Rustic Wooden Pumpkins

This project is part of a new blogger challenge/blog hop called #MakeIt. A group of fabulous bloggers and I have teamed up to work on monthly seasonal projects. This month is all about PUMPKINS! Take a look at all of the pumpkin projects below and visit some of the other blogs to see how they were created.

1. Rustic Book Page Pumpkins 2. Pumpkin Table Centerpiece 3. The Giving Pumpkin 4. Painted Pumpkin Plates 5. Rustic Wooden Pumpkins 6. Wood Slice Pumpkins 7. 3 Ingredient Pumpkin Spice Cake 8. Ikat Pumpkin Artwork  9. Peanut Butter Pumpkin Cookies 10. Pumpkin Coin Purse 11. Pumpkin Project

I'm really happy to be teaming up with such talented bloggers for this monthly challenge!  For this month's pumpkin theme, I used some left over pieces of wood from previous projects and I made them into these rustic wooden pumpkins.  Used 2x4 pieces that were six inches long, but it doesn't really matter what size the wood is since pumpkins come in many different sizes.  Just make sure you have a straight cut at the bottom so the pumpkins stand up straight.

Materials for making rustic wooden pumpkins:

scrap wood

primer

orange paint

paintbrush

drill

twigs

leaves

raffia

glue gun

First, give the wood a coat of primer.
After the primer dries, paint the wood pieces a pretty orange pumpkin color.
(I used two coats.)

Drill a hole in the top of each piece of wood. 

Put the twigs in the holes for the pumpkin stems.  I found twigs that fit snugly in the holes, but if your twigs are loose, just use a little bit of glue to hold them in place.

Glue some leaves to the top and tie on a few pieces of raffia.

It's easy to make a whole set of these wooden pumpkins 

and have your very own mini pumpkin patch perfect for fall decorating!

More fun Halloween projects to make with scrap wood!

Inspired by this pin for wooden pumpkins.