Pumpkin Snowmen

So this fall I bought a BUNCH of pumpkins and had a blast using them at photo sessions here, here, and here.

But what to do with perfectly good pumpkins once Fall has passed?

Make ’em into snowmen!

I’ve got this great friend that does a weekly blog post “Pinned it, Did it, Done”

While, I’ve got no ambitions to do such a project (I’m barley squeaking this post out just days before Christmas!) I’d love to share a project that was inspired by something that I saw online. Not exactly a Pinterest project since I just Googled “decorate pumpkins christmas” and found this site.

I was inspired by the snowmen I saw on this website but didn’t want to have a couple of menacing snowmen heads displayed on my porch… as that may send the wrong message for the holidays. SO I decided to come up with the idea of a full-bodied Frosty.

And here’s how it’s done:

Take your (non-carved) pumpkins and spray paint them white.

Get your lumberjack husband to saw the stems off the pumpkins. Be sure to leave your top pumpkin with a stem, it makes it easier to keep his hat on. 😉

Then, line up your pumpkins ala Snowman Style.

Mark the pumpkins with a marker on both the top and bottom where they ‘connect’. These markings will be used to show just where you want to drill a tiny hole into your pumpkin. I marked three holes on each pumpkin in a “triangle” formation to make sure the front, back and sides would be held together properly.

Once you’ve drilled holes into your pumpkin, insert wooden dowel rods

(Eighty cents per rod at Home Depot. You can use one rod for each connection as you cut them into three pieces. So for 2 snowmen with six pumpkins I purchased 4 rods and cut them into 12 pieces total).

Then drill the matching holes into your connecting pumpkin and then take pumpkin #1 (with the dowels attached) and place those dowels into pumpkin #2. Continue in a similar manner with your last pumpkin.

Sure, I didn’t actually DO most of the work for this project but it was my idea, my direction, my prodding my husband to follow through with a task that he wasn’t quite sure that was going to work out but happily went along with anyway. So that’s why, as Project Manager and Big Idea Person, I get to have my picture taken with our newly assembled pumpkin snowman!

Finally, I cut sparkly foam sheets into circles and glued them on with “Goop”. I dressed my pumpkins Snowmen in some leftover scarves and hats and happily displayed them on our front porch.

Now if only it would snow so it will look like my wintertime friends belong here! 🙂

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