Pumpkin Topiary
Learn how to make a lighted outdoor pumpkin topiary for fall and Halloween decorating! Perfect for your front porch.
Servings 1 topiary
Cost $40
Equipment
- Pencil and eraser
- Dremel tool with a cutting bit and sanding drum
- Drill with drill bits with 1" spade bit
Ingredients
- 5 Faux pumpkins in various colors
- 1 Dowel rod(s) 1" diameter, 60" long
- 1 Brown plastic planter
- 5 strands Christmas lights for outdoor use
- 1 bag Potting soil
- Scrap 2 x 4s
- Hay
- 1 roll Duct tape black
- Acrylic paint for touch up, optional
Instructions
- Draw faces on each one of the pumpkins with a pencil. Cut into your pumpkins and cut out the faces using a Dremel tool.
- Use the sanding drum attachment to sand out the inside of the teeth, nose, and eyes. Erase any remaining pencil lines.
- Place two pieces of scrap 2 x 4s in the bottom of the planter in an "X."
- Use a drill with a 1" spade bit to place two holes - one in each scrap on top of each other - into the wood. Stick the dowel rod through both pieces, down into the planter.
- Pack potting soil into the planter tightly, covering the wood and stabilizing the dowel rod.
- Spread hay into the planter around the base for a fun fall look.
- Use the 1" spade bit to drill three holes in each pumpkin. Tilt them at angles and make a hole at the top and bottom for the dowel, then cut a hole in the back to insert the lights.
- Slide each pumpkin down onto the dowel rod.
- Place one light strand in the back of each pumpkin, leaving both ends hanging out.
- Cut a circular piece of black Duck Tape with a slit in it. Place over the hole with the parts of the light strand hanging out that you want to attach.
- Place the topiary near a light outlet and plug in to light.
