Pumpkin Head Wire Dolls DIY - #TrendyTopics

5 Materials
$4
1 Hour
Easy
Don't you just love making cute Halloween decorations! Here's an easy tutorial to make adorable pumpkin head wire dolls for your fall décor! These handcrafted dolls are such a fun fall craft for anyone to create. You can dress them up in so many ways using colorful fall flowers and leaves! And the best part, most of the materials you need are $1 or less!
Begin by inserting an ice pick or pointed end into the bottom of a small pumpkin about halve way up. Next, cut a 24" piece of floral wire - the kind you find at Dollar Tree works best - and fold in half. The smaller doll requires an 18" length of wire. Then place a dab of glue on the folded end and insert up into the base of the pumpkin and let dry.
Twist the wire a couple of times, creating the neck. To make the arms, take one of the wires, stretching it horizontally and measure 1 1/2" from neck, folding the wire towards the neck, wrapping around the vertical wire and down. The other arm is done the same way by stretching the wire out horizontally again, measuring 1 1/2" folding back towards neck and wrapping over the first arm and down. You can paint on the eyes by dipping the flat end of a skewer stick in black paint and dabbing it on the pumpkin. Next, dip the pointed end of the stick into the paint and make triangles on top of the circles, blending them in. Use the pointed end of the stick to add the mouth. After the black paint dries, add white dots on the eyes by using the pointed stick end, too.
To create the torso, grab the two long ends and twist together four or five times, measuring 3/4 of an inch. Be sure to match up the length of the legs, cutting off any excess wire.
To wrap the doll, place a dab of hot glue on the middle of the torso and lay the end of embroidery thread on top, and begin wrapping the thread around the torso a few times and up towards the arm and begin wrapping the arm as evenly and neatly as possible.
When reaching the end of the arm, place a small dab of glue on the end and wrap the thread around several times and back towards the torso.
After wrapping the arm back and reaching the torso, wrap around the torso a few times and then begin wrapping around the other arm, the same as before, dabbing hot glue on the end, etc. Then wrap around the neck towards the base of the pumpkin head, wrapping evenly as you go up, then wrap back down to the arms . . . there, wrap a few times diagonal across the shoulders, one side at a time, criss-crossing, creating an X around the shoulders and arms. Continue to wrap down towards the leg and end, applying hot glue and wrapping several times and back up to the other leg.
Once the last leg is wrapped, go back up to the torso, wrap several times, filling in any open spots, then place a dab of glue on center of torso, wrapping thread around several times to seal and cutting off excess thread. To make a cover dress suit, add a dab of glue on torso and place a coordinating color thread on top. Begin wrapping torso, up to underneath the arms, wrapping each side, creating an X around the shoulders, back up to form the top of the suit and wrapping down and around the torso and then each leg and back to the torso for the bottom portion. Finish with a dab of glue on torso and wrapping thread around to seal and complete the look.
To dress the dolls:1. Take a bunch of fluffy flowers2. And separate the layers of the flowers3. Line up the layers by size from small to large4. Beginning with the smallest flower layer, fold in half and make very small slits in a + pattern to widen opening.5. Make tiny slits on all the layers, to pull on to the wire dolls, layering by small to large for a fluffy look!
And finally, add the smallest flower layer to the pumpkin top for an adorable hat!And for the larger wire doll, leaves were glued to the front and back and a plastic flower sepal from the flowers was glued to the top for a hat!
What fun to make!
Suggested materials:
  • Tiny Pumpkins   (Dollar Tree)
  • Floral Wire   (Dollar Tree)
  • Embroidery Thread   (craft stores)
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Gail@Purple Hues and Me
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