How To Make A Pumpkin From An Old Book: Fall Décor

Today, we’ll talk about how to make a Pumpkin
from an Old Book for some fun fall décor.
Because you can never have too many pumpkins, right?

 

It’s time for two things:

Another Fall Pumpkin DIY and an old book project.

And the caveat: a project that doesn’t cost a thing – the very best kind.

 

 

Old Book Pumpkin DIY

What you need:

• old book.
• tacky glue and/or hot glue.
• scissors, pencil, plate a little smaller than the width of the book when opened.
• foraged twig, about 3/4″ diameter and 4″ long. We used a cinnamon stick.
• fall silk leaves from your stash, or DIY paper leaves.
• twine or raffia, whatever you have on hand.

 

 

Directions:

1. Remove the covers from an old book. Paperbacks are not a good choice, as the pages tend to pop out when you turn it backwards cover to cover. Ask how we know. So find an old book that has thread holding it together, not just glue.
2. Lay the plate up along the page bottom and open edge on the book’s current top page. Draw a pumpkin shape, leaving the “bottom” of the pumpkin flat from the spine about half the width of the page.
3. Grab as many pages as you can easily cut, and cut the pumpkin half shape.
4. Press the spine open with each cut so the book lays flat.
5. Use the last page of each cut as a pattern to cut the next section of pages.
6. Continue through the whole book. Tedious. Put on audio Bible or something while you do this part.
7. Heat your glue gun, and put silicone finger savers on a few fingertips. These are so necessary for people who get too close to hot glue and end up with blisters every. single. time.
8. Practice shaping the book into a pumpkin by holding the back few pages to the front few pages. Hopefully the spine makes a nice circle, and you can place a bead of glue down the spine edge and glue it into a round pumpkin shape.
9. Now you’re ready for the stem, twine and leaf/leaves.
10. Pretty neat, huh?

 

 

 

There you have it. A pumpkin from an old book.

I love it. And so ridiculously easy.

If you like it, go ahead and pin the idea to your fall décor DIY board.

Or your upcycle projects.