Nothing brings life to a home's interior likedecorative ornaments and cute trinkets. It is thanks to them that any cold interior acquires individuality, becomes warm and cozy. By making these ornaments with your own hands, you will bring a piece of your soul into the interior of your own home. And this will make it not just individual. It will become unique.
Pumpkin in the interior
Lots of options to decorate yourat home will give you a pumpkin. It is best to make crafts from a decorative pumpkin. Its shape will give you a greater choice of options for those ideas that even a novice hand maker can implement. But an ordinary pumpkin can also be used. Decorative crafts from dried pumpkin turn out to be very interior, bringing warmth and comfort to the house. Its coloring - juicy yellow or orange of all shades - will successfully fit into almost any interior, enlivening it and bringing joy to the house. Bright color spots of pumpkin crafts immediately attract attention to themselves, and if it is also a decorative candlestick with a burning candle inside, then the room will become especially cozy and cheerful. Everyone knows about the effect of different colors on a person. People associate orange with the soft glow of the setting sun, warmth and bliss. This color is always pleasing to the eye and improves mood, having a beneficial effect on a person. It keeps any person in good shape. Therefore, pumpkin crafts can bring inexhaustible energy and strength to the interior of the house. Crafts can be made both from a regular pumpkin, which you can then use for its intended purpose, and from a dried one. If you are an avid summer resident and brought a pumpkin harvest home in the fall, then it, I mean the pumpkin, can be “revived” - make charming faces out of it using a mask, a headdress and a marker. Or you can decorate the pumpkin with twigs, ears of corn, decorative leaves and rowan branches, creating a decorative composition in the autumn spirit. Involve children in the creative process. They will really like this activity. They, for their part, will help you come up with something like this, because the irrepressible children's imagination has no limits. If you are ready to sacrifice a couple of pumpkins from your harvest, you can make excellent decorative crafts from them that will perfectly fit into the interior of your home. You can make a variety of decorative crafts from dried pumpkin. Pumpkin is dried in the open air or in the oven. In no case should you dry it on a radiator - it will wrinkle and become unsuitable for crafts.
Pumpkin Candlestick and Vase
Pumpkin candlesticks and vases look great.You can make a real decorative composition. After all, a candlelit dinner is so romantic! And if there is an orange pumpkin vase with autumn flowers given to you by your loved one on the table, then the mood will simply fly away! To make a candlestick, you will need a small pumpkin, and for a vase you can take a larger one. In addition, for decoration you will need beads of different sizes, beads, braid, various ribbons and other decorative elements of your choice. You also need to prepare decorative pumpkins, dried flowers, a knife, pins with multi-colored heads and wax in advance. To make crafts, cut off the tops of the pumpkins, clean out the core and leave them to dry for a while. Then decorate the large half of the pumpkin as your imagination tells you. Use prepared decorative elements for this - beads, beads, dried flowers, tinsel and other miniature decorations. In a pumpkin prepared for a vase, fix a container for water inside. Decorate the hat for the candlestick too. For these purposes, you can take bright ribbon, beads and silk or metallic threads. To fix the candle in a pumpkin candlestick, use wax or paraffin. It is very good to use flat candles in a foil stand for such candlesticks.
Other ideas
You can make a fun pumpkin out of different sizesan orange family - mom, dad and little kids. Kids will be absolutely delighted! For this you will need dried flowers and herbs, colored paper, felt-tip pens, pins, multi-colored ribbons and braid, beads and seed beads, wire. First, you need to select pumpkins of different shapes and sizes and dry them in the oven. And then get to work. Here, as much as you can! Eyes can be made from buttons, pins with black heads or beads. Dad's mustache can be made from blades of grass or jute fiber. A bunch of grass will do for the hair. Eyebrows and eyelashes can be drawn with a felt-tip pen, or you can glue on false eyelashes. The mouth can also be drawn or laid out from beads. Mom can be "dressed" in an apron, cut out of colored paper, and dad can be decorated with a bow tie. Pumpkin kids can also get funny clothes with your help. You can make great crafts from pumpkin seeds. These can be beautiful themed panels for the kitchen or funny pictures for the children's room, which can also be made with the participation of children. There are also a lot of ideas here. Go for it! And do not deny yourself anything. We recommend reading: