By Noreen Doll.
Craft a creepy crawly pumpkin topiary to decorate your Halloween table.
I try not to use expensive items for crafting because I know lots of people couldn’t afford to make crafts if it required purchasing expensive supplies. And I like to recycle as much as possible.
So head to your recycle bin for most of your supplies and finish up at the Dollar Store to make this fun creepy crawly pumpkin topiary.
What You Need
Tin Can
Newspaper
Wood Dowel – 1/4 inch diameter, 10 to 12 inches long
Plaster of Paris or cement, if you have it
Orange Spray Paint or Acrylic Paint
Styrofoam Ball
Tacky Glue
Package of Spiders or Spider Rings from Dollar Store
Ribbon for Bow
What You Do
1. Push the styrofoam ball firmly down onto one end of the dowel to make a hole in the ball so it can sit on the dowel.
2. Add water and Plaster or Paris (following box directions) to the can to make a depth of 2 or 3 inches.
Warning! Always use Plaster of Paris outdoors to prevent it getting in your drains and clogging them. Use a garden hose to clean items.
3. Mix quickly and put the dowel in the center of the mix. Hold it for a couple of minutes to be sure it will stand straight. Let Harden.
4. Cut 2 or 2 1/2 inch squares from the newspaper.
5. Spread glue on a small area of the styrofoam ball.
6.Scrunch the squares around your finger and stick them in the glue, keeping them fairly close together.
7. Add more glue as needed and cover the ball completely, except for a small area around the hole you made. Let dry.
8. Spray the ball with orange paint. Let dry. Ignore that little spider that crept up on the ball.
Because I didn’t have any orange spray paint, i mixed red and yellow tempera paint with a little water, in a small spray bottle.
Shake it well and do a test spray before spraying your newspaper covered ball.
9. With black spray paint, paint the dowel and can – inside and out. Use a second coat to get good coverage. Let dry.
10. Put a bit of glue in the dowel hole and press the orange ball on top.
11. Use hot glue to attach spiders all over the ball.
12. Tie a Halloween colored bow around the can and glue a spider in the center of the bow.
Your creepy crawly pumpkin topiary is complete!
Tips
Use flies or ants instead of spiders to cover your pumpkin.
If you don’t want to paint the topiary ball, cut the squares from orange fabric, orange crepe paper, or orange tissue paper and glue them on.
© Noreen Doll
Jill says
Brilliant – you’re coming up with some fabulous halloween decorations!! Thanks for sharing them!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a fabulous week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/
Melody says
How easy and frightfully cute for Halloween
Kathy Moody says
What a cute, creative idea! I love it. Visiting from the Mad Skills Party. 🙂
Candace says
How fun!
Dropping in from Inspire Me Monday
Nancy @ Kibbles 'N Knits says
I love this idea! Looks great!
Dottie says
Very creative! Thanks so much for linking up with our Countdown to Fall link party! Have a great week! 🙂
http://dixie-n-dottie.blogspot.com/
The Style Sisters says
So creative!! I love you green idea! Come link up to centerpiece Wed tomorrow (it will be u early) on my blog and share this idea with us.
Karin
Crystelle says
It’s so cute! This would be a great idea for a craft afternoon with friends….
Kelly at Smart! School {House} says
This is so awesome!
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Tracey says
WOW, you can’t even tell it is news paper when done! I also try and use a lot of recycled items when I craft and I just love how this came out! Thanks so much for sharing on the We Made That Linky
The Style Sisters says
Thanks again for linking up all your ideas on centerpiece Wednesday! Karin
Sylvia says
This is SO cool! Going to pin this, so I can come back and try it myself! Thanks so much for sharing! Sylvia
Capri + 3--Theresa says
That is so creative and turned out great. I love that most of the items used to make it can be found at home.
Michelle says
Love this! Can’t wait to make one. I am on my way to Michaels now to get the plaster and paint! Thanks so much for sharing on Creative Thursday this week. Can’t wait to see what you link up next week.
