Pumpkin Craft

Are you looking for a fun, mess free pumpkin craft to do with your kids? I have just the thing. No cutting, no digging and scooping the innards of the pumpkin.

I came across these great decals from Martha Stewart when wandering around JoAnn’s with Conor and couldn’t resist them:

They were only $3.99 and transfer on like kids tattoos. Easy, peasy lemon squeezey. I grabbed them still not sure what I wanted to do with them. I didn’t know how well they would stand up outside so thought an inside craft may be fun.

On another trip to Jo Ann’s, I grabbed these pumpkins:

They come in the usual orange, but I thought white would look better on the fireplace with the black of the brick and the white surround. These are called Funkins – foam pumpkins that you can carve. They retail at $24.99 but Jo Ann’s was having a 40% off sale on them. I think they look quite realistic for something fake. Bonus with using something artificial is I can put it up the attic and pull it out next year, can’t really do that with a real pumpkin!

So, I had the boys help me pick out the faces that they liked the best or thought were the scariest / funniest. Within, 10 minutes we had a great little Halloween decoration for our living room. What do you think?

One funny and one scary Jac-o-Latern

In my wanders around the internet I’ve found some other fun ideas you may want to try at home. If you want something a little less traditional there are these funky decoupaged pumpkins. They seem easy and look oh so pretty:

From: http://fun.kyti.me/

While flicking through Better Homes and Gardens, I also came across these black and white newsprint pumpkins and thought they were so much fun. Traditional and modern at the same time. I love the newsprint leaves!