29 Bewitching Ways to Decorate a Pumpkin
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Show off your Halloween spirit with these unique and one-of-a-kind ideas for designing and displaying your pumpkin throughout the home this season. The spooky, starry sky is the limit as far as creativity goes! And good news—to produce a creation that’s wow-worthy, your pumpkin doesn’t always have to go under the knife. To get started, just raid your craft drawer. Whether you have puffy paint and glitter or kidney beans and thumb tacks, you’d be surprised how much you can do. Click through for 29 festive and fun ideas for decorating this year’s pumpkin.
Type Face
Make a statement with some signage on your front porch. This no-carve creation requires nothing more than spray paint, chalk or a silver Sharpie marker, and your favorite font. (Don’t worry, you get to trace it! No hand-lettering skills required.) After you color your pumpkin and let it dry, lay a print-out of your choice phrase over the rind; then trace around each letter, pressing hard enough so that there’s a clear indent to outline wherever you need to fill in.
Pin-terest Worthy
Who said Halloween had to be all orange and black? Stray from the norm with a festive centerpiece made from a white pumpkin and colorful confetti brads. Tough enough to pierce the pumpkin’s skin, these brads can be pressed into a pattern of your choosing for a no-carve, one-of-a-kind design.
Go Ombré
Well isn’t this a treat: A candy corn–inspired paint job
! The key to the ombre is working quickly. Paint the lightest color on the upper third of your pumpkin, and progressively go darker with each of the other sections. Then, before it all dries, use a fresh paintbrush to blend the colors together. Script your sentiment by hand or, as this clever designer did, cut your words out of adhesive vinyl to stick on when the paint dries for an even, matte black finish.
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A Little Sparkle
This ritzy no-carve idea requires little more than sequins. Sugar and Cloth shares the tips for creating these chic and shimmery pumpkins.
Black and White
Keep your entryway table decor on trend with a small patch of no-carve pumpkins like these by Homey Oh My. The designs are easy enough to freehand, you won’t have to worry about making any mistakes.
Starry Night
Nothing beats looking up at a star-filled sky on an October night! Bring that view down to earth by carving it into your pumpkin. Remove the seeds, coat your pumpkin in black spray paint, then use a drill recreate your favorite constellations on the front of your gourd. Once a candle is in place, the flickering dots of light will mimic the skies above.
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Nice in Neon
Colorful and easy? That’s music to the ears of most DIYers. For your own set of brightly decorated
pumpkins, first spray paint them in a solid black or white base. Then dip and flip: Brush on an excessive amount of neon craft paint, and turn the gourd upside down so it drips down the side toward the stem. Once you’re happy with where the paint lands, let your pumpkin dry.
All-a-Glitter
You can’t be afraid to get your hands glittery to partake in this dazzling DIY. Paint your pumpkin in your favorite color, coat its stem in tacky glue, then sprinkle on all of the sparkles. When dry, you can brush off the excess glitter and move to whichever room or space could use a punch of color.
Happy Henna
This of-the-earth pumpkin project adds a real rustic quality to the home when placed near your front door. To achieve the faux wood-burned effect, sketch your desired design in pencil and trace carefully over the pattern in henna paint. The finished look appears best on a natural, unpainted pumpkins, especially the ones like the blue or white.
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Creature Comfort
Inspired by majestic snow owls, this fresh idea turns white pumpkin with a bent stem into the beaked face of a woodland creature. To make your own, flip a gourd on its side, carve out two holes for eyes and fill each with a large Sempervivum rosette. Extra pumpkin cut-out pieces can create the owl’s horns; dress them with evergreen clippings to add a winter camouflage to your finished look.
Preppy Pumpkin
What’s fall without an argyle sweater? Just because you don’t have one in your closet doesn’t mean you can’t have one on your porch. You’ll want to factor in extra dry time between layers of paint: first the base color, then your large diamonds, and finally dashed diamond lines with a detail brush.
Sweet Treat
Calling all donut lovers: We’ve found a design rivals the real deal. To turn your gourds into real treats, paint the bottom halves the color of your donut and cover the tops with white paint (or the creamy pastel color of your choice). Once the first layer dries, a tiny paint brush can detail the multi-colored sprinkles. Yum!
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Wrap Job
You’ll need plenty of patience—and baker’s twine—to recreate this clever craft. Brush on a layer of Mod Podge, then carefully wrap a spool of multi-color twine around and around your pumpkin. The key to the perfect wrap is to go slowly, making sure the twine wraps tightly and without any gaps.
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Lined and Defined
This decorative pumpkin idea takes no more than five minutes of your time—perfect when your short on time for centerpieces at the holidays. Using a copper paint pen or metallic permanent marker, trace the vertical lines along your white mini-pumpkins. Then, draw diagonal ones in each panel to create a herringbone pattern. Got one more minute to spare? Color the stem with the paint pen, too, for a finishing touch.
Splatter Effect
Prepared to make a mess this Halloween? No, we don’t mean with a pile of trashed candy wrappers—we’re talking splatter paint. To start, you’ll need to spray paint your orange pumpkin (stem included) with white paint. Let it dry, carefully cover the stem in gold leaf, and save the best saved for last: splattering a pop of color with the flick of the brush.
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Bean Baby
Embrace the colors of fall’s harvest
with a design that includes green lentils and red and white kidney beans. You can create any geometric pattern by drawing it out first with a pencil and then filling in with beans hot-glued into place. If you’re worried about any patches of orange or white pumpkin peeking through, paint the over the area you plant to fill before sticking on any beans.
Paint by Numbers
Trick-or-treaters won’t miss your door when you label your porch pumpkins with house numbers. Using a black Sharpie marker, simply trace your house number onto your orange pumpkin. Fill in the lines carefully using a paintbrush and black paint and let dry.
Picture Perfect
Turn your favorite Halloween throwback photograph into a spooky luminary. Remove the guts of your pumpkin and carve a rectangle the size of a 5×7 photograph out of the front. Then attach a flat wooden frame filled with a Halloween pic from your past, printed on either tracing paper or scrapbooking vellum. When you set a flameless candle inside at night, the photo will light up with an eery glow.
Darling Design
For a delicate touch reminiscent of the intricate spiderwebs, adhere thin white doilies to your otherwise all-natural pumpkin picks. (Orange pumpkins work best for the contrast, but you can reverse the scheme this with black lace doilies on white pumpkins, too!) Spread a light layer of the tacky glue onto the back side of the crochet work, then press onto the gourd’s skin, holding it in place for a minute until it sets.
Drill Down
