Today's post is also another installment of something I've been working on for a while; Operation Garage Cleanout! And I think this may be the easiest fall project you'll ever make.

What I'm pulling out of the garage to make over today is an old metal bucket that I found at the dump.

Upcycled Bucket Jack-O-Lantern

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I got this idea from Angie at Knick of Time. She made a Jack-O-Lantern Halloween Treat Bucket and I thought it was so cute!

After I saw hers, I remembered that I had a very similar old metal bucket out in my garage. I love the wooden handle.

I think mine is a little larger than Angie's and I thought it would make a cute fall planter! It definitely needed a good cleaning though... and then a coat (or three) of orange spray paint!

I painted the handle green.

Then I just free-handed a cute, smiling Jack-O-Lantern face on it.


I painted the face black and added some pretty yellow mums!

I added a couple of faux pumpkins for a cute vignette on my porch.

It's also reversible so I can turn it around to the plain side in early fall, when it's still too early for Jack-O-Lanterns to be making an appearance.

You could make this just as easily with an orange Home Depot bucket and a vinyl face cut out with a Cricut machine.

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