Grapevine Pumpkins Tutorial

I had seen grapevine pumpkins like the ones pictured in the photo below, but I never got around to making one. At first I thought the grapevine around the pumpkins was rusted metal, but I was wrong! This project was so easy.   Since I already had pumpkins for the holidays,  the only cost was buying the wired string that looks like grapevine!

The supplies you will need for this project are:

Pumpkins
Hot Glue
Wired Rope (or grapevine string)
Wire Cutters

The first thing I did was to measure the length of wire I would need for most indents on the pumpkins (I didn’t use wire on each indent as I wanted the wire more evenly spaced out). Once I had all my pieces cut, I formed the wire to the pumpkin then bent the end and pushed it into the bottom of the pumpkin.

Here you can see how I formed the wire to the pumpkin.

Now that the ends were secured to the bottom of the pumpkin, I used hot glue to attach some of the wire tops close to the stem. You don’t have to hot glue all of them; just a few so you can hold the rest with one hand while wrapping a smaller piece of wire around all the top pieces of wire. Then you fold the top pieces over the small band you just added as shown in the photo below.

For the bigger white pumpkin, you should take the wire and wrap it one and a half times around the middle of the pumpkin. Then weave this piece of wire under and around each of your vertical pieces of wire. You can do as many rows like this that you want. I did two rows.

Once you have the horizontal pieces done, wrap more wire around the stem and take two short pieces of wire, wrap them around one of your fingers to make it look curly and attach those to the stem.

This project was easy and fast to do. All three of these took less than an hour to make! They were as simple to create as the Witches Hat I recently made! 

I hope you find inspiration from this grapevine pumpkins tutorial! I’m Dria from Dio Home Improvements. You can find more crafts and DIY’s on my site. You can also find me at Facebook and Pinterest, I’d love for you to stop by and say hi!