DIY: flower pumpkin

The most original vase for a dahlia

Today you won’t be using the pumpkin to make soup or a Halloween decoration - it’s going to be a vase! Pick the most fantastically shaped pumpkin, or just an ordinary round orange one. Choose a small one, or one that’s big enough to take several flowers. You can’t get more autumnal than that!

Dahlia DIY flower pumpkin Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk

You will need

  • Pumpkin

  • A beautiful dahlia

  • Knife

  • Spoon

  • Glass jam jar

  • Spray glue

  • Brush

  • Gold leaf

Dahlia Bloemenagenda Mooiwatbloemendoen DIY

How to make it

Step 1:

Cut a hole in the pumpkin the size of the jam jar. Scoop out the contents of the pumpkin with the spoon so that the jam jar fits into it completely.

Dahlia Bloemenagenda Mooiwatbloemendoen DIY

Step 2:

Spray glue onto small parts of the pumpkin and carefully stick the gold leaf onto this. Use the brush to carefully ‘sweep’ the gold leaf onto the pumpkin. 

Dahlia Bloemenagenda Mooiwatbloemendoen DIY

Step 3:

Fill the jam jar with water and, as the finishing touch, place the dahlia in it.

Dahlia Bloemenagenda Mooiwatbloemendoen DIY

Display in the centre of a dinner table, or let it catch the eye in a hallway to welcome in autumn. We bet your friends will give you top prize for originality!