Here's another idea that our LQS decorated with last year ....
Take roll of toilet paper, add some leftover quilt batting for padding to make it roundish.
Set on top of a FQ (any orange or rust fabric) and pull FQ up and into the hole of the toilet paper role. Presto!!! instant pumpkin .... do an assortment of different FQs and set together in a display or tucked in here and there, as they had done at the store.
Could also do the same with small balls of cotton crochet cotton for apples!