Cornucopia Centerpiece
Craft Box Girls
Thanksgiving is almost here, and I have the perfect centerpiece craft that you can keep for years to come! Grab the Astrodesigns® 12" x 12" Cardstock Starter Pack, scissors, a pencil glue and a ruler and you are ready to start crafting. I love the Astrodesigns® Cardstock Starter Pack because it gives you an array of colors which is perfect for a bountiful cornucopia centerpiece.
Materials:
- Astrodesigns® Cardstock Starter Pack
- Scissors
- Paper Glue & Hot Glue
- Pencil
- Ruler
Get started by determining what florals, foliage, vegetables, and fruits you want in your cornucopia. I decided on a pumpkin, apples, a pear, corn husks, sunflowers, vines, and leaves.
Directions for 3D Pumpkin & Fruit:
1. Draw the initial shape of fruit or pumpkin. Cut that shape out. Trace and cut 5 more of the same shape.
2. Cut out a stem and leaves.
3. Fold each of the shapes from step one in half.
4. Start glueing each half together to create a round shape. About halfway through glue the leaves and stem to the top of the shape.
Directions for the Sunflower:
1. Cute a small circle out of brown cardstock. The circle should about the size of a quarter and does not have to be perfect.
2. Draw about 12-16 petals on a shade of yellow cardstock and cut out. The petals do not have to all be the same perfect shape. I like to free hand cut them.
3. Glue the petals around the brown circle from step one. Create a second layer by gluing them on top of the first layer in between to create dimensions.
4. Once you are happy with the number of petals cut a second brown circle and glue it on top of the petals in the center to hide the seams.
5. Fluff the petals by curling the ends up.
Directions for the Corn Husk:
1. Cut a rectangle that is about 4” x 5” out of yellow cardstock.
2. Using the pencil to draw wavey and straight lines horizontal and then vertical. This will look like the corn kernels.
3. Roll up the paper and glue into a tube.
4. Once the glue is dry twist the ends of the paper to create the corn cob.
5. Cut a corn husk leaf out of brown cardstock and glue to the side of corn cob and curl it back.
6. For the actual cornucopia cone take a full 12” x 12” piece of brown cardstock and roll in into a cone shape and glue. Trim the end so it is round.
7. I stuffed the inside of the cornucopia with some extra butcher paper, so I didn’t have to fill it with so many items, and it also served as a support to glue in the items.
8. Glue in your different fruits, vegetables, foliage, and flowers. As you glue everything in you can cut and add more leaves and vines to fill in as needed!
I love how this turned out and I even added an extra pumpkin next to it. You could make additional items to surround the cornucopia!
Happy Thanksgiving Friends!