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Easy Witch Pumpkin (No Carve)
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This fun Witch Pumpkin painting activity is the perfect way to get crafty this Halloween! Kids will have a great time creating their very own witch pumpkins, complete with a funny green face and sparkly witch hat.
We’ve made tons of fun pumpkin creations over the years, from traditional Halloween designs like black cat pumpkins, to superheroes and movie characters like Spiderman pumpkins and Minions pumpkins. I can’t believe it took us so long to make wicked witch pumpkins though…it seems like such a no-brainer!
Equal parts cute and creepy, you don’t need much to make your own no-carve pumpkin witch. All it takes is some white, green, and black paint and a few simple supplies to turn these pumpkins into a festive Halloween decoration that your kids can proudly display in the house. And like unlike real pumpkin carvings, these won’t rot, so you can save them and enjoy them as part of your Halloween decor year after year.
Witch pumpkin painting makes a great group activity too! It’s perfect for a kids’ Halloween party or classroom event or a great family activity. The kids will love creating their very own witch mini pumpkins as a new Halloween tradition!
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What We Love About This Activity
Less Mess – We love an craft that uses a fake Halloween pumpkin. You get perfectly shaped and uniform size pumpkins every time, with no carving and no pumpkin guts to clean up!
Safe – And speaking of no-carve, any pumpkin craft that doesn’t require sharp knifes is a win in my book. This activity is safe even for the young kids.
Inexpensive – You can find Styrofoam craft pumpkins at Dollar Tree, and I always stock up when I find them. There are endless cute crafts you can make with these budget- friendly supplies.
Easy – With sponge brushes, templates, and tracers to help you make the perfect Halloween witch face, it doesn’t take any special artistic talent to create these cute crafts – they come out great every time.
DIY Craft Supplies
- Styrofoam pumpkins (or any type of faux pumpkin)
- Green, black, and white paint
- Black craft foam
- Purple ribbon
- Gold sparkle card stock
- Black yarn
- Aluminum foil
- Hot glue gun
- Glue sticks
- It can be tricky to paint the nooks and crannies of the crumbled-up foil for the witch’s nose. If you prefer, you can paint a square of the foil green and let it dry before crumbling it into the nose shape.
- You don’t have to start with a white pumpkin. If your Styrofoam pumpkin is orange or another color, the green base coat of paint should cover it nicely. If not, simply add a second coat.
- Don’t have green paint? No problem – purple works great too! You can even use both green and purple and make your witches in two different colors.
- If you’re making this for a party activity, or if you just want to cut down on the mess, you can paint all the pumpkins green (with regular or spray paint) and let them dry ahead of time. The kids will still have a great time adding the witch hats and faces.
55 Easy Pumpkin Faces to Carve, Draw and Paint on Your Classic Jack-O’-Lanterns
Cute, silly and scary faces for your Halloween gourds.
By Cameron Jenkins and Mariah Thomas Updated: Jul 31, 2023
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Good Housekeeping/ Mike Garten
Decorating pumpkins is a fun Halloween tradition that’s all about creativity. While there are tons of no-carve ideas and painted pumpkin projects to choose from, nothing is cooler than seeing the pumpkin faces you worked hard to carve into your gourds. If you ask us, you can’t go wrong with classic ideas like lions, cats, scarecrows and skeletons.
Below, we share some of the silliest, spookiest and cutest pumpkin faces you’ll want to display on Halloween. You’ll find painted pineapple pumpkins, a crazy-eyed cookie monster, the beloved Hello Kitty and the static-loving Pokémon, Pikachu. Kids can easily use these simple stencils as inspiration (with adult supervision, of course!), along with our pumpkin carving tips to guide them along the way. Plus, many of our ideas are beginner-friendly, so you can purchase your pumpkin carving kit and get to scooping out those pumpkin guts for painting, drawing or carving.
What makes these fall and Halloween-inspired pumpkin faces so fun is their ability to be displayed all season long. Make them part of your fall porch decor or weave them into your overall indoor and outdoor autumn decorations. So, go big or gourd home, and choose any of these Halloween pumpkin faces to keep this entertaining, family-friendly activity going.
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Pineapple Pumpkin Face
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Keep the feeling of summer going with a pumpkin-turned pineapple, complete with sunglasses. Simply spray paint your gourd yellow before using green cardstock to DIY the pineapple head.
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Googly-Eyed Warts Pumpkin Faces
Mike Garten
Your bumpy pumpkins and gourds can be used for Halloween night before throwing them away for good. Make eyeballs by cutting styrofoam balls in half and hot gluing candy to the center (chocolatey M&M’s, perhaps?). Hollow out the gourds to create the ears and use twigs for the teeth and tiny legs.
