FALL DIY

Dollar Tree Pumpkin Topiary

I enjoy making simple Dollar Tree DIYs. Something about the seasons changing and holidays coming up get everyone excited to pull out the glue gun, sticks and get those creative juices flowing.

I really love topiaries! Whether it is a DIY or a purchase from the store, I love! Shopping at the Dollar Tree and especially loving these certain ceramic pumpkins. I picked up a few of them cause I knew I had a few already from last year, they are really nice for $1.00. This particular design goes really quickly at Dollar Tree so be sure to grab them. The cream color was the first to go! They also come in a sage green and orange as well. 

MATERIALS:

3 Ceramic Pumpkins (With hole opening at the bottom)

E600 glue

Hot Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

Pack of small leaves 

 Floral Moss

Spanish Moss

Raffia

*Everything can be found at the Dollar Tree except glue gun and E6000 glue

Directions:

1. Remove the pricing stickers from the bottom of the pumpkins. Be sure to clean pumpkins from any debris so that they E600 glue sticks well to the pumpkins.
2. Start by taking one of the pumpkins and stacking the other on top of it. You may want to play around with it at first. I noticed that some of the pumpkins are a little more narrow than the others, making sure that they are completely straight can be tricky.

     3.Once you feel comfortable with the placement of the stacking for the pumpkins add the E600 glue to the middle area of the bottom of          the pumpkin. Make sure not to add too much glue because it will ooze out when you stack the pumpkins on top of the other.

4. Be sure that the pumpkins are straight. Having a crooked pumpkin stack would totally be a mess.
5. Let it dry for a couple of hours or overnight. I like for my projects to dry overnight when working with E6000 glue.
6. Once it is dry. Turn the pumpkin stack on the side and be sure it does not roll off your work surface.
7. Add leaves by adding them one at a time with a staggering/overlapping effect. Be sure to make sure that you pumpkin stack will stand up flat throughout the process of adding more leaves to the bottom.
8. This is an optional step but you can add a pinch size of moss around the base of your pumpkin. Be careful not to burn yourself with adding the moss and hot glue. Using a toothpick would be ideal for pushing the moss against the base of the pumpkin along with the hot glue. Tucking it sporadically throughout the bottom of the (not evenly) makes it look more natural.
9. Be sure to remove any excess hot glue strings from your pumpkin topiary stack. Removing all traces of excess glue helps make your project look more professional, store-bought and original.
10. In additional adding a few pieces of raffia on the bottom to create that harvest look with your topiary. When adding the raffia to the bottom make sure that the topiary stands up straight up and it doesn’t look lopsided.
11. Now your all done! You have a very simple and easy Fall Pumpkin DIY Topiary.

12. Enjoy and decorate for FALL! YAY!!