Halloween Topiary

The other day when I was at Goodwill I came across these really cool plastic urns.  I automatically thought they were perfect for a topiary.

 

What you will need to make 2 of these:

 

2 planters or urns

Expandable spray foam

2 dowel rods

4 foam pumpkins

2 foam balls

Black paint

Orange paint

Plastic spider rings

Spanish moss

Hot glue

Black spray paint

 

 

For some reason I didn't get very many pictures of this project in progress but I will try to explain the best I can.

 

First what I did was paint orange and black stripes on the dowel rods.

Once that was dry I put the dowel rods in the urns and sprayed the expandable foam around them to hold them in place.  You might have to hold them until the foam sets up a little.

I let mine sit over night to make sure it was nice and set.

 

While that was setting I spray painted the foam balls black.  I used a 6 inch foam ball but you could really use any size you wanted.  The pumpkins are foam ones that I found at Dollar Tree.

 

 

Once all that was done, I had my wonderful Husband drill holes the same size as the dowel rod through the foam balls and pumpkins.

Stack them onto the dowel rods.

I had a hard time getting them to stay in place and not slip down so I just added a little hot glue to make them stop.

Once those were in place and the glue was dry, I started working on the spider rings.  I cut the ring part off of them and then started randomly gluing them to the black foam balls.  I ordered these from Amazon since had a gift card from using Swagbucks.  They turned out to be perfect.  I used all but 11 of them so keep that in mind when you buy some for your project.

 

 

After I was done with all of that, I put some Spanish Moss in the urn but candy corn would be cute too.

 

 

Cost of this project:

 

Urns were $4.68 for both

4 Pumpkins from the Dollar Tree $4

2 Foam Balls from Walmart $9.08

Spanish Moss from Dollar Tree $1

2 Dowel Rods from Menards $2.16

Spider Rings from Amazon $1.25 (used a $5 gift card from Swagbucks)

 

Black spray paint, orange and black acylic paint and expandable spray foam I already had on hand.