Are you looking to add a charming touch to your Fall or Halloween decor? Look no further! Today we’re crafting the cutest pumpkin basket you’ve ever seen.
If you’ve been around the blog awhile, you might remember how I upcycled packing paper to make a free basket!
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Today I’m using that same technique!
This pumpkin basket is perfect for Halloween, you can use it for trick-or-treat candy, a festive centerpiece, or a cozy accent piece.
When Halloween is over, turn it around so the face doesn’t show and display it for fall.
Crafting With Leather
Today is the monthly meeting of the Handcrafted Society and our challenge for October is to use leather or lace.
If you’re not familiar with The Handcrafted Society it’s a group of talented blogging friends who come together each month to share creations centered around a specific theme or craft medium.
At first, I thought I would use lace until I was browsing Home Goods one day and saw the cutest baskets with leather jack-o-lantern faces.
I pivoted because I knew I could easily recreate it for a couple of dollars using the technique I mentioned earlier!
So are you excited to create a pumpkin basket that’s inexpensive, adorable, functional, and perfect for the entire autumn season?
Let’s get started!
Steps to Make a Pumpkin Basket
Gather Materials
Gather the following materials to complete this project:
- Orange plastic pumpkin- Walmart
- Faux leather- Hobby Lobby
- Packing paper or brown craft paper
- Yard stick or measuring tape
- Rotary cutter and mat or scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Hot glue sticks
- Silicone finger protectors
- Black jute twine- optional
Prepare the paper
I always save the brown packing paper from my Grove shipments to craft with!
If you don’t hoard paper like me, you can purchase brown craft paper in a roll, lol.
Cut 3-inch wide strips out of the paper.
Twist each strip of paper and hot glue three pieces together.
Braid the strips and hot glue the ends together.
Adhere braids to the pumpkin
Start at the bottom and hot glue the braid to the pumpkin.
Be very careful as hot glue can burn your skin. We suggest using silicone finger protectors.
Glue the next braid on top of the last one so they overlap.
Continue gluing the braids until you reach the black handle on the pumpkin.
Cut the braid to the length you need and glue the ends down.
Finish the Top edge
To finish the top edge of the pumpkin, make a smaller braid with 2-inch wide strips.
Adhere it with hot glue.
Dress up the handle
I thought the plastic handle made the pumpkin look cheap so I bulked it up with black jute twine.
Cut six pieces of jute twine and glue the ends together.
Glue that to the outside of the handle,
Then, grab the two middle pieces of twine, and glue them across the top of the handle.
Criss-cross the outside pieces over each other and glue the ends.
Make the pumpkin face
I used a piece of cardstock to make a template of the jack-o-lantern face.
When I got the size and shapes I liked, I used them to trace on the back of the leather.
Cut them out and then hot glue them to the front of the basket!
And here’s the finished product, look how cute he is!
Style your pumpkin basket
I bought the lampshades for spring and summer but they looked so good with my basket I decided to leave them on the lamps a bit longer!
We’ll leave it like this until Halloween and then in November, I’ll do this…
Turn the face to the back and enjoy the basket through Thanksgiving.
Look on the left side of the table to see the original basket I made by upcycling packing paper!
The Handcrafted Society
Now it’s time to see what my amazing friends in The Handcrafted Society have created with leather or lace!
Click on the image or the blog name to hop over to each post!
In Conclusion
Now that you know how to make the cutest pumpkin basket ever, it’s time to get crafting!
Whether you fill it with candy, use it as a centerpiece, or gift it to a loved one, your DIY pumpkin basket is sure to bring smiles and festive charm to any space.
So gather your supplies, embrace your creativity, and enjoy the process of making something truly special this autumn!
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Blessings, Donna and Rich
More Pumpkin DIY Inspiration
Don’t leave yet, if you love pumpkins as much as I do, you’ll want to check out the posts below:
- Super Easy Twine Pumpkins
- Tips to Make a Pumpkin Topiary
- The Most Popular Yarn Pumpkins
- How to Decoupage Elegant Pumpkins
- Create Velvet Pumpkins With Real Stems
Pin It For Later
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