How to Decorate for Halloween With Artificial Pumpkins

One thing you can do with fake pumpkins? Paint them.

Though most people go the traditional route of buying pumpkins at pumpkin patches and carving them at home, you can do a lot with artificial pumpkins from arts and crafts stores. The great thing about artificial pumpkins is their diversity. With many shapes, sizes and colors, there are pumpkins that can be used for a variety of decorating needs. So, clear off a few spaces for Halloween, Thanksgiving and fall-related decorations, and fill your home with one of the season's most popular accessories.

Things You'll Need

• Artificial pumpkins
• Carving knife
• Containers

Instructions

1. Go to your local arts and crafts store to pick up some fake pumpkins. Buy one that you can carve with either a message, a spooky face or a haunted scene. The good thing about carving fake pumpkins is that they're easier to maneuver, carve and clean up than the real thing. You can allow your children to design their most creative pumpkin-carvings on these fake pumpkins. You can also paint faces on your pumpkin if you don't want to carve them.

2. Buy a few packages of plastic pumpkins and squashes. Places these in glass containers that you can display on tables or shelves. You can also add some straw, leaves, pinecones or other materials to the containers.

3. Buy pumpkins that are made out of different materials such as branch or birch. You can buy a few and arrange them around your dinner table as a centerpiece. You can drape a few large leaves or twigs around the display as well.

4. Create a cornucopia with small white and orange pumpkins.

5. Buy an artificial flower arrangement that has a fake pumpkin as its base.

6. Find a store in your area where you can buy a variety of hand-painted, wind-blown glass pumpkins. Place one in your guest bathroom, home office or hallway.

7. Visit a home store or candle shop and pick up a fall-scented candle within a ceramic pumpkin. Display it in your living room and light it on holidays or during get-togethers.

8. Create a dessert that displays a fake cemetery scene. Use chocolate pudding as the base, crumbled Oreo cookies as the dirt, Milano cookies as tombstones and candy pumpkins as pumpkins.

Tips & Warnings

• One of the great things about fake pumpkins is that you can find a large variety of them at most arts and crafts stores. Go explore what they've got and then fashion your decorations once you've been able to browse the selection.

• In order to avoid monotony, buy pumpkins in different shapes, sizes and colors. You can use them for a variety of different projects, decorations and displays.

• Feel free to incorporate the pumpkins into other holiday decorations or to use leaves, twigs or other accessories to enhance your pumpkin displays.