October 22nd, 2010

Painting or decoupaging pumpkins as decorations for Harvest or Halloween is loads of fun and also an alternative to carving them. Have lots of fun with your under 5” by trying out these “no sharp objects” ideas!

Painting  Pumpkins!

What you need:

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

What to do:

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.

What you need:

• Real or artificial pumpkin
• Different colored thick tissue paper or other bright wrapping paper
• Paintbrushes

• Mod Podge or watered-down white glue

What to do:

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.

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Tags: Halloween Pumpkins, harvest decorations

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