Wondering what to do with all those spare corks you have hanging around? Why not make a pumpkin to celebrate fall? You only need about 30 minutes and a few supplies and the result is an adorable table decoration you can enjoy year after year.
Make A Wine Cork Pumpkin
Materials:
- 25 recycled wine corks
- Orange acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Hot glue gun
- Craft knife
- Green felt
- Scissors
- Jute twine
Instructions:
- Dilute the paint with a bit of water and paint both ends of all but one cork. Allow to dry.
- Arrange the corks in rows (4 on the bottom, then 5, then 6, then 5 and 4 on the top row) and hot glue them together. For best results, try to match up the corks so they're the same length in each row.
- Take the one remaining cork and cut off part of it with the craft knife. Hot glue it on top as the stem.
- Cut leaf shapes from the green felt and hot glue them on around the “stem.”
- Tie a short length of twine around the stem to resemble the vine.
Finished project measures approximately 5″H x 5″W x 1-3/4″D
Marissa says
This works better with white wine corks, if not the real red wine corks and the synthetic red wine corks last.
Rania says
I love this idea! It’s great anywhere in the house. I am posting it in my DIY Thanksgiving ideas roundup post. http://wp.me/p3ioVX-1N9