This is one of my favorite table centerpieces during the fall, and for the Thanksgiving Table. It is terribly easy to make, as long as you have pumpkins, flowers, and a little of that green floral foam. Where we live in Connecticut, everyone stops selling pumpkins right after Halloween. I think the stores literally ship off their pumpkin supplies. So, knowing this in advance, I stock up on pumpkins, for these floral arrangements. If you keep the pumpkins outside, they will last at least a month, in my experience.
I like to use the smaller sugar pumpkins for arrangements that will go on the table (the finished arrangement will be low, so they do not obstruct your guests from seeing and talking to each other). You will want to cut out a fairly wide round opening at the top of the pumpkin, like you can see I did in the picture below. I scooped out everything, and then with a regular metal (eating) spoon, I scrapped the sides of the interior. When done, the interior of the pumpkin should be quite hard (you will remove most of the soft flesh layer).
I found that my sugar pumpkins did not leak water, so I simply put a piece of the green floral foam directly into the pumpkin. If you would like to play it safe, you could first put a plastic container into the pumpkin (plastic food container, or yogurt container cut in half). Before putting the green foam into pumpkin, soak it in cold water, so that it becomes completely saturated with water. Cut a piece that will fit snug into the pumpkin, push it into the pumpkin, and add water before you begin to arrange the flowers. I then cut the flowers to height, and arranged the flowers (by sticking them into the green foam).
In the arrangment here, I used red roses, sunflowers, green leaves, and berries.
Love this idea! Thanks for sharing.
Love it! I went searching online for something like this b/c I thought it could be a pretty centerpiece for my fall wedding. Thank you! This is one of the prettiest I’ve found!