10 ideas to make cheap plastic pumpkins look classy and expensive
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It’s that time of year (in the northern hemisphere at least) when thoughts turn to autumn and the pumpkins come out!
Decorating with pumpkins has got increasingly popular over the years and it’s not just about jack-o’-lanterns for halloween now. Decorative pumpkins are no longer all bright orange one with carved faces that appear for a few days each year at the end of October.
You can buy real pumpkins and gourds in all sorts of shapes and colours these days but if you like long lasting decorative items that you can bring out year after year then faux pumpkins can be a good alternative. There are beautiful decorative pumpkins in the shops but they can be very expensive, especially the larger sizes. I saw a lovely, but rather small, verdigris copper effect pumpkin in the local garden centre the other day for nearly £50!
With a few craft materials and a little time it is possible to transform an old cheap plastic or styrofoam (polystyrene) pumpkin from your basement, shed or attic and give it a whole new look.
I’ve scoured the internet and found some creative ideas to transform an old cheap plastic and foam pumpkin into something that looks much more classy and expensive.
10 ways to upcycle a cheap faux pumpkin into something much more expensive looking
WM Design House used paint and flour to give old foam pumpkins this beautiful terracotta look
Home Road used old newsprint and upcycled metal hardware to transform her dollar store pumpkins
Creatively Beth has a super quick transformation, she covered plain foam pumpkins with bandanas for a really fun look
Purple Hues and Me created a lovely glass mosaic look but in a much easier, cheaper and safer way
Sadie Seasongoods transformed her plastic halloween jack-o’-lanterns with rust effect paint
The House on Silverado started by making over faux and real pumpkins with copper spray paint but also experimented with lots of different metallic finishes
Try it, Like it, Create it covered a plain faux pumpkin in a beautiful sunflower paper napkin
Thriving with Less used plaster cloth to dramatically change the look of her garage sale pumpkins
Twelve on Main has 2 ideas to transform dollar store pumpkins, I especially like this idea with fabric strips
Another idea from Purple Hues and Me, this one is done with air dry clay and flower moulds.
Do you have a favourite transformation idea? I think they are all so clever and creative. I’m getting the ladders out to check our attic to see if we have any old plastic pumpkins up there that I can give a whole new classy look to.
Julie
I’ll be sharing this collection of ideas at some of these link ups
