Outdoor Pumpkin Topiary

By RYOBI Nation

SKILL
easy

Get your porch ready for trick or treaters this Halloween season with a modern Outdoor Pumpkin Topiary to fit your favorite Halloween decor aesthetic 🎃 🍬

Tools

  • 18V ONE+ HP Brushless Cordless Rotary Tool Kit
  • 18V ONE+ HP Brushless 1/2" Drill/Driver
  • 18V ONE+ Dual Temperature Glue Gun

Accessories

  • 12 PC. ALL PURPOSE FULL SIZE GLUE STICKS
  • 37 PC. ALL-PURPOSE KIT
  • 65 PC. DRILL AND IMPACT DRIVE SET

Materials

  • 1/4" Dowel
  • Dry Foam
  • Faux Moss
  • Faux Pumpkins
  • Halloween Decor
  • Large Plant Pot
  • Mini String Lights

Steps

STEP 1

Add a few layers of circular cut dry foam to an outdoor pot.

Placing foam in plant pot

STEP 2

Cut off the stems of the pumpkins on two of the faux pumpkins.

Tools

Rotary Tool
Cutting pumpkin stems off

STEP 3

Line up all of the pumpkins to determine where each will attach to each other. Use a spade bit to drill a hole in the bottom of each pumpkin.

Tools

Drill
Drilling holes into pumpkins

STEP 4

Mark where the bottom hole in each pumpkin will line up with the top. Drill a hole in two of the tops of the pumpkins without stems.

Tools

Drill
Drilling holes in pumpkins

STEP 5

Mark where the topiary will be placed in the pot. Apply a dot of hot glue and stick the dowel into the foam.

Tools

Glue Gun
Applying hot glue to foam

STEP 6

Thread mini string lights through a pumpkin. Place each pumpkin down onto the dowel, with the pumpkin with the stem on the very top.

Placing the pumpkin onto the dowel.

STEP 7

Apply moss and decor around the areas where the pumpkins connect and around the base where the foam is using hot glue.

Tools

Glue Gun
Apply faux moss and decor with hot glue