Bundt Pan Pumpkins Upcycle

Transform bundt pans into adorable pumpkins for fall or Halloween!

Sometimes I buy things at Goodwill for no reason at all.  These mini bundt cake pans that I got for .50 a piece are an example.  

I have no idea why I brought them home with me.  I don’t really bake (unless you consider making Tollhouse cookies from the pre-made dough tube to be baking. LOL.)  

So these little bundt pans sat in my basement until I got the idea to transform them into pumpkins for some fall decor in my kitchen!  

Do they look like pumpkins to you?  I think they do, but my son says no.  I think he’s thinking too literally.  Four year olds.  

Supplies Needed to Make Bundt Pan Pumpkins

Here’s what I used to upcycle these bundt pans into decorative pumpkins! Feel free to supplement with things you already have on hand. Also, some of these are affiliate links, and you can learn more about that in my disclosure policy.

• Mini bundt cake pans (look for them at the thrift store! But if you really need them, you can buy them at that link)
• Orange multi-surface craft paint
• Ivory multi-surface craft paint
• Chip brush
• Decorative scrapbook paper (in colors of your choice to serve as pumpkin backdrop)
• Decorative scrapbook paper in green shades (to serve as the leaves of your pumpkin)
• Double sided tape
• Thin cork
• Raffia
• High heat hot glue and glue gun
• Picture frames

How to Make Bundt Cake Pan Pumpkins

First you have to transform those mini bundt cake pans with some paint!  

Get out your brush and mix up some orange shades for your pumpkins.  Paint and let them dry.  

Cut decorative scrapbook paper to the size of the opening of your picture frames.  Tape the scrapbook paper onto the frame backing and put the frames back together (minus the glass).  

Hot glue the bundt cake pans onto the scrapbook paper in the frames.

Cut a strip of the thin cork and glue it into a spiral.  Glue it to the scrapbook paper at the top of the bundt cake pan.  

Tie some raffia in a knot and hot glue that to the scrapbook paper and cork pumpkin stem.  

Cut some leaves out of green scrapbook paper and hot glue those to the raffia, cork stem, and/or bundt cake pan.  

And then your bundt pan pumpkins are finished!  

So cute, right?!?  

I think this was a perfect use for some of my mini bundt cake pans!  And I think my son is wrong.  These TOTALLY look like pumpkins.  DUH, little man.

I popped these babies in my kitchen for a little touch of fall – kitchen style!  

I have a few more of these little bundt cake pans left over, so if you have other ideas of what I could make them into, let me know!  

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-Bre