Pumpkin Surprise Balls!
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Once I heard of surprise balls, I knew I wanted to make one for Roxie! Plus, I thought pumpkins would be perfect for the Fall Inspire(d) – thus, Pumpkin Surprise Balls were born. You start with a bunch of tiny presents, and wrap and wrap them into a ball filled with fun! It would be a cute Halloween present, or table settings at Thanksgiving, or just because! Here’s the how-to:
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Supplies:
Orange & green streamers
Small bit of pipe cleaner
Tiny presents
Tape
Glue
Scissors
Paper (if adding a note)
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1. Find the best present to create the base of the ball (we went with Flarp).
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2. Start wrapping the orange streamers around it. Make sure it’s wrapped all the way around before you add in the next tiny present. Don’t rip the streamers – keep it in tact to make for more fun unwrapping!
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3. Try to plan out the way you add in the tiny presents so the pumpkin shape begins to take form.
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4. Keep adding presents…
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5. …until you’ve got them all added to the pumpkin.
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6. I happened to have this stamper that looked like it would make a great pumpkin stem! You don’t have to add this, though – you could make the stem with just a bit of pipe cleaner and green streamer.
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7. Attach a bit of green streamer to the green pipe cleaner on one side. Trim it up to look like a pumpkin leaf.
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8. I stuck the pipe cleaner into the stamper.
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9. Then wrapped the stamper to be part of the pumpkin.
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10. Continue to wrap the ball until it seems like the streamers are on tight and the pumpkin will hold together.
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11. Then add a bit of glue to the end of the streamer and tuck it under the bottom.
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12. Add a piece of tape to keep it all secure.
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13. Wrap some green streamer around the stamper to look more like a stem.
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14. Then glue the end and hold until it stays in place on the stem.
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15. I added a note for Roxie (that’s supposed to look like a pumpkin leaf) and attached it to the second side of pipe cleaner, then wrapped the extra bit of green streamer to also look like a leaf. And it’s done! All that’s left is watching someone unwrap, and unwrap, and unwrap all the tiny surprises inside! I know Roxie had fun! Enjoy!
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