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pumpkin made of book pages
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Book Page Pumpkin

Learn how to make a pumpkin using a book, the easy way! This craft project will look perfect with your home decor.
Course Fall Crafts
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings 1 pumpkin
Cost $2

Equipment

Ingredients

  • Book one per pumpkin
  • 1 sheet paper for a template
  • Felt sheet(s) a few fall colors
  • Twigs
  • Twine

Instructions

  • You'll need a book with strong binding for this project. It should be easy to bend around a twig (which will act as a stem).
    Book, felt, twine, hot glue gun, scissors, ruler, twig
  • Remove the book cover from the book by holding all the pages together and ripping the cover off. You can use scissors or a craft knife to help you on the edges.
    Separating the book cover from the rest of the book
  • If there are any thicker liner pages in your book, remove those.
    Removing exterior pages
  • Fold the piece of paper in half. Draw a half pumpkin shape to the best of your ability, using the fold as the center. Cut out with scissors. Unfold and make sure it looks somewhat like a pumpkin, and then fold back in half.
    Pumpkin template folded in half
  • Place the book pages down on your work surface, and put the template down with the fold on the binding. Trace with the pen.
    Tracing the template with a pen onto the book pages
  • Remove the template and grab 5 - 10 pages at a time. Cut around them with the scissors and remove the scraps.
    Cutting around the pages with the scissors on the line
  • Using the pages you just cut as a template, draw another line on the page below. Grab 5 - 10 more pages and cut again. Repeat this step until all pages are cut (this is the most time consuming part).
    Continuing to trace the pages and cut more pages with scissors
  • Use a ruler to measure a twig that is about 4 to 5 inches taller than your pumpkin. Place the cut book open with the binding facing you on the work surface. Add a line of hot glue and place the twig down, flush to the bottom.
    Adding glue to the book binding and placing the twig
  • Add hot glue to the binding and the twig, and bring the book pages forward, wrapping the binding around the twig to secure.
    Gluing the book page pumpkin around the twig
  • Bring the end pages around and hot glue them together.
    Gluing the end pages together with hot glue
  • Stand your pumpkin up and start fluffing. Hot glue any additional pages together depending on how they naturally separate. You might not need to do any gluing.
    Completed book page pumpkin
  • Make a template with your scrap paper. Use it to cut out a few stem or leaf pieces from the felt. I did two, one slightly larger than the other.
    Using a template to cut stem pieces from felt
  • Make a slit in the middle of the felt pieces with scissors.
    Cutting a slit in the middle of the felt with scissors
  • Slide the felt pieces down onto the stem to secure.
    Placing the felt down onto the twig stem
  • Tie the twine around the pumpkin stem to finish. Trim with scissors.
    Tying twine around the twig pumpkin stem

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