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Pumpkin painting is a wonderful alternative to carving pumpkins. It is a perfect Halloween craft for little kids because it is easy and don’t require the use of a knife. Actually, it’s an enjoyable activity for anyone of any age. Pumpkins make such versatile canvases. There are different ways to paint a pumpkin.

Here are 5 pumpkin painting ideas:

1. Metallic paint
Metallic painted pumpkins are simply elegant and beautiful. Spray your pumpkins in different metallic colors such as gold, silver, copper and bronze. Add some glitter to make it sparkle. Don’t forget wired bows to enhance elegance. Group the different colored pumpkins together to create a gorgeous display.

2. Black paint
Spraying a pumpkin completely black may not sound interesting at all. On the contrary. Spray pumpkin with a black chalkboard spray, then use a chalk to draw patterns against the black background. You’ll end up with a beautiful decorated pumpkin. You can even write messages on it, like a chalkboard.

3. Use a stencil to create patterns
Place a stencil on your pumpkin and lightly spray paint over it. Stencils can be bought at the store or homemade. It is a convenient tool to help you paint images such as bats, cats and ghosts onto your pumpkin. You can use paper doilies to create lacelike patterns. To create masked images, use die cuts or even pressed leaves.

4. Glow-in-the-dark paint
Your painted pumpkins may be beautiful but when night falls, you won’t be able to see them. This is where they lose out to carved pumpkins. But all is not lost. You can still make them visible at night with glow-in-the-dark paint. You don’t have to use glow-in-the-dark paint for the entire design, you can use it to highlight certain parts.

5. Painting Faces
Painting pumpkin faces is so much fun. You can paint spooky faces that are scary or goofy faces that are sure to delight and make people smile. Some have even painted celebrity faces. Dress up your pumpkin with hats, rafia, tinsel and other embellishments.

Don’t let this fall pass without you trying your hand at pumpkin painting. Get down to the pumpkin farm and get yourself some nice pumpkins. Let your creative juice start flowing. Showcase your painted pumpkins around your house and soon the compliments will start rolling in. It might even turn out to be a money making opportunity when people offer to pay for your work.

There’s an easy way for you to create stunning pumpkin designs that you can finish in around 1 hour. “Pumpkin Painting, Anyone Can Do It, Really!” is a guide with pumpkin painting ideas, instructions and step-by-step photos. If you are not too creative and are a beginner at pumpkin painting, this is what you need. Click here to read more about easy pumpkin painting for Halloween.

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Do you cringe every time you think of all that candy your kids will be ingesting this Halloween? If you’re a parent who works hard to get your kids to eat healthy, Halloween can be a nightmare. But you know what? You can actually make Halloween healthy for your kids (and other people’s kids). You can opt for all natural and organic candy. These candies are free of trans fats, GMOs, corn syrup, gluten, artificial colors and flavors.

Check out this webpage for some fun, healthy Halloween treats. No, I’m not affiliated to them or being compensated in any way. They’ve even a free download called Green Halloween Party Guide. One of the ways they listed to be green this Halloween is to decorate your home with painted pumpkins.

Have a wonderful “Green” Halloween!

With each annual visit to the pumpkin patch, teachers, room mothers, scout troop leaders and parents alike often wonder how to make the most of the prize pumpkin that was chosen by a child. Forget the messy and dangerous ideas of carving. Pumpkin Painting is the perfect solution to a creative dilemma!

Painting silly, goofy or scary faces or other designs can be a fun, yet relatively simple activity for children and adults. Preschool age children can even participate in creating their own designs for their pumpkins. You certainly can’t say that about carving pumpkins!

The easiest design to paint on a pumpkin is a traditional jack-o-lantern face. But here are some other ideas for festive designs:
- silly or goofy faces
- favorite cartoon characters
- fall leaves
- scarecrow
- witch
- princess
- turkey
- spider
- ghosts
- cats
- goblin
Painting pumpkins is a very economical craft as most supplies are readily available (you probably already have some of these in your home):
- washable markers
- acrylic craft paints
- newspaper
- spray sealer
- accessories such as raffia, jewelry, hats, etc.
Before beginning, decide what design you are going to paint and trace that design onto a clean pumpkin. You can freehand the design or select one of the many designs in the ultimate e-guide for pumpkin painting, Easy Pumpkin Painting.
Once you or your child has painted their first pumpkin, chances are you’ll want to paint an entire pumpkin family to proudly display at your home.

Pumpkin Painting is an annual family tradition at our house. We hope it will be at yours as well.

Easy Pumpkin Painting is a guide that contains step-by-step instructions and color photographs of exactly how to paint the cutest Halloween pumpkins. It also contains templates that you can use to paint your first pumpkin in about an hour! Easy Pumpkin Painting makes painting pumpkins, well, Easy!

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