If you’re staring at an orange canvas and not sure how to decorate it, here are some fun ideas!
- Pick different colors to paint all over the pumpkin. For added fun, you could paint the pumpkins one solid color and then splatter paint with different colors for a cool effect! This should be done outside because it can get messy.
- Use masking or painter’s tape to make a design on the pumpkin like a spiderweb or silly face. Then paint over the area. Once the paint dries, peel off the tape and see what you created!
- Add stickers! Little ones love putting stickers on everything, so why not on pumpkins? Take it a step further by painting over the stickers and then removing them to reveal fun patterns.
- Press molding dough onto pumpkins to create unique 3D designs.
- Glue construction paper or felt onto pumpkins to make animals or characters from your favorite books.
- Add candy corn all over the pumpkin using a hot glue gun — ask your child what they think it looks like. Maybe a pufferfish or porcupine?
- Wrap pumpkins in gauze for a mummy-inspired look!
- Gather natural materials like sticks and leaves to attach to your pumpkins.
- Try melting crayons on top of pumpkins.
- Add googly eyes, beads or sticky gems.
