Supplies:

1. Fabric
2. Foam pumpkin
3. Exacto knife
4. Cricut tool or other tool to assist
5. Stick or something to use as a stem for your pumpkin
6. Ribbon, jute twine, and other decorative pieces
7. Hot glue and glue gun
8. Scissors
9. My design from my library to cut out strips, which can be cut out by hand or with a machine.
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Steps:

1.Cut shapes out of fabric. You can use my template and cut them out by hand or use my template to have your Cricut machine or other similar machines cut out about 11 of them for you if you are using the same Dollar Tree foam pumpkin. If you use a different size pumpkin, then make sure to size the shapes accordingly. I used my Cricut maker with the rotary blade on the cotton setting with more pressure selected. I also used the pink fabric mat. There were a few strands of fabric that needed to be lightly pulled apart, but this setting worked well for my fabric.

2. Remove the foam stem on the pumpkin along with the toothpick that is used to hold it in place. Mine was glued down well, but usually they are pretty easy to remove.

3. Use exacto knife to make lines down your pumpkin between all of the bumps/the areas you want to tuck your fabric. You can make these lines as you go encase you go crooked like I did.

4. Place fabric strip in place and use Cricut tool or other similar tool to push fabric into the areas made with the exacto knife. Press the tip of the fabric into the top and the bottom of the pumpkin with scissors or other method as desired. Continue until entire pumpkin is covered.

5. Add hot glue in any areas that might need it, especially the top and bottom. Use the hot glue to add extra decorative pieces to pumpkin like the stem.

These foam pumpkins are a lot of fun and easy to make over with fabric. I like this new twist by pressing the fabric into the foam to make the indentations of the pumpkin stand out. It takes a little more work and time, but I did not think it was to bad. This would be really fun with a fabric that had a quilted look to it. I almost added jute twine in all of the creased areas, but decided not to because I thought it took away from/covered up the work I did.