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Drip-painted pumpkins: an awesome new way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween!

October 1, 2015 by Katie 1 Comment

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I love carving pumpkins as much as the next person. But after years of carving pumpkins, carving was starting to feel a little ho-hum.

So I was looking for a different way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween. Fortunately, I discovered drip-painted pumpkins as a fun (and less messy!) way of creating some beautiful Halloween pumpkins.

Note: For more kid-friendly Halloween crafts, see my Halloween activities for Kids page.

Drip-painted pumpkins - a beautiful way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween! OMG I love this! || Gift of Curiosity

We decided to use our mini-pumpkins as the “canvass” for our drip paintings. I set them on a tray covered in newsprint to contain the mess. Then I invited my kids to select three colors of tempera paint to apply.

Drip-painted pumpkins - a beautiful way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween! OMG I love this! || Gift of Curiosity

They squeezed a generous amount of paint onto the top of the pumpkin, allowing it to drip down the sides due to the force of gravity.

Drip-painted pumpkins - a beautiful way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween! OMG I love this! || Gift of Curiosity

The end result was quite beautiful. The paint cracked a bit when it dried, but the overall look was still quite striking. Some of the colors blended together a bit, creating new and beautiful color combinations.

Drip-painted pumpkins - a beautiful way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween! OMG I love this! || Gift of Curiosity

And the clean up was sooo much easier than the clean up after carving pumpkins!

Drip-painted pumpkins - a beautiful way to decorate pumpkins for Halloween! OMG I love this! || Gift of Curiosity

And perhaps best of all, these pumpkins won’t rot in a few days like our carved pumpkins, so we can make them at the beginning of October and they will last all month long!

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More pumpkin posts from Gift of Curiosity:

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  • Pumpkin do-a-dot printables
  • Printable pumpkin outlines


For more fun-filled Halloween activities, see my Halloween Activities for Kids page and my Halloween Activities for Kids Pinterest board. 

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  1. Charlene Asay says

    October 7, 2015 at 10:33 am

    What a cute idea. My 2 year old would love this. She loves painting anything!

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