How to Make Tiny Pumpkin Torchères

May 22, 2015
With a handful of garden stakes and some simple hardware, you can transform palm-size pumpkins into a bouquet of magical torchères in minutes!
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Step 1: Gather materials

To get ready for this project, gather miniature pumpkins, an apple corer, a grapefruit spoon, nails, washers, tea-light candles in metal cups (or battery-operated tea lights) and bamboo garden stakes.

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Step 2: Prep pumpkin

Snap the stem off each pumpkin. Using an apple corer, cut an opening the diameter of the tea light in the top of each pumpkin. 

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Step 3: Remove seeds

Scoop out the seeds and pulp with a grapefruit spoon.

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Step 4: Stabilize the light (part 1)

To stabilize the tea light, first remove the candle from the metal cup, then push a nail through a washer and the tea-light cup. 

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Step 4: stabilize the light (part 2)

To finish stabilizing the light, press the nail through the bottom of the pumpkin and another washer. 

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Step 5: Anchor pumpkin

Anchor the pumpkin by pushing the nail into the center of a bamboo stake, then place the candle back inside the cup.

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Step 6: Light the candles

Finish by standing your torchères in a bucket filled with sand or gravel. Light the candles and marvel at your glowing fall masterpiece!

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