Halloween Crafts don’t have to be hard or time consuming! Make a Trick or Treat Pumpkins using your Cricut and come away with an adorable Halloween craft that is super easy!

Halloween is the perfect time to pull out your Cricut and get crafting! There are so many fun Halloween crafts that are so easy to make. And our Trick or Treat Pumpkin craft is no excepetion.

This craft is fairly inexpensive and would be easy enough to make with children or for a Halloween party.

What does the Cricut Easypress Mini do?

The Cricut Easypress Mini makes amazing heat-transfer results possible for all your sorts of shapes, objects and projects. Because of its well thought out and compact design it effortlessly curves with contours, gets between buttons, and squeeze into seams.

Can I use an iron instead of a mini press?

If you don’t have a mini press you can use a house hold iron. It is definitely possible to achieve the results you want as long as you use it correctly. However, I highly recommend getting a mini press if you can! I use mine all the time and the mini press is a lot easier to maneuver and use than the iron. If you think you will be crafting and using your Cricut a lot- it really would be worth it in the long run!

Tips for removing excess vinyl

You will want to weed out excessive vinyl. This means removing any excess vinyl from around your design that you do not want to be transferred to your final product.

To weed off the excess vinyl, you will need some kind of tool.

A Cricut hook, tweezer, a crafting knife or a straight pin are all great options.

You’ll want to make sure you have good lighting so you can see your cut lines properly. I always have to hold it up the light or window! Once you have your eye on the cut lines, use the weeding tool of your choice to gently lift up the edge of the negative space it pull it up off the paper.

How to make Trick or Treat Pumpkins

SVG File

To get the SVG file for this project, click download below:

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Here are the supplies you will need

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Velvet covered pumpkins (from Dollar Tree)
Black heat transfer vinyl found on Amazon / Cricut.com
SVG File
Mini press
Weeding Tools (Cricut.com / Amazon)
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Cricut Explore Air 2 (or similar cutting device) (Cricut.com / Amazon)

Instructions

Upload the cut file into Design Space and resize the words to fit on the pumpkins.
Flip the file or set the mat to mirror.
Cut the file on black heat transfer vinyl.
Weed out excess vinyl, then cut out each word. Place the word on the front of the pumpkin and use the Mini Press to press the vinyl onto the pumpkin.
Remove the stem from the top of the pumpkins that say “or” and “treat.” Use the hot glue gun to glue the pumpkins on top of each other.

Trick or Treat Pumpkins

Yield: 1

Active Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Estimated Cost: $10

Halloween Crafts don’t have to be hard or time consuming! Make a Trick or Treat Pumpkins using your Cricut and come away with an adorable Halloween craft that is super easy!

Materials

Velvet covered pumpkins (from Dollar Tree)
Black heat transfer vinyl
Cut file
Mini press
Hot glue gun

Tools

Mini press
Hot glue gun
Cricut Explore Air 2 or similar cutting device

Instructions

Upload the cut file into Design Space and resize the words to fit on the pumpkins.
Flip the file or set the mat to mirror.
Cut the file on black heat transfer vinyl.
Weed out excess vinyl, then cut out each word. Place the word on the front of the pumpkin and use the Mini Press to press the vinyl onto the pumpkin.
Remove the stem from the top of the pumpkins that say “or” and “treat.” Use the hot glue gun to glue the pumpkins on top of each other.

DIY Trick or Treat Pumpkins – Free SVG Files

What does the Cricut Easypress Mini do?

Can I use an iron instead of a mini press?

Tips for removing excess vinyl