Pumpkin Fairy House Jack-O-Lanterns

These real Pumpkin Fairy House Jack-O-Lanterns are the cutest things Halloween has ever seen! We had so much fun carving your pumpkins into fairy houses, and creating a whole pumpkin fairy house villiage. And our favorite part was seeing the warm glowing light through the windows at night -the trick or treaters loved them too!

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• Why We Love These
• Supplies
• Variation
• Pumpkin Fairy House Carving
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Halloween is coming very soon, and this year I have the cutest idea for you, or any fairy loving children you might live with -Pumpkin Fairy House Jack-O-Lanterns.

We love a good fairy garden around here. You might like our How To Make A Fairy Garden post here, How To Make A Fairy Garden House, or our Teacup Fairy Garden. And our Fall Fairy Garden would match perfectly with these pumpkin fairy houses.

These pumpkin fairy houses really could not be any sweeter.  And, I think I’ve seen a few fairies fluttering in and out of them tonight too, so they’re a hit all round.  If you're a fan of fairy gardens, then you will love putting together a fairy house pumpkin.

Supplies

• Pumpkins: We started out with an assortment of pumpkins; some big pumpkins,  some small pumpkins, some orange pumpkins, some white pumpkins, some in-between.  We used real pumpkins to make our little houses.

• Twigs: Small twigs work best that are easy to snap to the perfect size.

• Cloves: We found whole cloves made perfect door handles.

• Fairy Garden Accessories: We had fun with some fairy sized accessories creating a little miniature world for the fairies.  We found the sweetest mini straw bales at the craft store. We also found little brooms, and even a fairy sized bike.  Look for cute little accessories to use in the dollhouse or fairy garden section of your craft store, or on-line.

• Polymer Clay: We made fairy sized pumpkins out of polymer clay, so the fairies could have a tiny faux pumpkin outside their door too.

• Battery Powered Tea Lights: These pumpkin fairy houses are so cute lit up at night. You can just imagine a fairy family in there together.

• Dried Flower, Moss, and Leaves: You can add some beautiful details to your pumpkin fairy houses by gluing on dried flowers, moss and leaves as decorations.

Variation

You can use faux craft pumpkins for this project. The benefit of this is that the pumpkin fairy houses will be everlasting, and you can enjoy them year after year. The disadvantage of using faux is that you can't find as much variation in shape, color, and size as real ones.

Pumpkin Fairy House Carving

1. Start by cutting the bottoms off of your pumpkins, and scooping out all the guts and seeds. Cutting the bottom off rather than the top makes it a little less noticable on your finished pumpkin fairy house -but either way works.

You can also snap off the pumpkin's stem and stack some pumpkins one on top of the other for a cool effect.

2. Carve your doors, windows, and steps.

We carved lots of different windows, some were had large windows, square windows, curved window frames, and one had a circular window. We also added in window sills, and dormers, an arched doorway, and stairs -in every combination we could think of for adorable pumpkin fairy houses.

3. Add details like window frames and doorknobs.

We used some little twigs to make our window frames.  Just snap some sticks to size and poke some small holes inside of the pumpkin window.  

We also used some little cloves as fairy door knobs on some of the front doors.  Little twigs pushed into the pumpkin door work as a doorhandle too.

Any natural materials are a great addition, like pine cones, or acorn caps, dried flowes and leaves and moss. Use hot glue to attach them when needed.

Another time when I made these, I added lots of dried moss, flowers, and leaves with hot glue and it was so pretty, so I've included a few of the pictues as inspiration.

4. Add your fiishing details, like little fences, ladders, pumpkins, and accessories from the craftstore.

To make the polymer clay pumpkins shape them out of orange, white, and brown clay and bake in the oven, according to the instructions on the package.

For the ladders, we used small twigs and hot glue to make them.

5. When they're all finished be sure to add a battery powered tea light (remote control ones are even easier to operate) and light them up.

We had a ball coming up with all these fun ideas.  This is a great project for the whole family to do together.

We had fun setting up the little village.  I used a cute little outdoor chair and a bale of hay to give our adorable little fairy house collection some height.  This was great to because it was at a great height for little trick-or-treaters to see and admire all the fun details, or to welcome guests to a Halloween party.

Frequently Asked Questions

More Halloween Inspiration

If you try these Pumpkin Fairy House or use any other idea on the blog please leave a star rating and let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!