DIY Pumpkin Lantern Made From A Yard Sale Find

3 Materials
$15
2 Hours
Medium

This DIY Pumpkin Lantern came together with a yard sale find, scrap wood from the garage, and some inexpensive pillar candles from Walmart.

It is fall! I know that summer weather is still around, but I am officially calling it fall in our home. I am so happy to be inspired again and maybe get some rooms done that have been “undecorated” since the pandemic sucked the creative juices right out of me. I don’t know about you, but I was struggling there for a bit and not really knowing what was up. I felt happy, but I was not inspired to really create or decorate at all.

I am changing that this fall and this project got me started.

I found this heavy, wire pumpkin at one of the two yard sales I went to this summer.

It was homemade by someone in her family. I was happy to bring it home and see what I could do with it. 

I loved the rustic and industrial vibe the pumpkin had going on, but I wanted to make it feel a little more like fall. Giving it an aged copper look would do just that. It is the same technique I used on my  DIY Aged Copper Jack-O-Lanterns. This process is the easiest DIY I have ever done and it works on any surface you put it on. If you haven’t tried it yet, you must! It is a project that you can’t screw up and it works every time.

Once I had the copper look done and it was dry, Matt measured the inside base of the pumpkin and cut a board to fit. He used an old board we had in the garage. I stained it a dark color and let it dry.

Matt attached the board to the wire pumpkin using washers and a screw.

Then, I picked up some inexpensive (aff)  pillar candles and set them on the board inside the pumpkin.

It would be great to put some LED candles inside the pumpkin, but I had envisioned the wax dripping down the candles and puddling around them on the board.

The pumpkin looks so different from when I picked it up.

I held a lighter to the sides of the candles so I could get them to drip. I love the way it looks inside the pumpkin.

The copper patina looks so good.

The board inside the pumpkin can be decorated in so many ways.


To see more about this project and the supplies I used, head to my blog post: https://mycreativedays.porch.com/diy-pumpkin-lantern-made-from-a-yard-sale-find/

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