Magical Glass Pumpkin Lanterns DIY

Easy magical Glass Pumpkin Lanterns DIY
with round glass bowls, jute rope and string lights.
Fast and fantastic Fall décor. 

 

Everyone has fish bowls, ivy bowls or rose bowls in their stash, right?

You don’t?

Well, visit Dollar Tree, or if you’re a lazy online shopper like me, Amazon has them in bulk.

Then with hot glue and string lights, you can make the most amazing, magically simple pumpkin lanterns.

That look totally high end.

 

 

Supplies to make Rustic Glass Pumpkin Lanterns:

• Round ball fish bowls in any size
• Jute rope
• Scissors, hot glue, silicone finger protectors, needle nose pliers
• 3 mm (8 gauge) wire, new aluminum wire or cut up a wire coat hanger
• silk leaf garland, new or from your stash, and Spanish moss
• fairy string lights

 

 

 

Directions:

1. Clean and shine the glass bowl.
2. Wrap the jute rope from the bottom center of the bowl, up and around the bowl opening, then back to the bottom center (which is going to be the top of the pumpkin). Cut 3 pieces of rope this length.
3. Place a dab of hot glue on the center bottom of the bowl, wrap the rope around the bowl, back to the center bottom again, and glue.
4. Estimate the glass bowl into thirds, and glue the other ropes.
5. I thought of winding the wire into a stem, but my hands weren’t strong enough to make a decent coil. So instead, I used a knot of rope, with about an inch of unwound rope coming up out of the knot. Glue to the bowl in the center where all the rope ends meet.
6. Add leaves and tendrils around the stem. Our tendrils are wire twirls. Wrap the wire around a pencil, then pull out into tendrils. Glue some Spanish moss curls around the stem.
7. Tuck the fairy lights into the opening of the bowl, which is now the bottom of the pumpkin.
8. Make several pumpkins and line up on your table for a centerpiece, with the rest of the leaf garland wound in and around them. Use varying size bowls for interest.