Past Halloween, past the pumpkin . It's not true!
Poor, essential, warm and welcoming art, for every point of your home : from the kitchen to the living room, passing through the children's room; small, medium, large, monochrome or lumpy, the pumpkins just wait for your hands to be decorated.
Here are 3 tips on how to decorate winter pumpkins with a pinch of imagination and dexterity, good to eat and beautiful to see.
The pumpkin-lamp
A chore suitable for the largest and most impressive.
What you need : get yourself a nice big pumpkin, a medium-sized drill with tips of various sizes, a sharp knife, a spoon and some paper tape.
How to do it : start by making a round photo at the base of the pumpkin, then empty it well with the knife and spoon of its contents, seeds and pulp both to be used in the kitchen.
Continue around the circumference of the pumpkin with two strips of adhesive tape, one below and one above.
The central band that remains is the one you are going to decorate, making a lot of small holes with the drill in the places you want (for safety, first make marks with a pencil!) To get the desired effect.
Then remove the scotch, take the pumpkin and put a candle inside to get a magical play of lights.
Creative recycling with decoupage
You will need a few things to start your pumpkin recycling lab .
What you need : pumpkins of various sizes, old nature magazines, travels, animals, flowers and plants, funny images for children, Vinavil type glue, a plastic jar and a brush to spread it; acrylic white and a brush to spread it; a pair of scissors.
How to do it : paint the pumpkin with acrylic white, then let it dry well. In the meantime, with the help of your children, cut out the images that you like most from the selected magazines.
Glue them on the pumpkin (or pumpkins) using the Vinavil type glue slightly diluted in a little water. Let it dry well and place as a decorative ornament wherever you like!
To give an extra touch of originality you can make a pumpkin entirely written with the pages of a newspaper!
Decorations and phrases of effect on the pumpkin
A message of love? A Christmas present? A little thought for a really special friend or friend? Say it or do it with the pumpkin!
How to do it : start by painting with acrylic colors that you like the base of the pumpkin; then, with stencil letters or using your beautiful and original calligraphy, write the effect phrase you thought, an aphorism or a sweet message .
A totally original and ecological gift!