Fall Porch Topiaries

Decor

I LOVE fall!! Everything about fall just screams me–holiday parties, pumpkin spice everything, tons of cooking and baking, and DECORATING for the holidays.

Today, I tackled making my own pumpkin topiaries for my front porch. I personally love GOLDS and COPPER colors so of course my topiaries showed those colors off. BUT the best thing about making your own is you can chose the colors you love, how funky you want to make them and if you want them to be holiday specific or multi-purpose {I made mine so I could change out the burlap to keep them for Thanksgiving too! #housewifeWIN }

Here’s the supplies and what you will need to do to make your own!

  • 2 Planters
  • 2 Small, 2 Medium, 2 Large Craft Pumpkins
  • 2 Beach Buckets
  • Weights (Rocks, Metal or something heavy you have laying around)
  • 2 Yards of Burlap
  • 2 Spools of Wired 12ft Ribbon
  • Funky Halloween Decorations (or fall or Thanksgiving)
  • Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue
  • 1 Gold Shimmer Metallic Spray Paint (I used #krylons Metallic in Gold Shimmer)
  • 1 Glitter Gold Spray Paint (Krylons Glitter Blast in Golden Gold)
  • 1 Clear Topcoat Spray Paint
  • 1 Tube #AnnieSloanChalkPaint Gliding Wax in Copper
  • Find a planter you want to use and fill with dirt leaving space at the top for where your bucket will be without your bucket being seen
  • Add bucket and fill with some sort of heavy material (I use a couple of little weights I had laying around but you can use anything. You just want there to be some weight so the pumpkin don’t go flying away)
  • Spray paint the large pumpkin with Gold Glitter just around the top to about 1/4 of the way down the pumpkin. Spray the medium pumpkin completely with the Gold Shimmer follower by the Gold Glitter 1/2 way down the pumpkin. Spray the small pumpkin with the Gold Shimmer followed by the Gold Glitter all the way.
  • Once the pumpkins are dry saw the stems off the large and medium size pumpkins.
  • Add a generous rim of hot glue around the bucket rim and stack the large pumpkin; add hot glue around the top and add the medium pumpkin; add hot glue around the top and add the small pumpkin.
  • Stuff burlap around the bucket and allow some overhang. Hot glue decorations for the season on the burlap. Make sure to not glue to the planter if you want to easy change out for the seasons.
  • Use Copper Gliding Wax with paint brush to go into the creases of the pumpkin toads some special character
  • Add a big bow with ribbon!
  • Repeat
Loving my Halloween themed porch!