Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

October 2, 2015 8 By EngineerMommy

This easy Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft is a fabulous way to take those plastick-y orange foam pumpkins from the dollar store and transform them into something fun and festive for the Halloween season! This is a really simple & straightforward craft project and costs next to nothing to put together! For this project today, I actually started with the pumpkins that were the result of this project! Here is what my final pumpkin topiary looks like!

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Craft: Pumpkin Topiary

Dollar Store Craft: Pumpkin Topiary

Pretty good for dollar store pumpkins, right? Wanna know how I made that using (mainly) dollar store materials? Here’s the easy tutorial!

Supplies:
3 dollar store craft pumpkins
matte black spray paint
alphabet stamp set
white & orange stamp pad
google eyes
hot glue

Directions:
1. Using hot glue, attach your pumpkins one on top of the other to form a topiary.

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


2. Spray paint the pumpkins with matte black paint.
Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


3. Using the stamp pads, stamp on the word “BOO” in multiple places all over the pumpkins!
Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


4. Using the hot glue, adhere the googly eyes to various spots on the pumpkin topiary!
Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


Done!
Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary

Dollar Store Pumpkin Craft: Spooky Topiary


How easy was this craft?! Sophia actually had a blast helping me stamp the words onto the pumpkins! You may be able to spot the ones that she stamped on!! 😉

Looking for more Halloween ideas? Check these out!

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DIY Haunted House BOO Kit

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Dollar store pumpkin with gold spiderweb


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