How to Make a Thanksgiving Potpourri Pumpkin

This pumpkin potpourri craft idea makes a great looking (and smelling) Thanksgiving craft idea. You can set these adorable paper pumpkins on tables and use some string to hang them all around. With some orange paper, potpourri and fall leaves to decorate these up, you can make several of these in no time at all.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Orange Paper
• Potpourri Mix
• Netting
• Fall Leaves (real or plastic)
• Brown Ribbon
• Craft Scissors
• Glue or Tape
• String (optional)

1. Cut 4 to 6 strips of orange paper about ½ inch wide. Use craft scissors that have a fancy edging to add a little flare to your pumpkin. The fewer strips the more open space for the aroma of the potpourri to get through.

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   Arrange the strips in an asterisk shape. Glue each strip in place one at a time.

3. Take your potpourri and arrange in a round shape on top of the netting making it a small enough bunch to fit inside the pumpkin.

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   Gather the potpourri up the potpourri in the netting and tie it off at the end using string or ribbon. Place the bundle in the center of your strips.

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   Now take both ends of one strip (they should be opposite of each other) and tape or glue the two ends together above the potpourri.
   
   Repeat gluing the strips together until you have sealed in the netting and have formed a pumpkin.

6. Take a length of brown ribbon and fold over creating a loop.

7. Finish off your pumpkin by gluing on some fall colored leaves. As an option, you can put some string in the pumpkin stem (the loop of ribbon) and tie off the ends. Then just hang this fancy smelling Thanksgiving pumpkin up in favorite room.

Tips & Warnings

• You can make just the paper pumpkin without the potpourri. Turn it into a place card holder by inserting a piece of paper with the person's name on it.

Resources

• Here are more Thanksgiving craft ideas.