Hi Everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your Holiday this week! We have been so busy celebrating Thanksgiving, my birthday, and my father-in-laws birthday that I haven’t had time to breathe…LOL

I want to share with you one of the projects I did with my kids on Thanksgiving Day. While we were waiting for Tom Turkey to finish cooking, the girls made pumpkin centerpieces for the dinner table. With adult help and some pre-cutting and setting up, this project can be done with children ages 5+. This project can also be adapted for other Holidays by using different designer paper or adding ribbon to make it a hanging ornament.

For the pumpkins, I pre-cut 11- 1″x 8.5″ strips of Pumpkin Pie Card Stock. The kids used the acorns wheel (retired) and VersaMark Ink to add designs to the Card Stock strips. I punched holes on both ends of the card stock strips. The kids added one brad through the entire stack of strips on both ends. Now the pumpkin can be created by fanning out the strips one at a time.

The leaves are fun to make. fold a piece of scrap old olive card stock and cut out half of a leaf shape on the folded edge (when you open it up, it will look like a leaf). Keeping the leaf folded, run it through the paper crimper.

The vines were also made with a scrap piece of card stock wheeled with VersaMark on both sides and coiled around a pencil.

The “Happy Thanksgiving” banner was stamped with Chocolate Chip Ink on a scrap piece of Confetti White Card stock.

The leaves, vines, and banner were layered on top of one another with dimensionals and mini-glue dots. The trick to being able to fold it back up and store it year after year is attaching them to the top paper strip on the pumpkin, right next to the brad. If you attach them to any of the other paper strips, you won’t be able to fold it up again.

That covers it! I hope you try it, my kids loved it and everyone was very impressed that they looked so great. This is a fun and easy project for adults too. Christmas is coming and these would make great Christmas ornaments if you added ribbon and cut the paper strips a little smaller.

I will work on a tutorial for that! My birthday present this year was a new Kodak Digital camera. I am trying to figure out how to make video tutorials!

STAMPS: Acorn Wheel (retired)
INK: VersaMark
PAPER: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, and Confetti White Card Stock
ACCESSORIES: Paper Crimper, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Brads, 1/16″ circle punch, scissors, pencil