Spooky Painted Pumpkin

How to Make

1. Clean your pumpkin with soapy water and dry thoroughly.
2. Use a sponge paint dabber to cover the pumpkin in white acrylic paint. You may need a few coats to cover the pumpkin evenly. Allow to dry.
3. Mix some purple acrylic paint and white acrylic paint to make your light-purple paint. Use a sponge paint dabber to cover the pumpkin in the light-purple paint. Allow to dry.
4. Mix some orange acrylic paint and white acrylic paint to make your light-orange paint. Write the word ‘Spooky’ in big letters with a pencil, then go over your outline with the light-orange paint, using a small paintbrush. Alternatively, you can use self-adhesive glitter felt letters.
5. Paint the pumpkin stalk light-orange.
6. To make your ghosts, stamp some white circles around your ‘Spooky’ using a paint dabber. Then, with a small paintbrush, make a V-shape to make the ghosts tail and fill it in with white paint. When dry, use the black deco pen to make two circle eyes.
7. In the gaps between your ghosts, draw some bat silhouette shapes with the black deco pen.
8. To finish your spooky pumpkin, stick on purple self-adhesive gems to the spaces that are left in between the ghosts and the bats.

Top Tip

Make sure the paint dries thoroughly before adding your next layer.