Pumpkin Magnet/ Note Holder
- 2 Green Chenille Stems (Pipe cleaners)
- Craft Glue
- 1 pad post-it-notes (for note holder)
- Scrap Green Felt
- 7" Square of Orange Craft Foam
- Black Permanent Marker
- one piece 1 ½" x 1" Magnet or two pieces 1 ½" x ½" magnet
- 4 Craft foam leaves approximately 2" long (or scraps of craft foam to cut your own)
1) Trace and cut out pumpkin shape from orange craft foam.
2) Cut two 4 1/4" pipe cleaners for arms; cut two 5 ½" pipe cleaners for
legs and one 2 1/4" piece
for vine.
3) If you don’t have pre-cut craft foam leaves you will need to cut 4 (2
for hands and 2 for feet)
leaves from scraps of craft foam.
4) Decide which 2 leaves will be used for the hands and poke one end of
the 4 ½" pipe cleaner
into the leaf from the back and then poke it back thru the leaf to the
backside. Repeat to make
the second arm and hand.
5) Wrap the pipe cleaners around a pencil or pen, slide it off the
pencil and gently pull to stretch
it a little. Be sure not to curl too close to the end.
6) With the other end of the pipe cleaner which is opposite the leaf
hands, poke it through one side
of the pumpkin close to the edge and twist
to secure it together with itself. Repeat with the second arm.
7) Repeat step 4 only use the 5 ½" pipe cleaners and the two leaves you
want for feet.
8) Repeat steps 5 and 6 with the legs but secure them to the bottom of
the pumpkin.
9) Cut a piece of green felt to cover the stem and glue it in place.
10) Poke the 2 1/4" piece of pipe cleaner thru the pumpkin near the stem
and fold the end over to
hold it in place. Curl slightly around a pencil or your fingertip.
11) Attach magnet to the back of the pumpkin.
12) For regular pumpkin magnet, draw a face and you’re done.
13) For notepad pumpkin, glue the back of a pad of post-it’s (w/ craft
glue) to the center of the
pumpkin and draw eyes above it.
*If you use up all the paper in your notepad simply glue on another
post-it pad.
