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Easy Black and White Halloween Topiary!

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Spray paint foam jack-o-lanterns and stack them to create a Halloween Topiary. Add lights and you have a super cute and festive way to welcome guests to your home! 

Spray paint foam jack-o-lanterns and stack them to create a Halloween Topiary. Add lights and you have a super cute and festive way to welcome guests to your home! 

 

Stacked Pumpkin Topiary DIY

 

This is one of my all-time favorite Halloween projects so I thought I would share it again. I am excited to put this up at our new home. You might know that I simply adore Halloween decor. So when one of the challenges this month from Lowes was Curb Appeal. I thought it would be SO fun to make something Halloween-ish for the front porch at the #1905Cottage. And since the decor over there is mostly yellow, I thought keeping the Halloween theme to basically black and white would be perfect.

Spray paint foam jack-o-lanterns and stack them to create a Halloween Topiary. Add lights and you have a super cute and festive way to welcome guests to your home! 

So I headed over to Lowes. And I found their Halloween section. They had a HUGE bin of lighted pumpkins with different scary faces, and it made me think of making a Halloween topiary.

You see, I made another Halloween topiary a few years ago and it got damaged in my backyard shed, so I have been meaning to make another for quite some time.

Here’s how I made this easy Halloween project: 

DIY Jack-o-Lantern Topiary: 

diy lighted pumpkin topiary halloween at tatertots and jello

 

Stacked Pumpkin Topiary DIY

 

Supplies: 

Halloween lighted pumpkins. I used 5.

A 1″ in circumference wood dowel

A pot

Flowers

Spray Paint (I used black and white)

Primer

Extension Cord

 

Directions: 

I spray painted three of the pumpkins white and the other two black. But first I PRIMED them.

I also spray painted the dowel black

Then I drilled 1″ holes in the pumpkins. I wanted each one to be tilted to each side, alternating. So I marked the spot with an sharpie and drilled.

Then I planted soil and flowers in the pot and put the dowel in the middle.

I alternated the pumpkins, white, black, white, black, white black. On the last pumpkin I didn’t put the second hold through the top, so the dowel rests against the inside of the top pumpkins. I hope that makes sense lol.

Then I threaded the lights down through the back of the pumpkins and plugged them into the extension cord. I taped the cords together with electrical tape so they wouldn’s show as much.

Light it up at night

And here is the Black and White Pumpkin Topiary at night. I just love it!!

stacked pumpkin topiary planter at tatertots and jello

 

Materials for this post were provided by Lowe’s; however, the project and content are all mine. See my disclosures.

pray paint foam jack-o-lanterns and stack them to create a Halloween Topiary. Add lights and you have a super cute and festive way to welcome guests to your home! 

 

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Comments

  2. Melissa says

    Hi! What type of drill bit did you use? I’ve messed up two pumpkins already with the one I’ve tried. Thank you!

        • Jen says

          Hi Tiffany!

          The length of the rod depends on how many pumpkins you want on your topiary. You also need a few inches to sink into your pot. I bought a 5 foot dowel and cut it to the length I needed once all of my pumpkins were stacked up.

          xoxo

  8. leah go forth mudron says

    I love this! The black and white is so nice looking and I adore the entire layout – the pillows are my fav!!! I think I am going to tackle this project this year – thank you for the wonderful idea (and big thank you for instructions)

  10. Lori says

    Love this idea. So cute. I’m going to make it, but trying to understand how you out the lights inside each pumpkin. Did you tape the light around the wood rod?

  11. Jeanne says

    Love this!!! Was thinking of making an arch but two of these would be just as adorable and much easier to store for next year! Did you get the pumpkins this year? Haven’t seen them…

    • Susan Ramsay says

      I think these are Styrofoam pumpkins. But I notice the date on your comment was Oct.5, 2015. I am pretty sure real pumpkins would have been out by then. Maybe it was a bad year for pumpkins. I seem to recall seeing that on the news. I am writing on Aug 2, 2016. Good luck this year.

  13. Katie says

    I finished making this today! Although the only question I have is the lights? Did you just plug them into a power strip at bottom?

  14. Chelsea says

    I think I understand now..the dowel goes through each pumpkin head but you drilled at different angles for each to make them tilt. Hopefully I can make it myself now. Looks really cute

  15. Chelsea says

    I don’t understand the marking of the pumpkin or how it is even put together.. More pics would have been nice

  17. Nicole W says

    I tried to click your link for your previous pumpkin topiary, but it says page not found. I love these! Just wanted to check out the other one too.

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