How to Make a Pumpkin Garland with Twine

Learn how to make a sweet pumpkin garland with twine. The natural texture of jute or twine gives this easy craft a rustic warm and cozy feel that's perfect for your fall decor.

This year's fall mantel is decorated with muted fall colors with natural elements. However, I really wanted to add in a little color, so I decided to create a pumpkin garland using natural twine.

How to Make a Twine Pumpkin Garland

Here's a short video to help you see how easy the pumpkins can be put together.

Dying Twine

I always have natural twine in the house but I also picked up some orange twine. However, natural and orange pumpkins seemed a little boring so I wondered if I could dye some of the natural twine to add in a bit of extra color.

I used food coloring with boiling water and vinegar just like dying eggs at Easter. Using different combinations of red and yellow dye and some blue gave me a few different colored twine for the pumpkins.

Making the Twine Pumpkins

Start with a wrapping paper tube. For these pumpkins, I used one that was about 1.25 inches in diameter. This created pumpkins about 3 inches wide.

Cut the tube to 7 inches in length.

Next cut through the tube lengthwise.

Begin wrapping the twine around the tube from one end to the other. At one point I started taping the ends to help keep the tube shape while wrapping. You can see this in the video below.

When you take off the twine you will get a nice coil that creates a round shape when you tie the ends together

Once you've created the pumpkins, hot glue a small bit of a tree branch to the top for the pumpkin stem.

Tie the pumpkins along a thicker piece of twine and hang your pretty pumpkin garland from the mantel or anywhere you want a little fall whimsy.