How to Draw Different Jack-o-Lanterns
There are many traditions that surround the holiday of Halloween such as wearing costumes, handing out candy, touring haunted houses and carving jack-o-lanterns. As much fun as it is to carve jack-o-lanterns, when it comes to young children you may find it difficult to find a role for them to play in the Halloween tradition because of how messy and dangerous it can be. If you are looking for a safe and less messy alternative to carving jack-o-lanterns for your young child, follow the steps below to show them how they can draw different jack-o-lanterns.
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Instructions
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Gather your paper and markers before you begin drawing.
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Draw a lima bean shape that takes up most of your paper, this will be the main body of your pumpkin.
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Add a stem in the dip at the top of your pumpkin. Simply draw a curved upside down triangle with your brown marker and color it in.
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Add a leaf with your green marker right next to the stem. To draw your leaf, draw a line that extends from the bottom of the stem and curves up and out, then draw another curved line from the end of the one you just drew that curves down and back to the base of the stem.
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Draw three triangles, two for the eyes and one for the nose on your pumpkin. Add pupils to your pumpkin's eyes by drawing a small curved line in the bottom corner of the eye triangles and color them in. Then draw a smile with as many teeth as you wish your smiling jack-o-lantern to have.
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Follow the same directions for eyes and a nose as in the previous step, and then draw a more circular mouth with fang teeth for a vampire jack-o-lantern.
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Draw squinting eyes by drawing slanted almost shapes on your pumpkin. Then draw a mouth filled with jagged sharp teeth to draw a demon jack-o-lantern.
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Add a few curved lines on the edges of your pumpkin to emphasize its curves. Then add some orange stripes that shadow those curve lines, or color your pumpkin in completely orange if you wish.
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