How to make a DIY jack o'lantern stack garden decoration for Halloween
Plant it in your garden and add some tea lights to create a spooky floating totem!
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Plant it in your garden and add some tea lights to create a spooky floating totem!
When Halloween comes a-knocking my family enthusiastically discusses plans for the event. This year as part of my family’s Halloween preparations we are putting out not one but multiple stacked Jack O’Lanterns to frighten away unsavoury wandering spirits. You’ll like this project for its surprising simplicity. You’ll love the effect of the wobbly stack of pumpkins. At full sundown, they look like they're floating!
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They look like they're floating! Source: supplied.
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What you need:
- 4 plastic pumpkin baskets
- 4 LED tea lights
- 2 stem wires
- Hot glue gun
- Stiletto
Note: As an alternative to LED tea lights you can fill the pumpkins with activated glowsticks.
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A hot glue gun is your friend. Source: supplied.
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Activity
Remove the handles on all four pumpkins. Using a stiletto poke four holes in the bottom of just one of the pumpkins. This pumpkin will be the base of the totem.
Bend two stem wires into a U-shape and feed through the four holes in the base pumpkin, with the ends pointing down. Twist and bend the wires beneath the pumpkin base.
Apply a spot of glue to the rim of the base pumpkin. On an angle press a second pumpkin to the glue. Hold the pumpkins together until the glue has hardened. Glue a third and fourth pumpkin in a similar wonky fashion. Once done the pumpkin totem looks like it is teetering while maintaining the base pumpkin as the centrepiece.
At sundown switch on the LED lights, and place one in each of the stacked pumpkins.
Using the base wires stake the pumpkin stack into garden soil, somewhere near the front door.
You could make one stack for each side of your front door! Source: supplied.
Originally published as How to make a DIY jack o'lantern stack garden decoration for Halloween
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