Pumpkin projects for kids

We're leaving the carving tools in the drawer, and coming up with some other fun ways to create a perfect Halloween pumpkin. 

Donna Kreuter from Artworks in Suamico shared her ideas on Saturday's Good Day Wisconsin.

Artworks -- located at 2300 Lineville Road -- offers fall and winter classes for kids from now until February.

They are offered Mondays through Thursadys during both the AM and PM.

Call Donna at (920)639-0751 for more details.

Below, are the projects Donna shared with us on Saturday's Good Day Wisconsin.

 

Vege-Pumpkin

Once you have the size pumpkin you want, the first step is to paint it.

• Pick any color of acrylic paint (the paint must by acrylic so it sticks to the pumpkin).             **Reminder- acrylic pain doesn't come out of clothes**
• You will need to paint 2 coats on your pumpkin.
• Let one coat dry before you paint the next.

Next comes making the face and hair on your pumpkin.

Face:

• Have fun looking for an assortment of gourds; these will be the eyes, nose, mouth, etc. of your face.
• Check out the produce section at your grocery store too, and see what you find!
• When attaching the gourds, it's helpful to poke a hole in the gourd and the pumpkin first (a screw driver works for this)
• Use toothpicks or small wooden craft sticks to then stick in the gourd, and then attach this to the holes in your pumpkin.
• **Recycling tip: instead of craft sticks, try gluing 2 pizza tables together on the flat sides, and then use this to attach the gourd to your pumpkin.

Hair:

• Use small branches or twigs, and stick them out of the top of your pumpkin. (poking a hole first helps!)
• For more hair, add Kale or anohter leaf-y produce, and put this around your branches on the top of your pumpkin.
• ** You can decorate your pumpkin with anything else you like: googley-eyes, spider webs, pom-poms, etc.

 

Crazy Pumpkin

Once you have the size pumpkin you want, the first step is to paint it.

• Pick any color of acrylic Paint (the paint must be acrylic to stick to pumpkin)                                                                                 
  **Reminder- actylic pain doesn't come out of clothes**
• You will need to paint 2 coats on your pumpkin.
• Let one coat dry before you paint the next.
• Next, you can add dots to your pumpkin using foam-sponge stampers.
• Pick any color of paint for your dots.

Next, it's time to make the face and hair of your pumpkin.

Hair:

• Use an assortment of suckers and poke these out of the top of your pumpkin
• Make sure you poke a hole first, this works best. (a screw-driver can do this)
• For more hair, you can add small glow-in-the-dark sticks. Again, poking a hole first helps.
• To decorate your hair more, you can use fake flowers and pom-poms on top of the glow sticks or directly on the pumpkin.
• A glue-gun is needed to do this, make sure an adult does this part.

Face:

• Use googley-eyes to pop out of your pumpkin; use a glue gun to attach.
• Add a nose from a gourd or something else you like.
• Attach with the hot glue-gun, or use sticks to poke in the gourd and then into your pumpkin.
• Make a happy face from pom-poms of something else you ike, attach with a hot glue gun again.
• **make sure an adult helps!

Add any other decorations to your pumpkin that you would like.