September October 2021 web

Just For Kids
Canning Ring Pumpkins
Super sweet rustic pumpkins created from old canning rings
For years we have saw this cute simple craft on Pinterest and
wanted to make some but never had spare canning rings. A
friends was selling their home and moving south and had a huge
box, perfect.
They can be as rusty or shiny as you like them.
I used the pipe cleaner method of securing them together, arrange
in a circle in your color order, put pipe cleaner around the
center, twist tight and done!
I spray painted some of the rings Rustoleum Spray paint in lagoon
in multiple coats and added them between gold ones.
Hot glued cinnamon sticks cut to about an inch long formed the
stem and jute for the tendrils finished off the rustic pumpkins.
Simple easy and fun fall project, give it a try ;)
Gnome Pumpkins
Littles will love crafting these lovable little friends. No fabric scraps?
Try using patterned paper for hats instead.
Make the pumpkin: Trace hat template on wool fabric, adjusting size
as necessary; cut out. Use craft glue or iron-on fusible tape to glue
straight edges together. Fill hat with batting to help it stand upright;
set on pumpkin. Attach a small wood craft bead to a small pumpkin
with hot-glue to create a nose. Attach strands of yarn with hot glue
around nose to create beard; trim as necessary.
Mummy Pumpkins
These mummies are just as cute as a button!
Make the pumpkin: Wrap a small white pumpkin with
strips of gauze, holding strips in place where necessary
with hot-glue. Attach two differently sized black
buttons with hot-glue to create eyes. Tack down a
length of thin black twine with staple-gun staples to
create a mouth.
10 September/October 2021 I QC Family Focus