Try making a pumpkin fairy house this Autumn! Tips and ideas on how to carve and decorate a lovely and fun pumpkin with your kids.
Updated October 2024
We typically carve or decorate pumpkins several times each fall, because there are always so many options to try.
One that you will definitely want to attempt this year will be pumpkin fairy houses!
This idea is perfect for all kids, but especially those who enjoy making a fairy houses in gardens and backyards. It was inspired by this pumpkin fairy house and is so sweet.
Pumpkin Fairy House
MATERIALS
- pumpkins
- sharpie marker
- knife and other carving utensils
- scoops or spoons for cleaning out pumpkins
- leaves, ferns, acorns and twigs
- air dry clay for fairy furniture and accessories
INSTRUCTIONS
- Design your house
Use your marker to draw the windows and doors of your fairy house.
- Clean out your pumpkin
Either cut off the top of your pumpkin or cut a door big enough to scoop out all of the pumpkin guts.
Then, cut your windows out, too. We used a drill to make perfectly round windows!
- Decorate!
You can use your nature materials to decorate your fairy house. Twigs make perfect windowpanes. We hot glued some acorn decorations on, too.
If you want to take this a step further, you can make furniture and accessories for your fairy house out of air-dry clay.
Once your pumpkin is all carved and decorated how you’d like, put a candle or light inside and see how it glows!
What do you think? Will you try carving a pumpkin fairy house this year? You can even wait until after Halloween and make a sweet little addition to your fall garden!
More Pumpkin Fairy House Ideas
- Make A Haunted Pumpkin House (on HGTV).
- Use gourds and bark steps for this beautiful fairy house (on Little Goodall).
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