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October 20, 2016

10 minute DIY: A (not so) spooky painted pumpkin family

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Here’s a quick and cute (rather than creepy) Halloween DIY.   I love how the Americans often paint their pumpkins rather than carve them.  For me, carved pumpkins look a bit too creepy – like they’re about to come and eat you up or something!  So I thought it would be fun to make my own mini painted pumpkins.

I decided to use not only mini pumpkins but their bigger cousins – the butternut squash – too and turned them in to a little (not so) spooky Halloween family.  I turned the mini pumpkins in to a witch, a ghost and a bat and the squash in to a one-eyed monster to make a spooktacular family!

This little family of pumpkins will make a fun Halloween table centrepiece or they’d look great placed on a table outside your door to welcome trick or treaters.

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This is a really simple DIY so it doesn’t need much explanation.  Except maybe the witch one so here’s how I made that:

I started by painting the mini pumpkin black and then painted over the black in green because I wanted the colour to have a black undertone and not a flat green.

how to make a witches hat from paper

For the hat, you need some thin black card, glue and tape. Cut a round piece of card around the size of your pumpkin.  Make a hole in the centre and keep expanding the hole until it’s large enough to go through the stem of your pumpkin.  I used a toothpick to start and then made it bigger with a pencil.

Take another piece of card and cut a quarter circle with tabs, like in the picture.  The size will depend on the size of your pumpkin.  I have mini pumpkins and so my circle measured 20-22cms diameter and radius was around 10-11cms (geometry lesson over!).

Fold the card paper to form a cone shape with a pointy tip and stick using a glue gun or any strong glue. Make slits in your circle (easiest to use a craft knife) to line-up with the tabs in the hat and slip them through and tape on the back.  Bend the pointy top of the hat and slide on to your painted pumpkin.

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The ghost, the bat and the monster pumpkins are very simple as you can see.  For the bat, I painted the pumpkin black, painted on some eyes and finished with some black garden wire that I taped to the back to make the over-sized ears.  I had planned to paint the butternut squash orange but I thought the natural soft orange colour was even prettier. So I left it and painted on a large spooky eye and also painted the stalk in black.

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So, do you think you’ll have a go at creating your own mini painted pumpkins family this Halloween?

P.S. Want more Halloween stuff? Here is a post full of fun Halloween table decorations and another with a cute Halloween craft for kids with video.

*I know you can’t see the witch and the bat that clearly (they look better in real life!) but I wanted a dark background as it’s Halloween. I’m just a beginner at dark and moody photography and am trying to teach myself as I go. If anyone has any tips, please share them with me. Thanks!

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