By: Reagan Anderson
Materials Needed:
– 4 Orange Pipe Cleaners (12 inch length)
– 1 Green Pipe Cleaner (12 inch length)
– Orange Pony Beads (approximately 130 beads)
– Grab four orange and one green 12 inch pipe cleaner, along with a whole lot of orange pony beads.
Step 1
Line up your pipe cleaners so they are even on each end and twist them together a few times in the middle.
Step 2
Next, spread out each pipe cleaner so they are evenly spaced
Step 3
Start threading the beads onto each pipe cleaner, until all eight are covered. I ended up using about 16 beads per row. Be sure to leave a little more than an inch of pipe cleaner on each end so you can twist them together in the next step.
Step 4
Once you’ve covered your pipe cleaners in beads, it’s time to start shaping your pumpkin! Carefully bend each end upward and gather the points together. Give the ends a couple of twists to secure the beads and hold your pumpkin together!
Step 5
The twisted pipe cleaner at the top is going to be your pumpkin’s stem. If it looks too long, just bend it in half and twist to make the stem shorter
Step 6
Once you’re happy with the shape, you can add the twirly pumpkin vine as the finishing touch! Grab your green pipe cleaner and wrap it around the top “stem”. (That was the twisted orange pipe cleaners we mentioned earlier).
Step 7
Take each of the two green ends and spiral them around your ‘pinky’ finger to form the curly part of the vine. And there you have it! A perfect little beaded pipe cleaner pumpkin!
Craft credits to onelittleproject.com
