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Wine Cork Pumpkin – DIY Pumpkin Made from Wine Corks

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This wine cork pumpkin is an easy DIY project that comes together in a few hours. It’s perfect for not only fall, but Thanksgiving and Halloween too!

This pumpkin craft is a great way to add pumpkins to your decor if you don’t want the mess of a carved pumpkin. It also puts leftover wine corks to use that have might otherwise ended up in the trash.

Keep reading to learn how to make these wine cork pumpkins!

Two DIY wine cork pumpkins against a stone wall.

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Supplies to make a wine cork pumpkin

All you need to make this project are the following supplies:

You’ll also need a hot glue gun and glue sticks, scissors, a paper plate and a pencil.

Materials for DIY wine cork pumpkin craft including wine corks, heavy card stock paper, glue sticks, raffia, wired jute, and orange acrylic craft paint.

How to make a wine cork pumpkin

My husband loves a particular wine that we buy at Trader Joe’s and I was lucky to have enough of the same sized cork to make the project. If you’re using wine corks from more than one brand of wine, you might need to trim your corks so that they are all the same length.

Dip the wine corks

  • Put some orange craft paint onto a paper plate.
  • Dip the end of your corks into the paint. 
  • If you’re going to display your pumpkins where you’ll be able to see the backs of the corks, make sure to dip both sides in the paint.
  • Allow the wine corks to dry before you move on to the next step.

A collage of two photos of one of the steps of making a pumpkin wine cork craft. The first photo shows dipping the cork ends into orange paint on a paper plate, and the right shows the corks laying out to dry.

Glue the corks into a pumpkin shape

Note: Hot glue guns, and heated glue can burn. Please use extreme caution when using a hot glue gun. Learn to use your tool properly before you start any project.

  • When the corks are dry, use a glue gun to glue the corks in five rows, using the pattern below. 
  • For the first row, glue 6 of the corks together.
  • Then hot glue 7 corks on top of those to make the second row.
  • For the third row, glue 6 corks on top of the others.
  • Then, for the fourth row, glue 5 corks on top.
  • For the fifth row, glue 4 corks on the top of the others.

The outline of a pumpkin pattern for a fall wine cork craft.
Cut out the leaves

  • Load the heavy card stock paper that you’ll be using for the leaves into your printer. I used a green dotted and green plaid paper.
  • Print out the pumpkin leaf pattern here.
  • I cut mine about 2 inches in size, and made two leaves for the wine cork pumpkin.

A pattern for the leaf of a pumpkin cork craft project.

Make the other items in the pumpkin leaf topper

  • In addition to the two pumpkin leaves, you’ll also need another cork, a couple of pieces of raffia, and piece of wire rope.
  • Make the wire rope look like a curly piece of pumpkin vine by winding it around a pencil.
  • Cut a couple of pieces of raffia to tie around the cork.

Step by step photos of making the leaves and stems of a pumpkin wine cork craft.

Attach the pumpkin leaf topper

  • Hot glue the two leaves on the top row of the pumpkin.
  • Glue the cork on top of the leaves.
  • Position the wire rope around the cork and tack it in place the hot glue.
  • Finish the pumpkin by tying the pieces of raffia around the cork.

A close up photo of the leaves and stem of a pumpkin wine cork craft.

Tada! That’s all there is to it! The finished wine cork pumpkin is done and is cute as can be. I ended up using 34 wine corks for this pumpkin.A wine cork pumpkin craft made from 34 recycled corks and paper leaves.

I LOVE that I had a cork with leaves on the top. It makes the perfect stem!

Bonus mini wine cork pumpkin

After my project, I had some corks left over so I made a baby pumpkin too!

I just trimmed down the stem cork a bit and made two tear shapes for leaves in Thanksgiving themed scrapbook paper. So cute! This one only took 10 corks.

A mini wine cork pumpkin project with paper leaves and raffia sitting on a wooden tabletop.

Displaying the wine cork pumpkins

Just add some fall ribbon and silk autumn leaves and you have an easy to make fall vignette using your two pumpkins.

Two DIY wine cork pumpkins on a wooden surface with fall leaves and a plaid ribbon in front of them.

I love that this project is so quick to make. I had it all done in about two hours, including the drying time for the paint.

One wine cork pumpkin craft on a wooden tabletop with a text overlay that says DIY wine cork pumpkin above it.

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Admin note: This wine cork pumpkin craft first appeared on the blog in Sepetember of 2017. I have updated the post to add more detailed instructions, and a printable recipe card.

Yield: 1 wine cork pumpkin

Wine Cork Pumpkin - DIY Pumpkin Made from Wine Corks

DIY wine cork pumpkins
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Looking for a way to use all your leftover wine corks? Try making this DIY wine cork pumpkin craft!

It's perfect to display during the fall!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 25 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Difficulty Moderate
Estimated Cost $5

Materials

  • 34 wine corks
  • Orange craft paint
  • Heavy card stock paper
  • Wired twine
  • Raffia

Tools

  • Hot glue gun and glue sticks
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Paper plate

Instructions

How to make the pumpkins:

  1. Put some orange craft paint onto a paper plate.
  2. Dip the end of your corks into the paint. (If you’re going to display your pumpkins where you’ll be able to see the backs of the corks, make sure to dip both sides in the paint.)
  3. Allow the wine corks to dry.
  4. When the corks are dry, use a glue gun to glue the corks in five rows, using the following configuration:
  5. For the first row, glue 6 of the corks together.
  6. Then hot glue 7 corks on top of those to make the second row.
  7. For the third row, glue 6 corks on top of the others.
  8. Then, for the fourth row, glue 5 corks on top.
  9. For the fifth row, glue 4 corks on the top of the others.

How to make the pumpkin leaf topper:

  1. Load the heavy card stock paper that you’ll be using for the leaves into your printer. I used a green dotted and green plaid paper.
  2. Print out the pumpkin leaf pattern from this link, or by using the print button on this card.
  3. I cut mine about 2 inches in size, and made two leaves for the wine cork pumpkin.
  4. In addition to the two pumpkin leaves, you’ll also need another cork, a couple of pieces of raffia, and piece of wire rope.
  5. Make the wire rope look like a curly piece of pumpkin vine by winding it around a pencil.
  6. Cut a couple of pieces of raffia to tie around the cork.
  7. Hot glue the two leaves on the top row of the pumpkin.
  8. Glue the cork on top of the leaves.
  9. Position the wire rope around the cork and tack it in place the hot glue.
  10. Finish the pumpkin by tying the pieces of raffia around the cork.

Bonus: Mini pumpkin

When I finished this project, I ended up having extra wine corks left over so I made a mini pumpkin to accompany the main pumpkin.

  1. For the smaller pumpkin follow all the same instructions as the main pumpkin, except for the layering and the cork stem.
  2. The small pumpkin uses 10 corks arranged in three layers (3 on the bottom, 4 in the middle and 3 on the top).
  3. When you're making the cork for the stem, trim it down a little so it looks appropriately sized for the smaller pumpkin.
  4. Other than that, you can follow all the instructions above!

Notes

Pattern for the leaf

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Debra Konopka

Friday 13th of May 2022

Hi there. I have been collecting/saving my wine corks for years. I would love to make some of the projects I have seen. Do you know of any books for sale that offer pictures and instructions for all the cork crafts?

Carol

Saturday 14th of May 2022

Amazon has a few for sale. (affiliate link)

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