and pumpkins. You can create this fall craft project using items you most certainly have around the house. While you might be familiar with another Halloween use for toilet paper, this way is more of a treat than a trick. Plus, the toilet paper is still usable for its original purpose when the season is over.

Things You'll Need

• Full roll of toilet paper
• Pumpkin colored fabric or paper
• Paper lunch bag
• White glue or glue gun with glue sticks
• Green pipe cleaners
• Green fabric
• Scissors
• Poly-fil or cotton balls

Instructions

1. Lay the pumpkin-colored fabric or paper on a clean, dry, flat surface. Place the roll of toilet paper in the middle of it.

2. Start at one corner of the fabric or paper and tuck it into the center of the roll of toilet paper. Continue until all of the material is tucked inside of the toilet paper roll. For a puffier, rounder pumpkin, you can stuff the pumpkin-colored material with Poly-fil or cotton balls as you tuck the fabric or paper into the center of the toilet paper roll.

3. Cut the paper lunch bag open so that it lies flat. Roll it up into a cylinder and use the glue to adhere it. Tuck it inside of the toilet paper tube.

4. Curl the pipe cleaner into a wavy, curly vine and wrap it around the brown paper bag stem.

5. Cut one or two large leaves out of the green fabric and glue them to the stem.

Tips & Warnings

• Make jack-o-lanterns by cutting eyes, nose and mouth shapes out of black fabric or construction paper and gluing them to the front of the orange fabric.

Resources

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