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10 Fun Ways To Decorate Your Pumpkin - Without Ever Picking Up A Knife

mharding221
Oct 27, 2015
3 min read

With Halloween quickly approaching, and pumpkins around every corner, I tried to come up with different ways for my little one to help decorate our pumpkins - without carving or needing a knife (you know, because he's 4 and all). Here are some of our favorites:

1. The Ornate Pumpkin: This classy-looking pumpkin is super easy to make. I grabbed a few inches of flat lace from my local craft store, glued it around the base, added some crystals, and voila!

2. The Funny Faces Pumpkin: Foam stickers, again found at the craft store, make easy, cute faces.

3. The Scarecrow Pumpkin: We used a combination of regular stickers and paint for the face of this one. I made the scarecrow's clothes, but you can use old infant clothes or doll clothes if you want a quicker project. Instead of hay (which I found way too messy), I filled the clothes with natural-colored raffia (again, craft or fabric stores).

4.The Witch Pumpkin (Gourd): I was, once again, a bit crazy and actually made the witch's dress for this, but any doll's dress would work. I filled from the waist up with raffia, and sat that on top of an upside-down pail to balance it (and to give the appearance of filling out the skirt). Then I added the head - which is actually a green gourd with raffia glued to it for hair, and a green pushpin nose.

5. The Sparkly Pumpkin: Warning: do this over some newspaper OUTSIDE. We used clear spray paint, covered the pumpkin with it, and then sprinkled glitter on. Dries pretty quickly.

6. The Spooky Pumpkin: This one was a lot of fun. Gather your fattest red crayons (paper removed) and glue them on the pumpkin, near the stem (or carefully balance them in the pumpkin's grooves, like I did. It takes a lot more patience, but I always burn myself on my hot-glue gun, so...). Melt the crayons with a hairdryer and gravity will pretty much do the rest. You could always make a rainbow pumpkin, using different colored crayons, but I wanted to do something a bit scarier.

7. The Ghost Pumpkin: Scraps of white fabric and a black marker - doesn't get any easier. This one was the Munchkin's favorite, but I think it was just because he liked waving it around and making spooky sounds.

8. The Discoball Pumpkin: I saw a pumpkin covered in sequins at the craft store, and I just had to try it - it was just so sparkly! You can do this one of 2 ways. Either glue each sequin on (which just seemed too messy for me), or do what I did: use a pin to attach each sequin (by skewering them into the pumpkin). I'm not gonna lie, this took me quite a while, and will make your pumpkin get squishy quicker, but it looks pretty neat. I even had the Munchkin grab his toy hammer, and hit the pins in - which he loved.

9. The Painted Pumpkin: I just gave the Munchkin some paints and let him go crazy. Just make sure the paints aren't the washable kind if you're storing your pumpkin outside.

10. The Patchwork Pumpkin: Cover your pumpkin in glue (we used Elmer's Glue), and stick small scraps of fabric all over it. A bit messy, but easy and fun for the little ones.