How to Make a Pumpkin Tree Craft

Create a Halloween pumpkin tree--similar to a small Christmas tree--in just a few minutes from basic materials. Gather your kids to help you make an impressive decoration for your home.

Things You'll Need

• Small planter about 6 to 8 inches wide
• Block of Styrofoam or craft clay
• Stick with many small branches
• Glitter
• Glow-in-the-dark paint
• Paintbrush
• Black yarn
• Black and orange craft paint
• Black marker
• Orange construction paper
• Scissors
• Dirt

Instructions

1. Paint the 6-to-8-inch-wide planter pot completely in black and orange for Halloween. Use any design you like. Add some glow-in-the-dark paint to make your decoration shine at night.

2. Place a small block of Styrofoam or craft clay used for holding flowers in place into the painted planter.

3. Press a stick with many branches firmly in the enter of the Styrofoam or clay.

4. Pour dirt into the planter, covering the Styrofoam or clay and filling the pot.

5. Draw several small pumpkin shapes onto orange construction paper. These will be the decorations for your Halloween tree.

6. Cut out each of the pumpkin-shape decorations out of the orange construction paper.

7. Decorate the pumpkin decorations with silly, scary, or happy jack-o-lantern faces. Create some glitter to each of the pumpkins to make them stand out.

8. Use scissors to cut one piece of 4-inch string for each of your pumpkin decorations.

9. Make a loop with each of the pieces of yarn and glue both loose ends onto the back of each pumpkin decoration. Let the glue dry--and you'll have loops sturdy enough to hang the decoration.

10. Hang each of the pumpkin shaped-decorations onto the branches of your stick. Spread the decorations out over the entire stick to give your Halloween tree a more balanced look.

11. Display your Halloween tree as a centerpiece on a table, or as a spooky decoration on your shelf. You can even put your tree outside for everyone to enjoy. Visit the resource below for other spooky Halloween crafts.

Tips & Warnings

• Decorate your planter with scary Halloween images or glow-in-the-dark paint to make it shine at night.

• Add fake insects to the dirt in your planter to make it more interesting.

• Be careful when using scissors to cut out the pumpkin decorations.

Resources

• Halloween Crafts