A pumpkin coach with his own hands: a master class, a step-by-step instruction. Autumn crafts from vegetables

The idea to use a pumpkin as a material for crafts first came to the head of a fairy tale from Charles Perot's fairy tale. But seriously, the wild varieties of this berry in dried form served as dishes, a vessel for water or a lamp from ancient times.

Today, craftsmen who create from vegetables various decorations for the house or elements of festive decor continue to be. For example, the handmade "Pumpkin carriage" will bring a lot of pleasure to your children. In the autumn, you can also make other decorations from leaves, cones, acorns, bunches of berries and other gifts of nature.

What will you need?

First of all, you should decide on the choice of pumpkin. It should be as round as possible and with a pronounced surface relief. Depending on the version of the craft, the pumpkin can be white or bright orange.

It will also be required:

• Sharp long knife;
• Glue gun;
• paper towel;
• Old newspapers or other waste paper;
• Spoon or scraper;
• Paints (aerosol and acrylic);
• awl;
• Elements for decoration.

Material for making wheels

In order to get a completely fabulous pumpkin carriage with your own hands (master class see below), you may also need patissons or large zucchini. They are suitable for making wheels. In addition, some craftsmen use metal covers, bottoms of plastic bottles or other round objects for their work. To make wheels for a pumpkin coach, wire or flat jars from under canned fish, for example, for sprats in oil, can also be used. In the latter case, they should remove the front wall, and on the back - cut the holes in order to plant the wheels on the axle.

Preparing the pumpkin

First of all, it is necessary to dry the fruit. For this, the pumpkin should be carefully opened, cutting off the "cap". Then with a spoon, as thoroughly as possible, clean out the pulp and stuff the pumpkin with crumpled newspapers.

With all diligence, one can never know for sure whether the fruit will rot or not. That's why the masters advise to dry 2-3 pumpkins at once.

The newspapers need to be changed from time to time, as they will absorb moisture from the walls of the fruit.

If there is no time to dry the pumpkin, you need to try to clean the flesh as carefully as possible.

Pumpkin carriage: step by step instruction

Making such a fairy craft is done in the following order:

• From the cardboard, stencils are cut out in the form of carriage windows;
• Apply them to the surface of the pumpkin and apply a contour to the surface of the fruit;
• Knife gently remove excess parts of the walls of the berry.

How to make a pumpkin car by your own hands: a master class on making wheels

Let's start the most interesting stage of creating a vehicle for Cinderella. So:

• If the pumpkin is small, as an axis for the wheels of the coach take toothpicks, and if large - skewers;
• Depending on the material chosen for the wheels, metal holes are made in the middle of the hole, as well as with patissons or circles 2 cm thick, cut from ordinary zucchini large diameter;
• Plant the resulting "details" on the "axis";
• Create the basis for installing the coach (see photo);
• For greater stability, it may be advisable to complement the design with two crossed toothpicks.

Decoration

When a pumpkin carriage is made by own hands (the master class is presented above), it is very important to decorate it correctly.

For example, with the help of a glue gun it is possible to cover the windows of the carriage along the perimeter with gold galloon or metal ornaments. The craftspeople can also paint the Cinderella vehicle and paint it with bronze paint.

If the quality of the material for the wheels are chosen as patissons, they should be "silvered" or "gilded" with an aerosol can.

Additional Details

The handmade "Pumpkin-coach for Cinderella" will be even more beautiful if you add it to the figures of horses. In this case, you will also need to make a harness from silver wire. Alternatively, a hand-crafted pumpkin carriage can be made, of which Cinderella herself looks out. For this, the image of the girl needs to be printed on the printer, cut out, pasted into the "window" and covered with a colorless varnish.

Variant in the style of the cheby chic

If you do not know how to make a pumpkin coach, then pay attention to the original artwork with the music paper. This element of decor is suitable for a wedding in the style of a shebbie-chic. It will come out if you decorate a pumpkin, prepared in the same way as described in the previous master class, using musical paper. Having finished pasting the entire surface of the pumpkin, you need to make the wheels or remove them from a child's toy machine of the appropriate size, and then paint with white paint. Then the craft should be decorated with artificial colors of bed colors, as well as lace, organza or tulle.

"Carving" coach

Those who have skills in carving out figures from vegetables and fruits can create an original vehicle for a pumpkin Cinderella. The answer to the question of how to make a pumpkin carriage in this way depends entirely on your imagination. You can decorate it with fine carvings or depict in the window a princess figure together with a prince. A variant is also possible, when the wheels are carved out of a pumpkin, like a coachman's seat.

Other autumn crafts

A pumpkin carriage, the step-by-step instruction for the manufacture of which you already know, is not the only variant of decorating for a house of materials that can be found in huge numbers after harvesting and the beginning of a leaf fall. For example, you can make:

• Decoration for doors. Create beautiful wreaths for the house is very simple you can. This will require an armful of varicoloured fallen leaves, naturally dried, bunches of berries and squash. First, you need to cut out a solid wheel from the wheel of the desired diameter. Then on it glue a stick pistol leaf and berries. Patissons are placed on pieces of wire and fixed on a ring. In the end, supplement the composition with dried bunches of berries and weave with satin ribbon, for example, bright scarlet. If you want the wreath to turn out to be more festive, you can paint the pumpkins with bronze paint. Such decoration for the door can be made in another way. For example, a cardboard ring can be densely pasted with acorns, and at the edges decorate with ironed multi-colored autumn leaves. Complement the composition will help a bunch of berries or bright ribbons.

• Hedgehog. If you are going to do an article with a child, it is better to choose a simpler version than a magic pumpkin carriage. In the kindergarten, at the exhibition of children's works it is better to take a funny hedgehog out of blossoming cones. To make it, you need a plastic bottle of dark brown color. It should be cut in half (across) and pasted with cones, leaving a narrow part of the loose. Then, on two white caps, paste pupil-pupils of black paper. The resulting "eyes" fix on the "muzzle" hedgehog. On the neck of the bottle put on a black cap-nose. Make an article even more natural will help an apple made of papier-mâché or present, attached to the back of the hedgehog.

• The deer. For such crafts, cones of elongated shape will be required, the tree is cut 3-4 cm thick, the acorn and twigs. Also it is necessary to have at hand an adhesive gun and three beads for the peephole and spout. Cones and acorns need to be fastened in such a way that they depict the neck, head and trunk of a deer. Then it is necessary to paste horns and legs, for which imitation twigs will fit. When the figurine is ready, it should be placed on a piece of wood covered with colorless varnish, using pieces of plasticine and sticking eyes and nose.

Now you know how a fairy-tale cart from a pumpkin can be made with your own hands. Master class on creating other autumn crafts is also known to you, and you will be able to please your children and decorate the house.