Tonight i went to a craft night hosted by the local church and i thought i would share it with you, i dont have a lot of pictures mid process because i didnt think of it until it was too late (</3) however it is super simple and you should be able to recreate it without too much difficulty!
Supplies
3 Pumpkins (various sizes)
1 Piece of Flower foam (roughly half a brick, depending on the size of your pumpkin)
Flowers
Stick pins
Ribbon
Water
Butter / Sour Cream / Round container (washed please)
---> anything you want to decorate your pumpkins with let your imagination go wild!
* There is an alternative method of doing this which i will explain at the end*
Large Pumpkin Centrepiece
Step 1:
Take the largest pumpkin you are using and cut a wide circle around the top, big enough for the container you are using to sit comfortably in the pumpkin. Take out all the seeds and inside goodness and toss it along with the top.
Step 2:
Put the container into the pumpkin and push it down about halfway, depending on the size, if you are using a deeper container push it too the bottom, then take your flower foam (soaked with water) and put it in the container in the pumpkin (should be about flush with the top of the pumpkin, if you have small stemmed flowers then have it sticking out about 1 - 1.5 Inches.
Step 3:
Remove leaves from the flowers and start cutting them to fit, ideally cut small ones for around the edges and gradually get longer as you get to the centre, you want to have some volume up there to make it stand out,
Step 4:
Once you have filled in the flower foam and it is nice and full you can add your own design to it, i just made a simple bow out of ribbon and used a zip tie to keep in in place, if you dont cut the tail of the zip tie you can easily stick it in the pumpkin (cut a little slit to make it easier on yourself) and then you dont have to mess around with glue :)
Other Pumpkins
--> for the smaller / medium size pumpkin the flowers (red and white) were not stuck into foam, i used stick pins and took the flower off its stem and put the pin through it and stuck them inside, if you want your flowers to last longer and have some foam left over you can definitely use the same method as the larger one
--> for the baby pumpkin i just put ribbon around it and secured it again with stick pins and then place two flowers at the top
--> Alternative method: buy a large pumpkin, cut it and take everything out like you are going to carve it into a jack-o-lantern, buy a large pot of flowers, and pop it inside, no muss no fuss! (super ultra duper simple)
Present them any way you want! if you have tiered candle holders they are really nice and gives the pumpkins some height at your table
or set them out on a charger or like i did in the top picture just arrange them on your table!
they should last you almost a week (the large pumpkin) and you can keep putting a little water in them to soak in that foam!
Good Luck, let me know if you try it out yourselves!
