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Halloween Pumpkins - Painting and Decoupage
Have lots of fun with your under 3”

Painting Halloween Pumpkins! Even little ones love this one.

• Pumpkins
• Tempera “Poster Paints” or acrylic paints
• Brushes
• Yoghurt containers
• Newspaper
• Masking tape for shapes
• Pencil or thin marker pen.

 

Cover a table with newspaper (tape it down with masking tape so it stays covered).

Set out liquid tempera paints, paintbrushes and plastic yogurt containers filled with water for rinsing the brushes.

Let the kids paint goofy or creepy faces on the pumpkins.

Decoupage Pumpkins for Halloween

This simple craft is a great activity for a group: and even the littlest hands can help tear the paper into small pieces.

• Real or artificial pumpkin
• Different colored thick tissue paper or other bright wrapping paper
• Paintbrushes
• Mod Podge or watered-down white glue

Gather paper, several paintbrushes, and a container of Mod Podge or watered-down white glue.

Working on a protected surface, simply tear the paper into squares and paste them in place. Overlap the different colours.

You can even cut out shapes from our free downloadable templates and stick bats and cats and other black shapes on it!

A topcoat of Mod Podge gives a good durable finish.

Bat-o'-Lanterns

Stage a spooky scene by assembling a colony of these winged creatures made from miniature pumpkins and craft foam.

• Black acrylic paint
• Ornamental (miniature) pumpkins (even small pattipan pumpkins will do).
• Black and white craft foam
• Hole punch
• Glue dots
• Black duct tape
• Toothpicks
• Wooden skewers

Cover your work surface with a drop cloth or newspaper, then paint the pumpkins. Allow them to dry completely.

For each bat, snip two identical eyes from the white craft foam and use the hole punch to make pupils. Adhere the eyes to the pumpkin with glue dots.

Cut matching pairs of ears and wings from the black craft foam (our wings are about 6 inches long). Attach the ears by taping a toothpick to the back of each one, leaving about 1K inches of the toothpick exposed, then inserting it into the top of the pumpkin.

Finally, tape a skewer to the back of each wing, leaving a 2-inch point exposed, and push it in place.

See our free downloadable templates for more ideas.