How to Make a Boo Pumpkin Planter from a Foam Pumpkin

I love pumpkins, planters, mums, and Halloween so why not make a “Boo Pumpkin Planter” to hold one of my beautiful fall mums?

Every fall I decorate my porch a little different but two things I always incorporate are:  1) colorful mums and 2) pumpkins so this year I decided to put them together…in an urn.

This Boo pumpkin planter is super easy and a great project for the kids to help with.

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Pumpkin Planter Supplies:

• Large hollow foam pumpkin
• Assorted buttons (I chose to use all black to stay with the Halloween theme)
• E6000
• Versa-tool (This is not an absolute necessity but…it makes the project ALOT easier) –
• Aging Glaze (see recipe below)

Pumpkin Planter Instructions:

1)  Decide the word you want to spell and, using buttons, glue it on to the front of the foam pumpkin with E6000 or hot glue gun.  Let dry.

2)  Plug in Versa-tool and let it get hot (be careful).  The hot knife has a slight odor when you first turn it on. I have 3 teenage boys and I promise it’s nothing compared to that. LOL

3)  Using the hot knife, cut the top off the pumpkin.  Make sure you make the hole large enough to fit a mum inside.  You will also want to cut a couple of small holes in the bottom of the pumpkin for water drainage.

Here is the pumpkin with the mum sitting in it. This is really cute right? Well…In the life of a faux painter, it needed more so…I removed the mum and moved on to step 4.

4)  Using the aging glaze recipe below, glaze the foam pumpkin.  You can go right over the buttons…no worries.  To see a step by step tutorial on glazing a foam pumpkin to make it look more realistic, click here.

Pumpkin Planter Aging Glaze Recipe:

1. 1 part Burnt Umber Acrylic Paint* 
2. 2 parts water
3. Mix well

*You can also mix brown and black acrylic paint together if you don’t have Burnt Umber

 

Now that my friends is an adorable “Boo Pumpkin Planter”!  Now that you have the idea, personalize it how ever you want.  Make an initial pumpkin or spell out other short words like the word “Hello”…you can make anything you can dream up.

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