DIY Fortnite Llama Unicorn Pumpkin

Has your house been invaded by Fortnite as well?  It has with ours, especially on the weekends.  Instead of playing Fortnite the video game this weekend, we crafted Fortnite.  Allow me to introduce our DIY Fortnite Llama Unicorn Pumpkin to you.  This genius idea belongs to our middle child, Mason.  He thought up this idea all on his own.

First, let me go ahead & admit the major mistake we made.  We should have used a Faux pumpkin.  I do not know what I was thinking.  Real pumpkins hold moisture, and you’ll find the paint will easily come off when crafting with real pumpkins.  Other than that – the supplies and the craft part itself comes together quickly.  In fact, the pumpkin and everything you see here came from Walmart.

Another fun perk about this DIY Fortnite Llama Unicorn Pumpkin is that it can be for either a girl or a boy.

Here’s the supplies you’ll need:

• pumpkin – use a faux one
• craft paper – purple, blue & hot pink
• turquoise paint (we decided not to use the white paint pictured)
• sponge paint brushes
• unicorn head band – disassembled (found in party section)
• ear head band – it was originally bunny ears – disassembled (found in the Halloween section)
• screwer sticks – to mount the ears & the horn
• googly eyes
• brown ribbon
• 2 gold rings for the halter
• scissors
• sharpie – for the nose
• hot glue gun & glue sticks

Paint your pumpkin.  Again – get a faux pumpkin – trust me on this!
Apply 2 coats.
You’ll also need to paint the ears (unless you make the ears with cardstock)
Allow to dry overnite.

For the “mane” and the trim around the pumpkin – use your scissors & cut freely.  I just eyed it, but you can always use a paper cutter.  For the photo above, I folded some cardstock paper in half, and cut some fringe.

Same goes for the fringe around the lower part of the pumpkin (lower photo).  Just smaller cuts and a little wider.  I cut & glued 6 rows of trim on the bottom portion of the pumpkin.

You’ll need to hot glue the “mane” in parts.  I believe there’s 5 separate sections of the mane.  The curve of the pumpkin makes it difficult to glue, so we decided to cut it in parts and layer in the mane.  Once we did the first 2, we filled in and went from there.

For the “halter” we used the brown ribbon and hot glued the gold rings to the ribbon.  It’s a little tricky, and it’s best if you have 2 people working together to glue and hold the ribbon.

The finish product – well, it just makes me smile.  All 3 of my kids love it.  We actually made this for a coin drive for our school.  My son, Mason will be presenting it this week for the fundraiser.

Isn’t it cute & colorful???  I just love it.

Here’s what the “real” Fortnite Llama Unicorn looks like.  I guess they can add the “unicorn” part in the skins or whatever.  Can you tell I don’t know what I’m talking about???  LOL

One last time, here’s what our DIY Fortnite Llama Unicorn Pumpkin:

Here’s some more Halloween posts you may like:

Our Halloween Home Tour.  C’mon in & see our home decorated for Halloween.

You’ll love this recipe for Pumpkin Cookie Pizza.  It’s perfect for a Halloween party.