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Here at Castle & Cooke, we love to decorate our homes. Check out 5 of our favorite DIY fall decoration projects!

 Ombre wine bottles

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What you need:

Directions:

  1. Remove the labels on the bottles. (Tip: Soaking bottles in hot water helps the labels peel off easily.)
  2. Set up your spray paint ares. (Tip: Always spray outside or in a well ventilated area)
  3. First spray the entire bottle white, then orange in the middle, then yellow on the bottom!
  4. Let dry for an hour!

Pumpkin Vase

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What you need:

Directions:

  1. Paint your pumpkin however you would like.
  2. Let them dry and then drill about 10 small holes in the top of your pumpkin. Brush off any excess grit.
  3. Cut your fake flowers or leaves into small bunches with the wire cutters, then insert them into the holes.

Wine Cork Pumpkin

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What you need:

Directions:

  1. Dilute the paint with a bit of water and paint both ends of all but one cork. Allow to dry.
  2. Arrange the corks in rows (4 on the bottom, then 5, then 6, then 5, and 4 on the top row) and hot glue them together. For best results, try to match up the corks so they’re the same length in each row.
  3. Take the one remaining cork and cut off part of it with the craft knife. Hot glue it on top as the stem.
  4. Cut leaf shapes from the green felt and hot glue them on around the “stem”.
  5. Tie a short length of twine around the stem to resemble the vine.

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What you need: 

Directions:

  1. Lay out 5 jumbo craft sticks side by side and glue them down on top of the piece of cardboard
  2. Glue raffia to the top of the craft sticks in a messy fashion to create the scarecrow’s “hair”
  3. Make your hat: Cut your foam rectangle to the shape of a hat (any shape!) Glue down the strip of foam to the hat and add flower stickers if you’d like.
  4. Glue your hat to the top of the raffia. (This is the last piece that does, so tell the kids to put a good amount of glue on the rafia, use the hat down firmly, then leave it alone.)
  5. Add your face: Glue down 2 google eyes, or use the glue dots. Glue down the rectangle nose. Draw a smile with a crayon or marker.

Pumpkin Garland

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What you need:

Directions:

  1. Wrap yarn around four fingers about 120 times or so.
  2. Cut a 10 in piece of yarn and stick it between your fingers to war it around the big yarn loop
  3. Line up the piece of yarn in the middle of the yarn loop, and tie- pulling taut and wrapping around the backside as well.
  4. You now have your basic pumpkin shape Cut a 2 inch piece of pipe cleaner and tie to the pumpkin using the two loose strands of yarn from Step 3. Don’t trim the strands yet!
  5. Wrap the pipe cleaner around itself to form the stem.
  6. Pretty up your pumpkin by tucking in any loose loops
  7. Once again using the loose strings on the pumpkin to tie them around the twine. Continue making pumpkins until you have enough for your garland.