How To Decorate Mini White Pumpkins Without Carving

What can you do with mini white pumpkins? You can decorate them with items from your junk drawer or workshop. You don’t have to carve pumpkins and make a mess. Try these ideas.

Round, sticky-back black wall protectors look good against the white pumpkins. And all you have to do is stick them to the pumpkins! This would work for large pumpkins, too. The black wall protectors would look pretty cool on orange pumpkins.

But that’s just the first fun idea. I used upholstery tacks to add pizzazz to the small pumpkins. Again, all you have to do is stick the tacks into the pumpkins in a random but nice-looking arrangement. I do some crazy things. I mean, who else uses tacks and wall protectors to decorate pumpkins?

How do you display mini pumpkins? I used a few of my favorite junk treasures to display my pumpkins. You can also set them on mirrored trays on your countertop, coffee table, or buffet. 

I bought this bunch of white pumpkins at a local patch a couple of weeks ago. Buy local when you can. The price at the pumpkin patch is cheaper than the garden stores or discount stores.

I had my granddaughter, Sofi, all day, and after she left I went down to the workshop for a little crafting time. I had those white pumpkins, and I needed to spice them up.

I gathered a few things from my DIY supplies to pretty up the pumpkins. At this point I was wingin’ it….seeing what I had to work with and going from there.

I found antique brass upholstery tacks hanging on the peg board and a few bright gold tacks in a bag. I also had a lot of stick-on wall protectors, large and small.

The small wall protectors had a felt look to them. Who but me would think to spray paint the felt wall protectors…and who would think it would work? You never know until you try!

I selected the blue and orange colors just because I like the color combo…think Florida Gators (insert smiley face) and I live in Tennessee. (insert another smiley face).

If you guys have been around here for a long time, you know some of my favorite color combinations are blue and orange or turquoise and orange.

Supplies for this project:
Gold Stars (similar)
RustOleum Spray Paint- Orange,    Blue
Upholstery Tacks- antique brass,  shiny gold
Wall Protectors (similar)

 

The spray paint dried quickly, and I stuck the spray-painted felt pieces on the pumpkins in a random fashion: one blue-dotted pumpkin and one orange-dotted pumpkin.

I stuck the tacks into the pumpkins just all willy-nilly but in a nice, perfectly imperfect pattern. The tacks really stand out against the white pumpkins. I like the shiny gold tacks the best.

After I got all the pumpkins decorated, I searched the shelves in the workshop for cool stuff to display the pumpkins. My shelves are full of rusty, junky stuff found at my favorite junk shop.

 

I didn’t paint the black foam wall protectors…just stuck them on as they were. This project took about 1 hour…..spray painting….decorating….and photography….. done.

How fun are they! Do you love them….or think they’re too tacky ….pun intended? I could call them “tacky pumpkins” or “tackful pumpkins”.

If you like these pumpkins, wait until you see my “Eclipse Pumpkins”, click here.

Do you decorate your pumpkins, carve them into jack-o-lanterns, or go for the natural look? I usually gather several large orange pumpkins and display them on the front porch, along with gourds and mums and my usual junky stuff.

Leave a comment, please. I read them all. Have a great day, Kathy