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Kid's Craft - Button Pumpkin

Written by The Team at GDI | Sep 25, 2014 3:59:00 PM

Keep the kids busy with their own Button Pumpkin project!

Here's what you'll need:

Here's what you do:

Cut a pumpkin shape out of orange cardstock so it's about 7" tall. Cut a top/stem out of green cardstock. You could use a die cutting machine to cut out the pumpkin if you have one.

Attach the stem with Craft Glue Dots, or use Pop Up Glue Dots for extra dimension.

Tie twine around the stem of the pumpkin.

Using Craft Glue Dots, attach orange buttons to the orange pumpkin. Be sure to include various shapes, sizes, and textures of buttons for the kids.

To frame the pumpkin, cut background patterned paper to fit inside the frame.

Write sentiment on striped (or a different patterned paper) and cut into a banner shape.

Attach finished pumpkin to the background paper using Craft Glue Dots.

Attach banner to the front of the pumpkin using Craft Glue Dots, or use Pop-Up Glue Dots for added dimension.

Assemble project inside of frame and start decorating for Halloween!

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