Michelle
Lindy@Itsy Bitsy Paper says
So fun and festive for Halloween! I hope you’ll link up to my Wickedly Creative Halloween Ideas Party (fall ideas too).
http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/2012/09/2012-wickedly-creative-halloween-ideas.html
Donna says
Love this! We love easy DIY and are looking forward to trying this. Thanks for sharing.
Kimberly @ A Night Owl says
This is so cute! Stopping by from Crafty Vanessa!
Elena says
Love this! Of course, it gives me the chills just looking at it (I feel like something is crawling on me) :o)
Diann @ The Thrifty Groove says
This is a great creative way to make a topiary! Love it!
Julie says
Oh I love this! Thank you so much for sharing on Marvelous Mondays! I will be featuring this on my blog this weekend so be sure to stop by and check out the feature post!
Julie
Charlene@APinchofJoy says
So cute and I love that it repurposes the can and the newspaper! Plus you mixed the paint from what you had on hand – my kind of doings! Thanks for linking on Busy Monday – hope to see you again next week!
Karri Reiser says
I love this. Thank you for sharing at my Our Favorite Things Link Party
Alisha says
This came out great!! Stopping by from delicateConstruction’s linky party. Here is what I shared this week: http://craftybrooklynarmywife.blogspot.ca/2012/09/another-fur-baby-coat.html
BeColorful says
Easy, affordable and timely the perfect post to feature this week on Motivated Monday at BeColorful. It should be up later tonight.
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Athena at Minerva's Garden says
Hi Noreen: This is such a cute pumpkin-spider idea–I love that the project uses so many recycled items–very clever!
Steph @ Crafting in the Rain says
Looks great–even the spiders aren’t too bad 😉
Cathy@My1929Charmer says
Loving this, how cute. I also favor projects that are easy to do! You always do a great job showing us how to make one for our self. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with Sunday’s Best – you helped make the party a success!
Natural-nesters says
I love topiaries!! So much, and this is so cute and fun!! What a great idea!!
We featured you today at the naturally-nifty party!!
http://natural-nester.blogspot.com/2012/09/naturally-nifty-party-32.html
Lauren says
Love it! We just bought a bunch of spiders too! Thank you for sharing at our Pinteresting Party!
Rose :: Fine Craft Guild says
Super duper cute. Do come link it up with our party at http://www.finecraftguild.com/party/ We’d love to see it there!
Britni says
Love the spiders! Such a great idea I might need to borrow 🙂
Tracy says
Thanks for sharing over at Craft Junkie Too last week. This project is part of my Featured Favorites — so I hope you can stop by again real soon.
http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/2012/09/tgif-link-party-67.html
xo,
Tracy
Maria Matter says
too fun, love this idea!
I’ll be featuring you this week @ Inspire Me Fridays, thanks so much for linking up!
Nicky @ Pink Recipe Box says
Love this idea! Pinning to try out for Hallowen 🙂
Jill @ Create.Craft.Love. says
That is super creepy and looks super easy to make! Love that you used newspaper!
Angie says
What a great idea! I would love it if you would consider sharing at my first ever Halloween linky party!
http://happytreelife.com/2012/09/21/spooky-tree-life-halloween-extravaganza-linky-party/
Alexis AKA MOM says
What a GREAT idea. I love it and I could pull this off 🙂
Cindy @ Upcycled Design Lab says
I love your idea. Thanks for sharing.
Amanda says
This project is awesome and very creative. Great job!!
bj says
Just as cute as can be. thanks for showing us how….
AmieJo says
This is really cute. I love it.
ileana-carmen says
The project it is so cute! Thank you for sharing with us.
Michelle @TheGraciousWife.com says
Cute, simple, and cheap to make! I love it! Thanks for sharing! Pinning!
-Michelle
Kayla says
This is just awesome! It’s a wonderful decoration 🙂
Michelle @ The Painted Hinge says
Wow! I love this- very creative! This would be super as table centerpieces for a Halloween party! Great job!
Felecia says
Hi Noreen! What a creative way to use what you have! I love it! It is versatile enough to use for different occasions! Thanks for sharing! Blessings from Bama!
Mila says
Thank you so much for linking up with Big Autumn Bash ! 🙂
xx
Mila