🌼 How to Make: Floral Pumpkins 🌼
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This was the best cozy fall party activity! A perfect girl’s night 💖 It’s super easy to execute and the results are always so pretty! Here’s how to do it!
Step 1: Secure the Ideal Pumpkin
Personally I enjoy the everlasting kind of decorations— so I got my pumpkin from Micheal’s. It’s ceramic! They even have the kind that are blank, all white and primed for painting. Or natural colors (orange) to unnatural neutrals (black)!
One of their newer versions is hollow, so you can carve them as well with a hot knife.
Doing this on fresh pumpkins from your local grocery store can work too!
Step 2: Gather All the Decorating Materials
List of Supplies:
Dried Flowers (here’s the pack I got on Amazon)
Paintbrush (can use foam brush, but the flowers can be delicate)
Watercup to wash the brush ( red solo cup vibe)
Paper plate or something to pour the Mod Podge on
Step 3: Prep the Surface of the Pumpkin
It can be fun to paint the pumpkin another color or something completely unique first! I love acrylics for this option. Make sure it’s completely dry before adding on the flowers.
Or! Make sure the surface of the pumpkin is clear of dirt or dust by wiping it with a damp rag.
Step 4: Use Mod Podge to glue on the Flowers
Now the fun part! Proceed to pick up a flower (maybe using tweezers), hold it on the pumpkin, and brush the mod podge lightly over the flowers until it is completely covered and can stay on the pumpkin by itself.
This works best with thin and flexible flowers. Using larger or bulkier/more 3D flowers or leaves can be hard to stick on. I came across a couple leaves from that pack I recommended that start to lift off the pumpkin due to the inflexible form.
I say just go for any design that feels right to you! I picked out the flowers in the colors I liked most and went from there. This is meant to be a low stress and relaxing moment 😊
It can help to stick on the biggest flowers first, and fit in the smaller ones around it.
+Rinse your paintbrush as you go to make sure the glue doesn’t dry the bristles together. Please use brushes you don’t care about. You can totally wash them well after, but I prefer to use potentially disposable ones.
Step 5: Let Dry & Enjoy!
You’ll know the mod podge is dry when it looks completely clear. If you still see a milky white, it’s not dry.
The thicker you add on the mod podge, the longer it takes to dry.
So the dry time can be anywhere from 5 minutes ( thin application), to a hour (globs of mod podge added).