20+ Easy Creative DIY Pumpkin Decorations & Crafts
20+ best DIY pumpkin decorations & crafts for Thanksgiving, Halloween & fall. Make pumpkins from paper, wood, cans, jars, fabric & free household materials!
Pumpkin decorations are such great ways to celebrate fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving. The best part is, you can whip up some wow-worthy pumpkin decorations with common household stuff, and, without buying a single pumpkin!
Start gathering some paper, wood scraps, old fabrics, jars and cans, because all these beautiful, whimsical, elegant, or wicked DIY pumpkins can be made easily for almost free!
Here’s our great pumpkin patch: over 20 creative re-purposed DIY pumpkin decorations to make for this fall season!
How to make toilet paper pumpkins
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How to make free beautiful toilet paper pumpkin decor in 3 different sizes! Such an easy no-storage DIY Thanksgiving & fall decoration idea!
Canning jar lids and mason jars pumpkin decorations
Turn mason jars and canning jar lids into charming farmhouse DIY pumpkin decor! Via Yellow Bliss Road | 36th Avenue
Creative DIY fabric pumpkins
My friend Larissa at Prodigal Pieces made those gorgeous shabby chic pumpkins that I am drooling over! BTW, do you know that you can make beautiful pumpkins from toilet paper? Tutorial here!
DIY book pumpkin & paper pumpkin crafts
Tinted book pages or old books can all be made into paper pumpkins! Via the talented Wendy at H2O Bungalow | Two Paper Divas (site no longer available)
Easy DIY wood pumpkin decor ideas
Don’t you love these rustic wood pumpkin decorations? Tutorial at Infarrantly Creative. Karianne at Thistlewood Farms made this super charming wooden pumpkin stand which can hold pretty fall branches and more!
DIY wooden pumpkins
Who knew blocks of wood can be so lovely? Tutorial here.
Up-cycled Halloween pumpkin ideas
Up-cycle some tin cans and re-purpose thrift store baskets into pumpkin decorations! Tutorials here and here.
Farmhouse pumpkin decor ideas
These DIY pumpkins from burlap or even shower puffs are perfect for farmhouse style fall and Thanksgiving decorations! Tutorial here and here.
How to make a pumpkin from paper
A few paper stripes and a piece of yarn becomes gorgeous pumpkin decor! Source
Make paper pumpkins for Halloween decor
Using a similar technique and different paper, these DIY pumpkin are perfect for Halloween decorating!
Transform Dollar Store pumpkins into creative DIY pumpkins
Decorate Dollar store pumpkins with wood-slices like this , or denim and daisies like this!
Use dryer vent to make pumpkin Halloween decorations
Don’t you think these would make great Halloween pumpkin decorations?
DIY pumpkin paper crafts
Simple and creative ways to make pumpkin decorations from paper. It would be really fun to use different colors and patterns to make paper pumpkin decor for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Source: DIY Inspired | Domestically Blissful .
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Happy creating! 🙂
WOW! I have a book without a book cover that is begging to become a beautiful pumpkin.
Guilt from trashing a still readable book is releaved–A Treasure is born from Trash. Thank YOU!
i can relate to that kind of guilt! happy crafting!! 🙂
Some of these I love, some are just objects painted orange. There is no skill required to paint a jar or a piece/ block of wood. I really like the way you made the different sizes of the toilet roll pumpkins. I have recently seen some that just had a piece of fabric stuffed into the core and a piece of wood added. Those ones are not crafty or cute. I also really like the ones made out of books and lids. I would love to make one using a book, but I get the shivers when I think of cutting a book up. Because in these days more than any other time, books are not the popular choice for reading. I often think that maybe books will become obsolete, like video recorder or cassette tapes.
That’s why I would need to talk myself into using a book.
Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
hi sandra! i don’t think books will disappear at least for another 10 years! for a lot of people it’s nice to hold a book, write in a journal, etc! 🙂
I’m choosing number 18 – the dryer vent pumpkin – because that is one that I have admired for several years and haven’t made yet. I made the book pumpkin last fall (and also an apple book-page pumpkin) and many of the others from fabric and paper. I love fall and PUMPKINS!!!
hi babara! sounds like you have so much creative fun each season! i will need to catch up on pumpkins! 🙂 xx
I would love to make the one that is #5 with it looks like book pages or magazine pages, but there’s no directions. Could you tell me how this one is constructed? Thank you!
hi debbie, the tutorial link is below the photo, where it says by h2obungalow! 🙂
Very nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed surfing around your blog posts.
wow, very creative and unique, thank you for sharing how to do.
What an awesome collection of funky pumpkins! Thank you for including my railroad spike lovelies, Ananada. Happy autumn!
I am so needing to add decorations to our house for fall.
Some incredibly cute ideas here — fall is so amazing!! 🙂 Love it!!
I love pumpkin decorations.. but I am a glitter girl! All my halloween decorations have glitter on it! ha!
These are all SO cute! I have craft night next week and i am SO glad i saw these before next week! Thanks for sharing!
These are so cool! I love the book pumpkin – I’m going to see if I can try and make it!
I am obsessed with those wooden pumpkins! I may have to do a similar project soon!
Thanks so much for the feature, friend! What a great post of pumpkin-spiration!
Have a wonderful day!
karianne