Make Your Own Concrete Pumpkins

Add the concrete to the pumpkin mold.

Make your own concrete pumpkins.

Start filling the stockings with concrete. If this is your first pumpkin i suggest you start with a small one before you make bigger ones. We used mortar for the other two. Fill a plastic pumpkin with the concrete to about 1 in 2 5 cm from the top.

Mix your concrete according to the package directions. The hypertufa method will keep your concrete lightweight once dried. Fill it up almost all the way leaving about 1 in 2 5 cm of space at the top so you can insert your center form. Note we created 5 regular solid pumpkins for decor and one candle holder bowl pumpkin for our boo kit.

Spray a cup or jar with cooking non stick spray and insert into your mold to create the bowl. Using dollar store pumpkins you can hack them into a stylish modern halloween or fall decoration. Slowly add water to the concrete and mix until all is well mixed. Feel free to pick up the pumpkins and press the concrete with your fingers to get the twine to make deeper grooves as you tighten the knot.

Depending on how big you want to make the pumpkin fill in the dough and press it together to a round form. Here s how to make concrete pumpkins. Mix up the concrete cement or mortar. I also show you how to keep them lightweig.

Let them dry for 48 72 hours depending on how large you make your pumpkins. For this project you will need one bag of concrete mix or your favorite concrete hypertufa recipe two plastic pumpkin pails a tub to mix the concrete something to mix with hands or a hand hoe cooking spray water an inner mold a couple of tall cups or similar will work something to create a drainage hole like a couple of squares about one inch of styrofoam that was cut from a big piece. Use your large spoon or trowel to scoop concrete into a plastic jack o lantern style pumpkin. It s super easy and depending on the size you want prep work is super quick.

This will create a recess so. Insert a disposable plastic cup or a plastic bottle into the center of the wet concrete mix pushing it down until the top is level with the top rim of the bucket. Concrete projects are so popular and this is an inexpensive and easy way to diy your own faux concrete pumpkin for fall or halloween. You can see the full diy tutorial here.

You can use a mixture of just concrete alone or you can create what s called hypertyfa by adding perlite and peat moss to your concrete mix. Use a small shovel or use your hands to press the cement dough into the stockings.