How to Display Dried Corn Stalks

Tie cornstalks around the bottom posts on porch steps or around light poles in your yard. Gather three or four clumps (clumps equal four or five cornstalks) and spread them around the post or light pole so it doesn’t show. Knot twine firmly around the stalks in the middle, and near the top.

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Create corn shocks in your yard to give it a “farmland” look. Sharpen one end of an old broomstick or yardstick into a point and drive it into the ground where you want your corn shock. Arrange clumps of corn stalks around the stick so that it doesn’t show and tie them in place with twine as in step 1.

Form dried cornstalks into wreaths by soaking them in room temperature water for about an hour. Bend a clump of stalks into a circle and bind the ends together with twine. Use more twine to string tiny ears of Indian corn, acorns, leaves and very small gourds to the wreath when it dries. Hang this on your door.

Place large and small pumpkins and gourds at the bases of your corn shocks, light poles and porch posts. Set pumpkins on top of little hay bales and arrange the gourds around them.

Stick autumn leaves in the tops of your shocks along with small Indian corn ears. Set gourds along the walls of your porch and put hay bales on either side of your door. You could also place little scarecrows near your corn shocks and next to the pumpkins