Helen G. DesignsDIY Painted Pumpkins, Kids Can Do It! - Helen G. Designs https://www.helengullett.com/diy-painted-pumpkins/ Creating Joyfully With Purpose ~ Philippians 2:13 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:28:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.helengullett.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 DIY Painted Pumpkins, Kids Can Do It! - Helen G. Designs https://www.helengullett.com/diy-painted-pumpkins/ 32 32 24159292 DIY Painted Pumpkins, Kids Can Do It! https://www.helengullett.com/diy-painted-pumpkins/ https://www.helengullett.com/diy-painted-pumpkins/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:00:07 +0000 Helen Gullett http://helengullett.com/?p=5700 A couple of weeks ago, we took the girls to a pumpkin patch where they picked their own sizes of pumpkins. It was an interesting thing to do as family for sure, especially now the little girl is walking and pretty much wanna do what her big sister does. We also thought that it would […]

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]]> A couple of weeks ago, we took the girls to a pumpkin patch where they picked their own sizes of pumpkins. It was an interesting thing to do as family for sure, especially now the little girl is walking and pretty much wanna do what her big sister does. We also thought that it would be fun for them to decorate it by themselves.

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I asked the big girl how she wanted to decorate hers by giving her some clues like with stickers, or glitter, or gems, or markers, or paint. And she decided to paint her pumpkin. And I thought… That will be a messy one!

And of course the little girl also wants to do the same thing like her big sister. So we went with Painted pumpkins.

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The big girl wanted a black car on her pumpkin. I thought would be easier for her to paint using stencil. So I got a cat shape at Silhouette Online Store for only $0.75 because Silhouette has 25% deal for all Halloween shapes until October 31. Scored!

I opened the shape on Silhouette Studio Designer Edition Software, resized it to about 4 inch tall and sent to cut the piece of cardstock.

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Cat Silhouette (Sarah Hurley)

After that I used pushpins to hold the cat cutout on the pumpkin and traced it using a pencil.

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Then she started to paint the cat using kids acrylic paint we had at home. You can use any kind of acrylic paint as long as it is safe for kids. Sometimes the fume from the paint is too strong for kids.

MAKE SURE you have enough scrap paper or old newspaper covering your table before you let the kids star painting.

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The big girl took her pumpkin to her school Annual Fall Festival & Pumpkin show on Oct 18th, 2014.
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And for the little girl, she used Crayola Finger Paint for kids (this a no mess paint, washable and in tubes). I put red, blue, green and yellow on a paper plate. Then I gave her a brush but she asked for two because her big sister had more than one. Once she had a brush on each hand, she just went ahead express her creativity on her pumpkin.

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And she loves her arty pumpkin!

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I was so afraid it could get super messy, but turned out both of them were so good with paints! And old newspaper surely helped to prevent the messiness 🙂

What did you do to decorate your pumpkin this year? Did you do it as a family?

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