Moon & Stars Totem
For an interesting twist on your fall décor, create a totem of pumpkins as a house number post!
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3 hours plus drying time
- Krylon® Fusion® for
Plastic
- River Rock
- Chocolate Brown Hammered
- Krylon® Short Cuts® Paint
Pens
- Black
- White
- Sun Yellow
- Artificial carveable pumpkins: five pumpkins in progressive size
- Stencils: 4-5” numbers, bats, moon, stars
- Dowel: 1/2” diameter x 3” long
- Sand: 5 pounds
- Paring knife
- Masking paper and tape
- Pencil
- Determine the order in which the pumpkins will stack with largest as the base and progressively smaller to the top.
- With a paring knife, carefully cut the stem off all but the top pumpkin, leaving a 1” hole. Cut a 1” hole in the bottom of all but the bottom pumpkin, allowing the pumpkins to be threaded onto the dowel.
- Spray paint the individual pumpkins with Krylon® Fusion® in River Rock; repeating coats as necessary for complete coverage. Allow to dry.
- To add texture and dimension, spritz tops and bottoms of pumpkins lightly with Krylon® Fusion® in Chocolate Brown Hammered, allowing paint to mist onto the foundation coat of Fusion® River Rock.
- Position number stencils onto one of the pumpkins, masking off all areas not to be painted. Spray numbers with Krylon® Fusion® in Chocolate Brown Hammered; allow to dry.
- Using various halloween themed stencils, trace designs onto pumpkins, or draw them free-hand. Using Krylon® Paint Pens in Black, White, and Sun Yellow fill in and outline designs. Outline house numbers with black.
- Add sand to bottom pumpkin and insert dowel into sand. Thread other pumpkins onto dowel. Note: you may need to cut the dowel to fit the height of your totem.
Moon & Stars Totem was designed by Roxi Phillips.
Learn how to make fun Fall decorations by exploring more seasonal spray paint projects from Krylon.