When Halloween season comes around, we start seeing pumpkins everywhere.
Maybe you want to try making pumpkins, the ever-popular decoration item, but aren’t sure what materials or tools to use.
In this article, we’ll introduce pumpkin craft ideas you can easily enjoy at home.
We explain in detail tips to help first-timers make them successfully, along with key points for creating a three-dimensional look.
With a bit of creativity, you can make wonderful pieces using everyday materials! Because items made by children are treated as works (sakuhin), we use the term “制作” (seisaku) in the text.
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Enjoy a Handmade Halloween! A Collection of Craft Ideas for Childcare (1–10)
Pumpkin box
Some of you probably want to make something practical.
A perfect choice for that is a pumpkin box.
It’s a box inspired by a pumpkin, made with orange origami paper.
It’s easy to fold, yet surprisingly sturdy.
I recommend using it to hold candy or even as a small trash bin.
If you want to take the quality up a notch, you can also make a lid inspired by a hat.
That way, dust won’t get into the box, and it will look even cuter.
Pumpkin and Cat Jack-o’-Lantern
Both jack-o’-lanterns and black cats are essential Halloween motifs, aren’t they? Let’s make an ornament that luxuriously features both! Prepare strips cut from orange construction paper.
Use a clear cup as the base and attach the paper strips around it.
The natural curve will gradually make it look like a pumpkin! Create eyes and a mouth from black origami paper and stick them on to complete the jack-o’-lantern.
You’ll also make the black cat from construction paper, and if you use stickers for the eyes and nose, even kids can do it easily.
Arrange it so the cat looks like it’s peeking out of the pumpkin for a super cute effect! Place an LED light inside and enjoy your Halloween night.
pumpkin hat
A pumpkin hat is the perfect Halloween costume! Place a sheet of construction paper half the size of a quarter sheet sideways, and make curtain-like slits, leaving a 3 cm margin.
Punch a hole in each strip, then thread a string through them in order in the same direction to form a round hat shape.
Thread short pieces of green straw onto the leftover string, tie the string so it won’t move, and your pumpkin hat is complete! Finally, freely stick on decorations like eyes and a mouth made from black construction paper, stickers, and more.
Torn-paper collage
Let’s express unique pumpkins using torn-paper collage! Draw a pumpkin on a backing sheet, spread glue inside the outline, and then stick pieces of origami paper that you’ve torn by hand inside the drawing.
We tend to think pumpkins are orange, but mixing in yellow, green, red, and other colors will make your pumpkin colorful and give it a three-dimensional look.
The size of the torn pieces will also create different expressions and types of pumpkins.
You can try adding eyes and a nose on top, or stick different colored origami papers around the pumpkin as well.
decalcomania
Decalcomania, an age-old artistic technique, is basically about “transferring” an image.
Let’s use this method to make a pumpkin! Cut construction paper into a pumpkin shape and fold it in half.
Paint however you like on just one half.
Before the paint dries, fold the paper along the crease again to transfer the paint to the other half.
This creates a symmetrical design left-right or top-bottom.
Then add the pumpkin’s eyes, nose, and mouth on top.
Even with the same shape, each pumpkin will turn out with its own unique character.
Pumpkin made from a paper core
Making a pumpkin with a toilet paper roll core is super easy.
First, cut a toilet paper roll in half.
Next, fold a sheet of yellow construction paper in half and cut it with scissors.
Apply glue to the back of the cut paper and wrap it around the toilet paper roll.
Fold any excess paper inward.
Then, cut out facial features like triangle eyes separately and stick them on, and attach green construction paper to the top for the stem—that’s it! The paper gives it a warm, cute look, so we recommend pairing it with lights like an LED lamp for an extra charming display.
Art pumpkin made from newspaper
This is an art pumpkin made using newspaper.
Prepare two pieces of newspaper cut in half and folded four times, then cut them into pumpkin shapes.
Fold each pumpkin shape in half, glue them together, and once all 16 pieces are attached and opened, you’ll have a round pumpkin body! Make a stem by tightly rolling a strip of newspaper, wrapping it with brown tape, and inserting it into the center of the pumpkin with adhesive.
Finally, tie on some twine to represent vines, and tape green paper cut into leaf shapes onto the vines to finish it off!