Whether you are celebrating Halloween, harvest or the coming of autumn, now is the time to do some pumpkin decorating with your children. We didn’t want to make anything too scary but we did want lots of hands-on, creative fun. We bought some small pumpkins, so everyone could have one each, and set up a decorating station with lots of interesting materials the kids could use to customise their pumpkins.
Decorating pumpkins with children: fun and funky ideas
Our pumpkin decorating station included: acrylic paint, glitter, stick on gemstones, drawing pins and cup hooks
We covered up the children and the table and then let them go for it. I love this picture of L in action: go, glitter, go!
Sparkles, drawing pins and cup hooks create a fun, rather than scary, pumpkin face.
Who says less is more? Sometimes more is more.
Decorating pumpkins: more ideas to try
For more ideas on pumpkin decorating with children come over to Ready for Ten where I’m sharing ideas on adding some extra sparkle and bling to your pumpkins, with lots more links including satsuma and pepper Jack-o’-lanterns, a delicious pumpkin muffin recipe and a great way to turn your left-over pumpkin into a science experiment.
And check out the whole family of mummy pumpkins over at hands on as we grow and the gorgeous drip art pumpkins at The Imagination Tree.
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These look great! Love the hooks. And think my kids are definately fans of more is more too
Love the ideas i going to have to try this with my daughter
These are great – very ‘bling’
Love how your pumpkins turned out! We already carved ours, but I will have to keep this in mind for next year!
That’s a great set up! We may have to incorporate some of those ideas.
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Oooh your pumpkins turned out great!! And love that tray will all your crafty bits on – like a crafter’s Aladdin’s cave!!!
Thanks as always for linking to Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
The hooks are a nice touch – love how your pumpkins turned out!
They are fab Cathy, really fantastic
Such fancy pumpkins! The kids must have had a blast!
wow, i just pinned this to make sure i do not forget those fancy hooks! that pumpkin looks ready to party on Halloween!
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Great crazy pumpkins – so creative!
Love for you to link up to our Halloween craft linkup – http://momstown-artsandcrafts.momstown.ca/node/431
too cute! They look great. I would love for you to link up at Living Life Intentionally’s Linky party – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties ~Beth
Oh my goodness! What fun!! Very creative!
Kerri
That is super fun- it made me giggle
Thank you for sharing your ideas with us on The Sunday Showcase
Always great to have you there
So pretty! Anything with sparkle is a hit in our house!
That is the sparkliest, prettiest pumpkin ever! Look like it’s getting ready for Cinderella’s Ball!
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