That’s why I felt so excited when I started seeing painted pumpkin projects around the web lately – particularly, melted crayon pumpkins from Hello, Wonderful! and marbled pumpkin from Color Made Happy. I thought that maybe we could also decorate a pumpkin by painting?
How to Paint Pumpkins for Halloween!
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This is a tutorial on how to paint pumpkins! It’s fairly easy, and unlike carving, little kids can do this, too! Mine is one the left, and my baby sisters is on the right. Cute, right? Sorry it took so long to post, but who says you can’t do this after Halloween, too? So thank you for viewing, hope you enjoy, and Happy Halloween!
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Step 1: Supplies You Will Need
You will need acrylic paint (I got this set from Amazon.com), on a foam plate, one medium and one small paintbrush, and of course one pumpkin! (I got this cute little pie pumpkin from HEB)
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Step 2: Paint the Pumpkin
I painted a sweet little house and some grass so far, but you can paint what you want. I also painted Star Butterfly on my other pumpkin. My little sister painted hers with a scary face.
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20 Easy Painted Pumpkin DIYs for a Fun and Safe Halloween
It is that time of the year again when we are starting to think about the many ways in which we can decorate our home for the festivities ahead. It all starts with Halloween, as always and even If 2020 has been one long, scary ride for everyone, we still want to celebrate it in style. Halloween is a bit different this year with many of us still choosing to remain home, avoid large social gatherings and turning to virtual meets to interact with friends and family. The general advice from experts is to ensure that kids stay home and avoid trick-or-treat all together. But that still leaves plenty of room for decorating your home this Halloween in a safe and spooky fashion!
Halloween decorating does not come simpler than painted pumpkins and once you flip through the many ideas in here, you will fall in love with the almost instantly. Best painted pumpkin DIYs this year bring with them a blend of ideas that are colorful, eclectic and at times just plain crazy as well. From those that work well beyond Halloween to ones that are just perfect for decorating your porch, this is a collection that has it all. It is time for a trendy pumpkin display –
Halloween-Themed Painted Pumpkins
Once you start creating Halloween-themed painted pumpkins, you will start noticing hoe addictive it can be! In fact, there are so many simple designs and ideas to try out that you might soon be heading to your local store more than once to get a few more pumpkins. The easiest starting point is to use Halloween stencils along with paint to bring different motifs and patterns without much work. These pumpkins can be used on the porch, on the stairway or even on the fireplace mantle to create a wonderful focal point that you just cannot miss.
Bright and Beautiful Ideas
One of the things that we have noticed over the last few years is how popular pumpkins with a painted message that just says ‘boo!’ are. But the colors you choose for these fun painted pumpkins can determine the style of the room that they adorn. Gold paint-dipped pumpkins with the letters can seem chic while those in black and white are perfect for a spookier theme. You can even alter the message on the pumpkins with a change in the stencil while custom designs, more intricate Halloween-themed paintings and fall-inspired patterns take a bit more work.
Materials
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- pumpkin: real or artificial
- acrylic paints: my favourite acrylic paints are Golden or Liquitex heavy acrylics because they have a nice thick consistency and only require one layer on most surfaces, but they can be pricey, so I also have a selection of standard artist’s acrylics to use in our projects – in the end, it’s usually a mix of both on our palette
- sponge: I have recently got in a habit of using it with a clothespin, but before I just held it with my fingers and sponged away; the cellulose sponge is personal preference because I like how it feel better
- brushes: for adding details
Painting Pumpkins Tips & Tricks
Watch the video in this post for a step-by-step tutorial!
Overall, we followed our usual process of painting space with acrylics.
- use a lot of dark navy blue, intermittent with splashes of light blue, ultramarine, purple, fuchsia, and even a little of golden
- paint with a sponge instead of a brush to achieve that grainy effect that looks like myriads of stars far away
- add details like galaxies with a brush
- when done painting the background, dilute white acrylic with water and flick the brush against something else (like a plastic palette, a clothespin or a different brush), so that it splatters little white dots everywhere
Even Babies Can Do It!
Halfway through, my daughter came back from a walk with grandma and decided that she had to join the fun! She is not yet a year and a half, but thanks to watching me and her brother painting all the time, thinks that she should also be a prolific artist. So it’s the first project here on the blog made by Faye!
These are their finished pumpkins.
It was exciting to have almost the whole family participate. We need to add Jeffrey’s creation, but he’s the one good at carving, so he’s working on a spaceship.
