Are you tired of the same old Jack O’Lantern faces on your pumpkins? Here are a few idea’s to inspire this years carvings. Some you can even make without those sharp tools so your kids can help out too!
To kick off the pumpkins we have a baby pumpkin! How fitting for my household. This one is super easy. Find a soother, cut the rubber end off so you have a flat surface to hot glue gun to the pumpkin. You can now either draw with a permanent marker or paint, your eyes and a nose. Or you can cut out these features if you still want to have a glowing pumpkin. Tie a ribbon on the stem, and you have one super cute baby pumpkin!
If you don’t have any kids in the house though, you can still add pumpkins in a classy way. Simply use your monogram of choice and carve a letter in your pumpkin. You can use this same simple carving method to cut out your house number as well. Stack a couple pumpkins and your house will invite trick or treaters in the classiest of ways!
You wont need any tools to cut these pumpkins. Just some paint. The possibilities are endless with paint. Create some simple candy corn pumpkins by layering orange, yellow, and white paint. Try Some gold paint for a fun bright effect. Dress it up even more with some black patterns over the gold. But if you really want to have some fun think of your pumpkin as dressing up in costume. This orange M&M is perfect, but see what you can come up with too!
And Last today we have a Mummy Pumpkin. You will need, Cheese cloth, scissors, fabric stiffener,an artificial pumpkin, glue and hot glue gun, 1 inch googly eyes, optional glow in the dark paint. Cut your cheesecloth into 4x 12 inch strips, fold strips in half length wise. Apply fabric stiffener, according to directions. Apply strips to pumpkin Leaving top and bottom uncovered. Let dry. Hot glue eyes to pumpkin. Cut additional four 4×6 strips of cheesecloth. Apply fabric stiffener. Cover each eye diagonally to let eye peek out. Let dry. At this point you can be done but if you want a glowing pumpkin still, apply your glow in the dark paint and let dry.
I hope this inspires you to carve pumpkins this year. Its always been a favorite tradition of mine. And with this many idea’s, you dont even need to get messy and carve. Halloween is all about pumpkins so make some today!