Dollar Tree Hack – Hair Bun Donut Pumpkins

This fall craft shows you how to take a dollar tree hair bun donut and turn it into a festive fall pumpkin. Use these fall pumpkins as decorations or as a centrepiece for your fall or Thanksgiving table.

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What you need

Hair Bun Donuts 

Wool or twine

Embellishments Fall picks

Rope, twigs or thick twine for stalks

Hot glue or craft glue

Instructions

These project photos were contributed by Gina Enlow. Thanks for sharing your creation with us Gina, We love it!

This is one of those wonderfully sneaky Dollar Tree crafts where the supply list sounds a little odd at first — hair bun donuts, yarn and rope — but the finished result is absolutely charming. These hair bun donut pumpkins are made by wrapping yarn, twine or wool around a simple bun form to create soft little pumpkins that look perfect for fall decorating, Halloween displays or a Thanksgiving table centrepiece.

The best part is how easy they are to customise. Use chunky yarn for a cosy farmhouse pumpkin, soft cream wool for a neutral autumn display, or rich burgundy, mustard, olive and brown yarn for that warm harvest look. Add a frayed rope stem, wooden leaves, fall picks or tiny berries, and suddenly your humble hair bun donut has had a full seasonal glow-up.

This is a great budget fall craft for using up leftover yarn from your stash — and we all know there is always one odd ball of yarn hanging around with no real plan. If you don’t have a hair bun donut, you can even make your own base from a clean old sock rolled into a donut shape, which makes this a lovely recycled craft too. The original CraftBits tutorial uses hair bun donuts, wool or twine, embellishments, rope or twigs for stalks, and hot glue or craft glue.

These fun Fall or Thanksgiving pumpkins are made by using a Dollar tree hack. For this craft you take hair bun donuts and wrap them with lengths of twine or wool.

If you don’t have hair buns, you can make your donut out of old socks (clean ones of course). Cut the toe off and roll the sock to form a donut.  Then carry on with the instructions as follows.

1. Wrap the donut with twine, by securing the end of the twine to the donut with a dab of glue, then wrap the donut until the whole pumpkin is covered.
2. You can finish off your pumpkin by adding a stalk to the middle. Gina made hers using small lengths of rope that were frayed and glued into the middle but you can also use thick twigs from your garden or rolled-up felt, or fabric.
3. Add leaves or other Thanksgiving embellishments to your pumpkins.

Create a Pumpkin collection by using different yarn textures and colors and place them into a bowl.