Pumpkins are not just for making Jack-o-Lanterns! They are a quintessential piece of fall decorating, and for the Thanksgiving table, why not add some colorful pumpkins?
There are many beautiful things you can make out of a pumpkin! A spectacular centerpiece can be made by coring, seeding and painting a pumpkin white. Then, a paper doily is laid over the pumpkin, and, using a small drill bit, holes are drilled into the pumpkin through the holes that are in the paper lace doily. When a lovely lacy pattern appears on the pumpkin, polish it with a little melted candle wax, or even furniture wax, put a votive candle inside, and light it during your dinner. Put the top back on the pumpkin and decorate the top with small pinecones, or acorns, or fall leaves.
Another fun thing to do with kids to your centerpiece pumpkin is to decoupage some beautiful fall leaves onto it. This is done very simply. Core, seed and thoroughly dry your pumpkin. Lay your leaf collection out on the work surface in the order you wish to use them, and, one by one, coat each leaf on both sides with a decoupage product (like ModPodge). Press them onto the pumpkin and hold them in place until they stick there for good. Continue pressing the leaves onto the pumpkin until you are pleased with its appearance, then coat the entire pumpkin, leaves and all, with one or two more coats of decoupage. Let dry, then display.
A quick pumpkin decorating project that is fun for the smaller children, are hand paint pumpkins. Core, seed and dry the pumpkin. Pour some child-safe paint into small paper plates and make sure your child is wearing protective clothing like an old t-shirt or a smock. Help your child place their flat hands into the paint and then stamp their little hand print right onto the pumpkin. Depending on the size of the pumpkin, several colors can be done, and when they are dry, special things can be added like glue and glitter, special stickers, or little drawings made with markers.
Are you having your holiday dinner at someone else’s house? How about a pumpkin hostess gift? Core, seed and dry your pumpkin. Decide whether you want to paint it or decoupage some leaves onto it, or perhaps some other fall related thing. Pictures from magazines of acorns or fallscapes can be decoupaged onto the pumpkin too. Collect some wildcrafting materials such as berry bush branches and leaves, decorative kale leaves, little cabbages, tree branches with red berries on them, beautiful leafy sticks, and fall flowers like mums. Place a florists’ frog (a piece of dense foam that holds flowers in place) into the bottom of the pumpkin, and thoroughly soak (to keep the vegetation fresh). Arrange your wildcrafted materials into a pleasing display, anchoring everything into the foam, and viola!
Strew the table with preserved fall leaves and perhaps some other interesting looking gourds or squash. Ripe apples or crab apples are another way to bring some of the beauties of the outdoors indoors, and these can be randomly placed down the middle of the table too, or used for place names. Intersperse some tea lights, and add some cinnamon sticks that have been dipped in cinnamon or clove bud essential oil, and what a lovely table you will have made, appealing to all the senses.
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