Kids of all ages will love making this cardboard pumpkin craft! It’s time to raid the recycling bin to make a crafty Cereal Box Pumpkin! This fine-motor fall craft is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers because they get to paint, learn about shapes, twist pipe cleaners, glue, and cut!

This fine-motor craft, Cereal Box Pumpkin, is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers because they get to paint, glue, cut, and more! — Let’s make a pumpkin out of a cereal box!

Easy Cardboard Pumpkin Craft

The thing I love most about this craft is how simple and inexpensive it is. The pumpkins look cute in a child’s bedroom or sitting outside on a porch. Kids can make all sorts of crazy pumpkin faces! It’s perfect for home or school.

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Supplies Needed To Make This Awesome Cardboard Pumpkin Craft

Empty cereal box
Orange paint
Paintbrush
Green pipe cleaners
Toilet paper roll
White school glue
Black construction paper
Scissors

How To Make This Super Fun Halloween Cardboard Pumpkin Craft

Step 1

After gathering supplies, invite children to paint the cereal box orange. We used several coats of acrylic paint, as the ink on the cereal box made the paint bead up in some spots.

Step 2

While the paint is drying, invite children to cut shapes for their pumpkin’s face with scissors. Tracing household objects makes this task easy and fun! Challenge kids to find triangles, circles, and something unusual to trace for their pumpkin’s mouth.

Step 3

Glue the toilet paper roll to the top of the cereal box.

Step 4

Next, kids can glue their shapes to the pumpkin’s face.

Step 5

Use a small piece of tape to attach a twisted pipe cleaner to the top of the cereal box as a vine. Kids may also tape their vine to the stem of their pumpkin. When all of the glue is dry, proudly display the pumpkin!

TIP: Show kids how to twist their pipe cleaner around a wooden spoon, then gently slide it off! Now they have a twisted pumpkin vine!

Picture Steps to Make a Cereal Box Pumpkin

Cereal Box Pumpkin Craft

This cardboard pumpkin craft is so cute! Plus it's easy to make with minimal craft supplies and of course an empty cereal box. Kids of all ages will be able to make this jack-o-lantern craft that can sit in their room! Perfect craft for Halloween.

Materials

Empty cereal box
Orange paint
Paintbrush
Green pipe cleaners
Toilet paper roll
White school glue
Black construction paper
Scissors

Instructions

Paint the cereal box orange. Use several layers of paint to cover the writing and images on the cereal box.
While the paint is drying, trace a jack-o-lantern face onto the black construction paper.
Use scissors to cut out the face. The eyes, nose, and mouth...which can be a traditional jack o lantern mouth or even a plain smiley face.
Glue the toilet paper roll on top of the cardboard box.
Next, glue on the jack o lanterns face.
Use a piece of tape to attach a twisted green pipe cleaner to the top of the box to look like a pumpkin vine.

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