Jute Pumpkins

Last week, when Alaina spent the night, we made pumpkins out of jute.  Here's how we made them.

You need:
medium weight jute, needs to be able to hold the shape.  We used natural and white
Cinnamon sticks
wire to tie jute
Hot glue gun
ribbon for bow on top.

Here's Alaina making loops with the jute. Take the jute, and wrap it 9 or 10 times around 4 fingers for a kid, 3 for an adult. Then remove jute and twist wire to hold the loops together.

Here's some of the loops, ready to assemble.  

Take 8-10 of these jute loops and glue them to a cinnamon stick, keeping the loops on the bottom, so the top of the stick looks like a pumpkin stem.

Take another piece of jute and tie it tightly around the cinnamon stick and jute loops to keep everything together.

Fluff and separate the jute loops so it looks like a pumpkin.
Tie a little bow around the cinnamon stick above the jute.
Your little pumpkin is ready!

Here's Alaina with the two pumpkins she made.

Here's our completed pumpkins.  We brought one home for Ruby and brought one to my stepmom in Assisted Living.  Alaina took her 2 pumpkins home to put in her room.
This was an easy but cute Fall craft.