How to Make No Knit Yarn Pumpkins

Learn how to make no knit yarn pumpkins in 4 easy steps. If you love chunky yarn, but don’t knit or crochet these yarn pumpkins are for you! Use beautiful chunky yarn to make adorable pumpkins in a few minutes! No knit yarn pumpkins are easy enough for beginners but still turn out adorable! No knit, no sew yarn pumpkins!

I love fall! The colors, smells and feels all communicate warmth to me. But I can’t believe it is the end of September already, so today I have a no knit, no sew yarn pumpkin craft for you! Because if you have been to my site before you know I love making pumpkins, especially cozy little pumpkins from socks, sweaters and velvet ones.

This pumpkin craft is super EASY! In a challenging year I figured a quick win for a craft project couldn’t hurt, right?

Inspiration for No Knit Yarn Pumpkins

The inspiration for this project came as I was wandering around Hobby Lobby. I spotted some beautiful chunky yarn. It was so pretty it ALMOST made me want to start knitting something with it (currently I don’t knit). But I put the yarn in my cart anyway thinking there had to be something I could do with it.

Well on my next errand stop that day inspiration struck! I randomly spotted a hair donut at the Dollar Tree. And all of a sudden visions of no knit yarn pumpkins danced in my head! So I grabbed a few hair donuts and headed home.

And after making one of these no knit yarn pumpkins I realized this would also be a fun craft to do with kids. In fact, my 4-year old daughter Emmie made these pumpkins with my help. I helped her with the hot glue gun and the embellishments. Otherwise she wanted to do it all by herself. And she did it!

So let’s get started on these no-knit yarn pumpkins!!

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Here’s the supplies needed for no- knit yarn pumpkins:

• Free written instructions
• 90″ of chunky yarn
• hair donuts
• 2 rubber bands
• hot glue and gluesticks
• pumpkin stem (I used a little branch)
• covered wire for curly cues
• felt for leaf

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Short on time?

If you would like to make these pumpkins but don’t have extra time to gather all the supplies and make an extra trip to the craft store. I made a limited number of kits this year. You can just purchase a complete kit in our shop and make your own set of three hair donut pumpkins.

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Here’s a video on how to make no- knit yarn pumpkins:

Here’s a step- by- step tutorial on how to make no-knit yarn pumpkin:

Step 1: Prepare your yarn for your pumpkin:

Start by cutting off your yarn. Measure out and cut a 90-95″ or 2.5′ length of chunky yarn.

Tie off each end with a rubber band to prevent the yarn from unraveling.

Step 2: Wrap yarn around the hair donut

Now starting with one end. Hot glue it on the underside of the hair donut.

Continue wrapping the yarn around the hair donut. Pushing the yarn close together as you go.

As you go pull the yarn snug and try to maintain the same amount of snugness all around the donut.

Step 3: Hot glue the second end

When you do not have any more space to wrap around the pumpkin, cut off any extra yarn. Then hot glue the end to the underside of the pumpkin.

Tip: When you have finished wrapping your yarn, you may notice more of a gap than you would like. You can just cut off an extra piece of yarn and glue it in place.

Step 4: Add stem, leaf and curly cues

Now just insert the pumpkin stem into the center of the pumpkin. You can hot glue it in place.

Next cut out a leaf from the felt. Hot glue it around the stem.

To make the curly cues wrap the paper covered wire around a pencil. Hot glue the curly cue around the pumpkin stem.

And that’s it! Your easy peasy no knit yarn pumpkin. Really can be made in a matter of minutes, which is probably all you have available these days anyways.

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Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this post. And I love seeing the creations you come up with. Please email me at: elizabeth@awellpurposedwoman.com if you give this craft a try!

Take care and I truly hope you have a blessed fall!

God Bless,

P.S. If you would like to check out some easy ready to make pumpkin kits be sure to check out our shop!