This is a great craft for anyone and is super fun for kids of all ages to make. It is a pretty fail proof project and only takes minutes to complete. I have made this several times with children as young as two all the way up to adults. They always turn out absolutely adorable and look quite smashing when grouped in bunches! Unfortunately, I can’t take all of the credit for this idea because it’s been around for years.
Ingredients:
1 full roll of toilet paper – any brand!
1 fat quarter of orange solid or patterned fabric or enough tissue paper, crepe paper, plastic tablecloth, towel, shirt, etc., to wrap around the roll of toilet paper
scraps of green solid or patterned fabric for leaves OR floral silk leaves, paper leaves cut with your Cricut or real pressed and preserved leaves
1 stick OR an empty toilet paper tube, a brown paper bag OR whatever else you’d like to use for a stem
2 green coated floral stems OR chenille stems in green or brown
Directions:
1. Grab your supplies and a clean surface to spread out the fabric.
2. Lay the fabric out face down on a flat surface and place the roll of toilet paper on top in the center of the fabric.
3. Begin pulling up the sides.
3. Tuck the extra fabric into center of the roll of toilet paper pressing into the tube opening with your fingers.
4. As your pulling up the fabric and wrapping the toilet paper, try to fold and tuck in the puckers (where the fabric seems to loose). Continue tucking the fabric in the toilet paper tube until you achieve desired results.
5. Now it’s time for the stem, if you’re using an empty paper towel or toilet paper tube first cut the whole tube open and curl it up so that it fits inside of the toilet paper pumpkin. If you’re using a stick just push it in. If using a paper bag, wrapping paper or cardstock crinkle and fold it up to give it some character and then insert it into the pumpkin top.
6. Cut out two leaves free handed or use your Cricut. I cut these out by hand.
7. I forgot to take a picture of this step but all you need to do is take two green coated floral stems (that’s what I used) or two chenille (pipe cleaners) stems and wrap each one around a pen to form a coil. Stretch each out a bit and either wrap around the pumpkin stem. Stretch the stems out a bit. Ta-Da! You just made yourself a purdy lil’ toilet paper pumpkin!
WARNING: These pumpkins are addicting and before you know it you will have every roll of toilet paper wrapped in your house. Please remember to leave one roll of toilet paper “un-pumpkined” for those needing to do paperwork! *wink*
Olive funky fun crafts for all ages, don’t you?
xKim
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If it were my child I’d be thrilled knowing I had an extra roll of toilet paper if there was ever a shortage! ROFL!!
Very clever! I wonder what the parents woul say if I sent the kiddos home with decorated tp?
My son’s class did this at school last year. For the stems, they just used a scrap piece of green fabric and rolled it into the tube, then added some green pipe cleaner curlycues for the leaves…super easy and cute…and great for those that are weird like my family and don’t celebrate Halloween
this is a great! so easy. i never saw it before. tfs!