If you’re looking to decorate and spruce up your house for Autumn, here are some pumpkin flower planters that will look awesome around the home.
While pumpkins may be growing in your garden right now or on friends porches everywhere- there’s always other ways to transform a pumpkin into an artistic masterpiece! For example: these mums!
Picking out the perfect pumpkin for your home decor is always hard. But with our easy-to-follow tutorials, you’ll have no trouble transforming these orange pumpkins into something beautiful!
1. DIY Pumpkin Flower Pot
This is an incredible, brightly colored planter that will perfectly house your seasonal mums! You’ll use a faux pumpkin from the craft store.
For easiest crafting pick one with hollow or foam walls so you can drop in some of those beautiful plants without worrying about them getting caught on anything inside the potting area. Once the pumpkin is ready, drop you plants and enjoy the view!
2. Tipsy Pumpkin Planter
Is this a Halloween decoration or an art installation? A tipsy, stackable planter tower made out of cheap plastic jack-o’lanterns.
These spooky structures come with garden stakes to keep them sturdy and they’re so easy to create! Just stack two on top of each other until they reach your desired height – once the project is finished you’ll WOW everyone!
3. Burlap Découpage Pumpkin Planter
Burlap is a more natural fabric, and you can find it everywhere from weddings to birthday parties. A great way use this trendy material as a planter too!
Simply glue strips of burlap onto your plastic pumpkin with Mod Podge then seal in place for some added richness that won’t come off until its time expires–or even longer if necessary thanks to the waterproofing properties found within all those fibers.
4. Succulent Pumpkin Planter
Here’s a cute take on the traditional pumpkin planter, utilizing succulents instead of mums or other fall flowers.
Succulent plants are low maintenance and your pretty pumpkins should last about 1-2 months as long as you mist them twice per week and keep in an area with cool temperatures (60 F – 80F).
5. DIY Green Succulent Pumpkin Planter
This take on a real pumpkin planter is perfect for those who want to make an impression with minimal maintenance. It can be used immediately, but if you’re looking at long term storage of your centerpiece it’s best made the day before Halloween because pumpkins begin decay after six weeks without food or water.
For extra creepiness put some toy spiders outside and glue them in place!
6. DIY Miniature Succulent-Filled Pumpkins
For those who love succulents, it’s time to get your feet wet! If you haven’t already noticed, we’re a big fan of succulents. Especially when they can be used as part or centerpiece and since there are so many colors to choose from! Succulent come in all shapes and sizes which makes them perfect for unique centerpieces like this one.
To keep your succulents healthy and happy, you need to use a plastic bag placed between the pumpkin and the soil. This way the soil doesn’t get wet or saturated with water which will kill all of these little plants in an instant!
7. Chalkboard Pumpkin Planters
So, you’re looking to spruce up your home with some fall decor? Well here’s another trendy idea that will be sure not get lost in the crowd. Take those cheap dollar planters anyone can find during this time of year and use them as hanging pumpkin pots!
The best part about these is how easy they are- all it takes is paint! To transform these bright orange Jack-O-Lanterns, paint them with a few layers of chalkboard paint and add your mums. You can do this project easily throughout the year!
The best part is that it’s such an easy way to change messages on planters for each season or event – perfect if you’re looking for something different every day of fall 😊
8. DIY Pumpkin Planters from Upcycled Materials
You don’t need to buy a bunch of materials for fall decorating, you can get creative and reuse some old plastic containers! All it takes is paint in different colors with painter’s tape.
Plus this project will be fun enough that the kids might even want help out too (they’d love to help!)!
9. Easy Succulent Garden Pumpkin Planters
If you’re looking for a more subtle, elegant way to decorate your home this fall season why not ditch the orange pumpkins in favor of white faux pumpkin planters filled with succulents?
These incredible bespoke displays can be easily customized with different succulents depending on what your personal style is. The contrast between these two elements looks great as well!
10. Front Porch Pumpkin Planter
This adorable variation on the faux pumpkin planter utilizes an enormous plastic pumpkin as the potting soil, which is then filled with one or two colors of mums.
The little addition of a scarecrow stake adds just enough festive fun for any door! Swap out your spooky decoration come Halloween so it matches the season!
11. Elegant “Terrarium” Pumpkin Succulent Planter
More succulents! This take on the faux pumpkin planter opts to leave its “funkin” intact and instead creates cut-out windows into a hollow interior, where they’re planted in surrounding by pebbles.
A great project that allows you customize how many openings you want, their size as well what shape – just make sure there are drainage holes at bottom too for effective use of space inside this awesome gourd vessel though!