Things You'll Need:
- Acrylic Paint
- Pumpkin
- Template
- Knife
- Painters tape
- Contact Paper
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Step 1
HAUNTED HOUSE PUMPKIN
* Clean your pumpkin out
* Find a template of a haunted house online type in keywords: Halloween, coloring pages (http://holidays.kaboose.com/halloween-color.html)
* Cut out the haunted house with contact paper. You will want to make the contact paper into an outline.
* Apply the contact paper stencil you created to the pumpkin and fill in with black acrylic paint.
* Cut out windows on the haunted house
* Insert a candle
* BOOOOOOOOO!!!!! -
Step 2
POLKA DOTTED PUMPKIN
(You will not clean out your pumpkin for this)
* Apply polka dot stickers to your washed (and dried) pumpkin
* Paint your pumpkin the color you desire (you can spray paint)
* Let the painted pumpkin dry
* Remove your polka dot stickers
* You can fill in your polka dots with additional acrylic paint in different colors, or leave orange -
Step 3
GHOST PUMPKIN
* Hollow your pumpkin
* Spray or acrylic paint your pumpkin white
* Cut out the mouth and eyes, use circles
Comments
L1onherd said
on 10/17/2008 Great ideas! My son and I can use this!!!!
momofour said
on 10/16/2008 Cool ideas for Halloween! Thanks for sharing.
JasneJ said
on 10/2/2008 Great ideas.My favorite is the polka dots. I see glitter paint...
Ladybugblue said
on 10/2/2008 This is a great idea! We actually had a contest at work last year and it was so interesting seeing the winners! Thanks for the ideas!
Gardengates said
on 9/30/2008 Great idea. If I can paint on my pumpkins, then I can later remove the skin and cook 'em!