Autumn pore has its own charm: cool sunrises and evenings, cunning fogs, the riot of languid and deep paints. During this period, a harvest was celebrated in ancient times, the belongings were counted before long winter. One of the main heroes of autumn (traditionally October) is the pumpkin. It is incredibly tasty and useful and with her help in your home will be warm and cozy: you can make crafts from pumpkins yourself, with children or the whole family.
Most of the pumpkin is associated with the Halloween holiday or the day of all saints. According to the current tradition, pumpkin symbolizes protection against evil spirits. But not just a pumpkin, but the lantern of Jack (the hero who was able to deceive death). Such a lantern is easily done and put up at the house as the protection of evil forces.
You can diversify the interior of your home not only for the holiday, but also for the entire autumn or even winter (it all depends on the strength of the pumpkin). Due to the variety of shapes and color of the pumpkin, it can be used for the manufacture of various crafts, ranging from the candlestick and ending with the cable. White color, all shades of orange, with green splashes and stripes; A round, oval, elongated form is a pumpkin, from which you will have many unique fakes.
The most popular handicraft - lantern on Halloween video:
Cooking pumpkin
To decorate from pumpkin as long as possible retained their original appearance, you need to prepare fruit. Decorative pumpkins usually choose as the basis, but you can choose the fruit of any size and form at your discretion. To begin with, it is important to properly prepare a pumpkin, since without prior processing, your "beauty" simply will start. So, we prepare pumpkin for processing:
- The selected fruit thoroughly wash under running water and wipe well until complete drying.
- Cut the "Hat" with a fruit (but do not cut off the fruit itself). Try to cut off the upper part so that you can comfortably get the flesh.
- With a conventional spoon or construction scraper, remove seeds and flesh.
- With the help of large-grayscale sandpaper, you need to clean the inner walls. Treat them very carefully, as a few remaining pulp can lead to the rotting of the fetus.
- After that, place the usual paper inside the pumpkins and leave on the windowsill, but avoid direct sunlight and heat sources. Otherwise, the pumpkin will become fragile and when processing can crack. Change paper as it dry until it stops until it stops to absorb fetus moisture.
Usually, this preparation can leave a few days before the week. But if you want to decorate your kitchen with real pumpkin plates, you will have to sweat and engage in special pumpkin processing, which lasts at least six months. So, your pumpkin is ready - go to the next stage.
Preparing tool
In order for your crafts to have a neat look, you must prepare the toolkit for the decorative pumpkin processing. Its not so much:
- Long knife for cutting large holes;
- Drill or seer for holes in the peel;
- Copier, felt-tip or carting for drawing circuit pattern or pattern;
- The device for burning the pattern on the peel, acrylic paints for drawing and cutter (can be used by vegetable cutter);
- Glue (better for decoupage), a convenient tool will be a gun for glue.
That is the entire main toolkit. Depending on your idea, you will need additional items. It can be a fabric, beads, paint with sequins, colored paper, etc. You are absolutely not limited in your fantasy. Important: If you work with the children, watch them not hurt. Give them the safest and easy part of the work on the cradle.
Cooking crafts
The simplest handicraft is a muzzle that scares evil spirits. In the peel prepared pumpkins make holes for eyes, nose and mouth. What kind of mood will be your keeper, depends on you. By tradition, such crafts must inspire fear, so they used to be rather terrible in appearance. Today it all depends on your preferences. Do not forget to install a candle. If the bottom of the fetus is slightly tilted, set the stand (you can cardboard or wooden). Jack lamp is manufactured by the same principle. It only does not have a mouth, and a carrot or a parsnik root is installed in the nose hole. For light fruits, use the root.
Making a candlestick. To do this, you can use any form of fetus, but it is preferable to correct oval or round. There are two varieties of the candlestick from the pumpkin. Let's start with a slight option. In the fruit, take off the "hat" - you will not need it. Inside put the usual candle "Tablet" (if the fruit is small), or a large candle on the stand. You can give the originality of the candlestick using a sparkler. Apply glue to the surface of the pumpkin and sprinkle with sparkles, you can also use a special paint. Chief Choose at your discretion: Millions of highlights of different colors will dilute a monophonic color.
Making a candle. The technology of preparing the fetus is identical to the manufacture of a candlestick. You can also decorate the peel with paints or carvings. Install the wick and fill with hot waxing inside the dried fetus. As a supplement can use aromatic wax.
Carving or engraving. This method will allow you from the simplest pumpkin-lantern to make a masterpiece. To do this, you need a jigsaw or vegetable cutter (for cutting up the top layer of the peel). Prepare a picture on a copy or paper - it may be branches of trees, spiders or beetles, witch on brooms, etc. Secure the finished pattern on the pumpkin with the help of the tape and along the contour, start punching the hole with a sequel. After applying the circuit on the peel, you can start cutting out. With the help of engraving you will get an unusual lantern with a scattered candle light.
Use paints. Application of color pattern occurs as follows. Also, the tank is transferred to the surface of the pumpkin, on the peel to accurate the contour, it is working as a coal. Next you can start to create: use colored paints.
Crafts "Caret from Pumpkin" Video:
Application is a great idea for decorating the fetus. Here you can apply absolutely different materials. The main thing is organic and beauty. As an autumn motive, you can use the leaves of trees: cover the conventional leaves on the peel, suitable for the color to the pumpkin - your decor is ready.
A more complex applique using flower buds. It is better to use autumn flowers as a material: dahriths, chrysanthemums, asters, dahlias. Gently cut down the buds and get them on the pumpkin as thick as possible. As a result, you will get an incredibly beautiful floral ball.
For lovers of experiments, the idea in the style of Vintage is suitable. You will need a medium-sized pumpkin. Stick on the peel black and white newspaper clippings (better without a photo). For a more accurate look, it is better to stick stripes to avoid folds. From the paper of a contrasting color, you can black with a pattern (striped, polka dot, etc.) Cut letters for the inscription. It can be anything, but if you are preparing to Halloween, it is better to prepare in the spirit of the holiday. From the thick cardboard, cut the "cute" spider, secure it with the help of two-way tape. Fruit decorate ribbons from auura, velvet or silk of different textures and colors. The original pumpkin decor is ready to decorate and protect your home.
Vases from pumpkins, clock on the "hat" or inside the fetus, boxes, sills, carriages for children, houses and faces - such a variety can be achieved thanks to the pumpkin. Still the Internet, implement ideas, and your home will be filled with bright colors of the autumn mood.
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