Isn’t this adorable? A couple of years ago I had like a bajillion marigolds growing in my backyard and I had seen this idea on Better Homes and gardens so my daughter and I decided to try and make this Easy Marigold Pumpkin Tutorial for you!
Marigold Pumpkin Items Needed
- Small Urn
- Wet Floral foam
- Dry floral foam is needed
- Lots of marigolds
We used a small urn that I had in my storage of vases that I thought would make this marigold pumpkin look cute but you can use whatever you have! The urn was a little deep so I used pieces of dry floral foam to put in the bottom of the urn and then added some wet floral foam on top.
Marigold Pumpkin Directions
Once I placed the dry floral foam in the bottom of the urn and added the wet floral foam it was kind of wobbly, so we used a bamboo skewer to attach the two floral foams together. It worked perfectly! In the future I would probably of used only the wet floral foam because it dries out fast.
Now you can start adding in the marigolds! I love using marigolds for centerpieces because they grow in abundance and they look so bright and happy. You can see another one of my easy marigold centerpiece ideas here in my simple fall tablescape using marigolds.
Simply poke marigold flowers one by one into the wet floral foam starting at the bottom. As you poke the flowers into the foam leave a little a little space in between until you have covered the entire piece of foam.
Fill in spots where there might be gaps with smaller marigolds so it looks nice and full. For the top of our pumpkin we added in some green leaves to make it look more like a pumpkin 🙂
You can watch our video tutorial that we made to show how we made the Easy Marigold Pumpkin .
Paula@SweetPea says
I love this idea so much! Pinned and scheduled to my FB page.
Niki says
This is so pretty! Thanks for sharing on Traffic Jam Weekend! Pinned!
Katie Mansfield says
This is gorgeous. So pretty and creative.
Julie Briones says
This is so pretty… Marigolds are not usually my choice of flower, but this looks lovely!
admin says
Hi Julie,
I love the bright orange color of the marigolds and I wouldn’t normally think to choose marigolds but I had sooo many in my garden and saw this idea on BHG a couple of years ago and just had to try to make it. I love how it turned out! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
Karin
Thank you for including me and linking back.
Karin