How to Make a Pumpkin Card With a Sweet Surprise | Tutorial

This pumpkin card can be made in only about 20 minutes and it is still something special. For this pumpkin you need only clay paper, glue and a napkin. How you do it yourself, you will learn in this tutorial!

The pumpkin is the classic motif for Halloween and fits any Halloween party – with theme or without. As an original surprise, you can fill it with candy, nuts or sweet surprises. You can use this pumpkin cards as a creative Halloween invitation card which is best not sent by mail but brought personally – or put it on the mailbox or in front of the door. Of course you can use this pumpkin card as a greeting card as well.

The (invitation) text is written on the little roll in the pumpkin head’s mouth. Here you can find text templates for Halloween party invitations for adults.

It is super suitable for crafting with children. All materials and step-by-step instructions are available here at Greatime.

Are you looking for a different motif? Greatime has even more Halloween card tutorials to offer: for a graphic skull card, a decorative witch card, a glow-in-the-dark spooky card, a pretty halloween card with witch cauldron and a halloween card with bat.

Pumpkin Card with a Sweet Surprise – Do It Yourself

Duration: for 12 cards about 2 hours

What You Need

• Orange clay paper
• Green clay paper
• White printer paper
• 1 orange napkin per Halloween invitation card
• Ribbon (orange or green)
• Black permanent marker
• Pencil
• Scissors
• All purpose glue
• Paper clip
• Cutter
• Halloween candy as filling

Crafting the Pumpkin Card in 3 Steps

The following step-by-step instructions describe how to make a card. If you plan to make 10, 20 or even more Halloween invitation cards, it will save time to do step 1 for all cards first, then step 2 for all cards, etc.

1. Draw Pumpkin Card and Print Text

Write the text of your card succinctly on the computer, print it out, and cut out the text as a paper strip. The strip should be no wider than about 6 inches.

Fold the orange sheet of paper in half and draw the pumpkin flush with the folded edge. Pre-draw the stalk on the dark green clay paper.

2. Cut out the Pumpkin and Stump and Paint on the Face

Now cut the pumpkin and make sure that the front and back of the card are connected by about 2 cm. If you make several pumpkin cards, use the first pumpkin as a template for the other pumpkins.

Cut out the stalk once, use it as a template, circle it and cut out the identical pumpkin stalks as well. You need 4 identical green stalks per card.

With black permanent marker you can now draw a grimace on the front of the pumpkin.

3. Pumpkin Cards Ready to Make

Now, using nail scissors, carefully cut a round circle in the grimace – large enough for the rolled-up invitation text to fit inside.

Fold up the pumpkin and glue the open side together with all-purpose glue. The pumpkin face should be glued to the top of the back. Put a paper clip on it so that the glued edge is well pressed together and holds.

Inside a napkin, stuff your surprise, fold it into a bundle and tie it with ribbon.

Now all you have to do is place the bundle inside the pumpkin and put the rolled up invitation in its mouth.

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