Pumpkin Painting Ideas

Are you looking for, how to decorate a pumpkin without carving? Here, we have some new and innovative pumpkin painting ideas to add to the celebration and decoration of Halloween. The pumpkin can be used to decorate the outdoors by making scarecrow, fence decoration, pumpkin lanterns on the pathway, etc. A flower vase, candle stand, pumpkin showpiece, etc., can also be made as Halloween craft to decorate the indoors as well. So get ready to paint the pumpkins and celebrate this event in style.

Painting Ideas for a Halloween Pumpkin

Following are some great ideas to paint pumpkins for children as well as adults. For this Halloween, take your pick from this lot.

For Children

Pumpkin Pinocchio
This idea requires a little imagination and effort to make pumpkin a 'crowd-pleaser'. Take a pumpkin that cannot sit or a less than perfect pumpkin, so that the stem would become the nose. Paint the nose Tuscan red and prime the surface of pumpkin with multi-purpose sealer. Paint the eyes close to the stem with white and black. Use olive-green colors to paint hair tuft just above the eyes. Dress him with a top hat for the evening. These painted pumpkin faces look awesome and attractive.

Pumpkin Leggy Spider
Cut the pumpkin from top and bottom to make it flat. Paint it all black. Use white color to paint mouth and eyes. Stick black pompom on the white base of eyes and purple pompom for nose and a boa of same color on the head for hair. For legs use the soft tufted cord that is generally used in embroidery, called chenille. Bend the chenille and attach them to the pumpkin. This long-legged arachnid, a homemade Halloween decoration, can be very easily made by the kids.

For Adults

Pumpkin Silhouette Painting
Draw a face of a witch or a ghost or a bat with a pencil or you can also use stencils to make the task quick and easy. Cut it out from the pumpkin. Paint the complete pumpkin with white color and then paint the silhouette black (this will include the interior of the pumpkin). Apply a layer of varnish so that the paint sets and shines. Encircle the silhouette with a black lace and decorate it with pins that are pearl-headed.

Haunted Pumpkin Mansion
Painting a ghosted mansion with windows chiseled in the pumpkin would give haunting looks. Draw a haunted mansion on the pumpkin and a moon behind it to make it look like a scary night. Cut out the windows in it and candlelight the pumpkin from inside.

Other Painting Ideas

There is no end to finding ideas, but here we have some more ideas that can help you in Halloween decoration and for painting pumpkins.

Different Paints
Metallic paints like bronze, silver, gold, or glitters when put together would look elegant and beautiful. Making use of spray painting with black color, along with adding features to it with contrast colors like olive-green, white, orange, and yellow would look very different. But all dark would not be visible during night, so you can also use glow-in-dark paint to highlight the features.

Different Patterns
Stencils can also be used with spray paints to make patterns if you are not good at drawing. You can easily get the stencils from the local craft stores. Pumpkin face painting that are spooky, scary or goofy and use of tinsel, hats, raffia to decorate the pumpkins would stand out of the rest.

Different Designs
Some unique designs that can be made with pumpkin are watermelon pumpkin, samurai pumpkin, polka dot pumpkin, candy wrapper pumpkin, pinky pumpkin, boogy eyes pumpkin, long-nosed frog pumpkin, pirate pumpkin, pumpkin cat, Humpty pumpkin, robot pumpkin... the list is endless.

Collect all the supplies before you start painting pumpkins. Go ahead and enjoy. Happy Halloween!