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Painted Pumpkin Lady

Oct 26, 20123,981 views
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Halloween Activities For Kids: Painting Pumpkins for Halloween Save
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by TurkeyMom in Halloween

Ages2–7 yrs
Prep20 min
Activity—
Leveleasy
MessMedium
Works for1:1 · Small group · Class

Paint three pumpkins, decorate them with marker-drawn shapes, add a paper-and-felt face and painted stick arms, then stack them into a Pumpkin Lady for the porch. All you really need is pumpkins and paint; the extras are optional.

⚠️ Safety first

  • Use washable, non-toxic kids' paint. The post doesn't say which paint was used.
  • Pumpkins are heavy and can roll. An adult should help stack them so they don't fall on small hands or feet.
  • Adult does the cutting of the paper and felt facial features.
  • Small felt and paper pieces and sticks can be a choking or poking hazard for toddlers. Supervise closely.

Before the kids arrive

  • Cover the table with paper.
  • Pick three pumpkins in graduated sizes that will stack.

Steps

  1. Paint the middle pumpkin pink.

  2. Paint the largest pumpkin green.

  3. Let the paint dry. Come back to paint and decorate more over a few days.

  4. When the paint is dry, draw basic shapes on the pumpkin with a marker and color them in.

  5. Paint the smallest pumpkin with a mix of brown and yellow for the face.

  6. Adult: cut eyes from paper and a nose and mouth from felt. Then the child sticks them on the face.

  7. Paint two sticks pink for the hands.

  8. Once everything is dry, stack the pumpkins with the biggest on the bottom and the face on top, then put the hat on.

  9. Add the stick arms and any extras, and show off your Pumpkin Lady.

Tips

  • We always try to keep our activities simple. All you need is pumpkins and paint; all the other embellishments are optional.from the author
  • The girls didn't paint and decorate all three pumpkins in one go, but they kept coming back to paint and decorate some more over 3 days. That's a good sign it's a hit.from the author
  • Putting the woman together (face, body and hands) was a good exercise for my little one.from the author

Make it your own

  • Set her out on the porch on a stool with a spider web backdrop.
  • Skip the face and extras and just paint pumpkins with geometric shapes.

The story behind it

By TurkeyMom · October 2012
halloween activities for kids
All you need for this activity are pumpkins and paint. We started off with painting the middle pumpkin pink and the largest pumpkin green.
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Painted Pumpkin Lady: the original post

Halloween activities for kids: Paint a pumpkin woman This month has been all about sharing Halloween activities for kids. Today we bring you one more, NOT Halloween craft but a larger pumpkin Halloween activity kids will enjoy. Presenting our Pumpkin Woman in all her geometric grandeur. We always try to keep our activities not just Halloween activities simple. All you need for this activity are pumpkins and paint. All the other embellishments are optional.

The process We started off with painting the middle pumpkin pink and the largest pumpkin green.

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halloween activities for kids While the girls did not paint and decorate all the three pumpkins in one go, the good part was that they kept coming back to paint and decorate some more over the course of 3 days. Good indicator that this Halloween activity is a hit.

When the paint dried on each pumpkin, Big A drew some basic shapes with a marker and colored them in. I did a few of them on the green pumpkin.

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halloween activities for kids For the face, I cut out the eyes with paper and nose and mouth with felt cloth while Baby A painted a combination of brown and yellow paint. Later she stuck the facial features on the face. halloween activities for kids

We even painted the sticks pink for hands It was a good exercise for Baby A to put the woman together. Face, body and hands.

halloween activities for kids Once they all dried, baby A helped me stack the pumpkins and put the hat on for the lady.

halloween activities for kids She is all ready to go out to our porch to sit on a borderline comfortable black stool with a spider web backdrop.

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💬 2 comments ✍️ 1 answered by the author

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  1. TurkeyMomAuthor · Nov 2012 · replying to The Iowa Farmer's Wife

    Thanks.

  2. The Iowa Farmer's Wife · Nov 2012

    aww what a fabulous project! She turned out great!

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