Baggott Farmhouse

Faux Pumpkin Stack

Let me just start by saying that this is probably the easiest DIY out there. I absolutely love the look of a good pumpkin stack. However, they can be kind of pricey. The cheapest I’ve found was around $40 and that’s just a little more than I wanted to spend. The more I looked at those pumpkin stacks the more I thought how easy it would be to make one. And a major bonus is that my DIY one isn’t breakable like the ones in stores!

Here is a little before of the pumpkins for you. Not ugly, just not the colors I’m really going for.

All you need is a few faux pumpkins (preferable the styrofoam type), hot glue, and paint of choice (if you want). You’re going to want to make sure the pumpkins are different sizes…typically one small, one medium and one large sized pumpkin will do. For this project, here I what I did…

1. Remove stems- most of the time the stems are just hot glued and you can pull them right off. I told you, easy peasy!
2. Hot glue pumpkins together
3. Paint (only if you don’t like the color of the pumpkins).

For the paint I used Rust-Oleum paint & primer ultra matte spray paint in white. Now I may go back and use a textured stone spray paint or do the terracotta method, but for now the white looks great with the rest of my decor.

You can use any pumpkins you’d like. I had these on hand from years past. I have seen a lot of people use fake jack-o-lanterns like these, paper mâche pumpkins or the foam styrofoam pumpkins from Dollar Tree.. I used a variety of these which can be found at Walmart or just about any department store.

Once you get the color you desire and paint the pumpkin, let it dry about 85-90% and then sprinkle with flour or baking soda. For this particular pumpkin I used baking soda and then sprayed it with a clear matte polycrylic to ensure that it stuck.