Little stuffed pumpkins – Target Dollar Spot
Found these cute little stuffed fabric pumpkins at Target Dollar Spot.
They are fairly small; fit in the palm of your hand. I’m not sure how many different colors they were originally available in. By the time I found them, these two colors and black velvet were all that was left in stock. The stems are plastic. The turquoise and black pumpkins are velvet fabric; the green one a faux suede.
They really were just fine to use ‘as is’, but you KNOW that is never good enough for me! I had some black fabric leaves in my Halloween supply stash; attached the leaves with some fine black craft wire, strung through the leaf and twisted around the stem. Then the extra length of wire was wrapped around a pencil to create a curly vine.
Since I didn’t have any brown leaves to add to the pale green pumpkin, I had to come up with something else to embellish it. I’m really trying to NOT buy a bunch more craft supplies, and use only what I have on hand. But of course, you can buy fake leaves in just about ANY color at any craft store if you wanted some.
I had some ‘grapevine’ wire; which is wire covered with brown paper that looks like grapevine. I twisted on a small piece of the grapevine wire and curled the loose ends, as I had done on the others. It still needed a ‘little something’, so I added a pretty golden brown sheer bow.
The turquoise bottle came from Target’s Dollar Spot too. I embellished it with some stick on crystals that I had on hand. The glitter pumpkin is one from Dollar Tree. I replaced the fake plastic stem with a real wood one (piece of a tree branch) and painted it aqua and glittered it. To prevent excess glitter ‘shed’, I spray on a coat of clear varnish as the finishing touch.
These small pumpkins would be perfect to use at individual place settings on your Thanksgiving table.
