Pumpkin Ideas

Remember the pumpkin from last week? You know, the one we picked out because Will was really hungry on the way home from swim practice and they had a huge bin of pumpkins outside the grocery store?

Mikey painted it to make it look like a ghost! 

Other Fun Pumpkin Ideas

1. Carving is cool, but sometimes tricky.  When my kids were little, we’d let them choose the design and the adults would do the carving. As the kids get older, we used stencils to help them with the design and let them carve using safety knives.
2. Painting with glow in the dark paint. This is leveling up from our little ghost, but super fun.
3. Sticker pumpkin decorating kits could not be more simple…apply stickers and voila, you have decorated pumpkins. They also sell the kits with foam stickers.
4. Kits with a small mallet, a book of designs and clear plastic nails that light up once the candle is inside (think lite brite, but a pumpkin).
5. Kits with prongs, like a Mr. Potato Head type situation.  We have one that is a scarecrow, a vampire and a warewolf and we can reuse them every year.
6. Kits with what are essentially cookie cutters and a small mallet for your child to hammer out the shapes they want.

In short, there are a million ways to decorate your pumpkins. Just pick one that is safe and fun for your kiddo and go for it!