Kid’s Halloween~ Painting Pumpkins
October 13, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Arts and Crafts, holidays
When my son was younger I always dreaded pumpkin carving night. It’s not my favorite thing to do, and I usually recruited my husband for the sharp knife part. My son always wanted to get in on the carving action, but we had to tell him to stand back, because the knife’s too sharp.
Then I discovered how much fun it is to paint pumpkins, and that’s what we’ve done every year since. You can paint faces on your pumpkins, or make a character with your pumpkin, just let your child use their imagination.
You’re not just stuck with paint either, there are several things you can use to decorate your pumpkin, including:
- Glitter, or glitter paint
- Paint markers
- Any permanent marker
- Stick on jewels
- Felt
- Clothing items and accessories
- Ribbon, seeds, and flowers
- Smaller pumpkins, or gourds
- Leaves
- Construction paper
- And of course paint
I love the gold and silver paints with jewels on pumpkins, it turns out fabulous. You can even use them for a table decoration.
The most important thing is to let your kids have fun with it and use their imagination. Painting pumpkins is much more hands on for kids than watching you carve their pumpkin.
The images I have here were from a local pumpkin show, and were all decorated by kids.
Images: (c) L Gerlach
I’m with you, I always dreaded pumpkin carving too. I love the way they look, but what a mess. These are really cute, I’ve seen quite a few painted pumpkins, but I think that green monster up there is the best! I recently saw how you can carve fake pumpkins too, very cool without the mess