DIY Pumpkin Planter

Fall decor without a pumpkin doesn’t look like fall; Halloween without a pumpkin doesn’t felt like Halloween either, especially a carved pumpkin! No matter how small your home is, you still can squish in a pumpkin. It doesn’t have to be a huge pumpkin, but it can be a small pumpkin decoration that stands out. Like my DIY pumpkin planter I’ve made from an old mug. It’s a cute happy pumpkin for Halloween and fall decor in a form of a succulent planter.

My pumpkin is not spooky but enough to bring in the Halloween vibes. So, if you can bring some joy to your home through that cute smiling pumpkin, why not? Anyway, it’s a frugal upcycling project that is super easy to make. If you have lot of mugs with that shape, then you can do more of my pumpkin planter with different pumpkin expression, that would be super cute! But, before going further, you may want to peek at my steps on making my cute pumpkin planter for succulent.

Things To Prepare

It is quick and easy to make and of course takes only a few simple materials to make this pumpkin planter for the Halloween. I use a vibrant cadmium red to get a very stand out pumpkin So, even though it’s just a small succulent planter, but the pumpkin looks bold and eye catching. Anyway, let’s find out my short list of supplies to make this DIY Pumpkin Planter :

  • An old mug with a pumpkin looking shape.
  • Dark orange acrylic paint or spray paint ( I use cadmium red acrylic paint)
  • White paint
  • Black Marker

How To Make

I love to make a functional decoration, so this cute pumpkin mug, would not just serve as a Halloween decoration, but a planter for my succulent as well. Super easy and quick to make, so you can make many of it. Just make sure your old mugs have a round shape that would look a bit like a pumpkin. I happened to have only one old mug that looks like a pumpkin, so I can only make one. Well, let’s just find out my steps on how to make DIY Pumpkin Planter:

1 . Drill a hole or two on the bottom part of the mug.

2 .Make sure your mug is clean, because the paint would not cover the surface properly on a dirty or grease mug. I painted my mug with white paint first for base and to cover some dark colors on my mug. Let it dry.

3. Paint the mug with dark orange color and wait until it’s dry to proceed with next step.

4. Draw eyes, nose and mouth of a smiling pumpkin on the painted mug planter. You can have any other expression you like for your pumpkin planter, but I like the happy pumpkin.

5. Get a stick shape succulent that would look like a stem and plant it on your pumpkin planter. Don’t forget to add some white little pebbles on top for a better clean look. And your pumpkin planter is done!

Isn’t it cute? Isn’t it frugal? You get a cute pumpkin for Halloween decor, you get a new home for your succulent to grow and you get to upcycling your old mug into something new, pretty and useful. So, what are you waiting for? Try look for your old mugs and find those that you can turn into a pumpkin planter for Halloween. Anyway, check also my Halloween project this year, start with my gothic but sweet DIY Halloween Lacey Pumpkin, edgy but fancy DIY Witch Lacey Hat to an intense but stylish DIY Halloween Mummy With Lace.

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Free Halloween Coloring Printable

Hello everyone, now we are in October 2020! It’s almost Halloween by the end of October. This pandemic situation will surely change this year Halloween. For some of you who are still staying at home celebrating this upcoming Halloween; I have a great activity page for your kids to do. Yes, a Free Halloween Coloring Printable! You can download it for free and have it for your kids to get the Halloween spirit.

I drew a scary pumpkin wearing a witch hat with a witch broom and a cat to color with. And of course a Happy Halloween wording. I’m sure your kids can play with a lot of colors on this Halloween coloring page. Aside from that, your kids can also be creative with different kind of coloring media; they can use colored pencils, crayons, watercolor pencils, brush pens, watercolors and many more. For that, you can print it on different kind of paper media to serve the coloring media that your kid’s is going to use.

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Please download and print my Free Halloween Coloring Printable.  The Halloween printable is in PDF to print and maximum size is A4 paper size. Click the Download button below and enjoy the Free Printable!

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It is a simple Halloween coloring page, but I’m sure your kids would have much fun with the Halloween printable. Have it framed after finished coloring the Halloween printable and hang it on your kid’s bedroom’s door, it will make a nice DIY Halloween decoration too!. Well, have fun and creative time with my scary pumpkin Free Halloween Coloring Printable! Enjoy!

Download also Free Halloween Coloring Printable For Kids , and also other printables. Check out my Halloween ideas DIY Halloween Souvenir Box – Boo, Spook, Eek, DIY Pumpkins Halloween Sign – Trick Or Treat, Easy DIY Halloween Wreath – Trick Or Treat, DIY Halloween Witch Gift Tags, DIY Halloween Trick Or Treat Buckets, Easy DIY Halloween Wreath – Patterned Circles, Halloween DIY Black And White Bats Sign, Halloween Mini Witch Wreath.

For more of my future Fall and Halloween posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

For creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop ! Link your inspiring posts (anything, from recipes, home decor, DIYs, crafts, family, health to gardening) every Monday and get a change to be featured! I’m one of the co-host of the blog hop for Creative Week and will choose the creative posts to be featured on Creative Features week. Please come and join the blog hop and I would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

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Creative Hello!

Mel

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