If your pumpkin is fresh, it can last for a month or two.
Create your own masterpiece or let your children create theirs. Put the finished masterpiece on your table or front porch and share the name of Jesus!
All you need is a pumpkin, inexpensive acrylic paints, and a marker to do the detailed lettering or design.
Why not paint a pumpkin for Thanksgiving or harvest time?
I started with a nice orange pumpkin from Walmart ($3.88).
Then I painted it about halfway down with an acrylic paint called "light mocha."
I finished the edges with an "informal scallop" (i.e. sloppy scallop).
Then I added a layer of light blue and purposely made the border "feathery."
It took some experimenting with colors to get what I wanted. I darkened the first blue, then added a navy blue on top of it. I purposely allowed the lighter blue to show through.
This is my finished pumpkin.
With a Sharpie, I free-handed "Give Thanks unto the Lord" and added some dot designs.
Both painting and writing on the pumpkin required care. The paint kept coming up when new coats were added and it was easy to pull up paint with the Sharpie.
It's a little traditional and non-traditional, but I like it.
And, hey, it cost me less than $5.
And, hey, it cost me less than $5.
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Very nice and simple tutorial! It's fun to see what others are doing with pumpkins. Pumpkins will be my October food of the month over at harringtonharmonies.com . Thanks for inspiring me:)Many Blessings.
ReplyDeleteHow cute! Thank you for sharing. Visiting from Adorned from Above. Would love it if you would share this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-it-pretty-monday-week-16.html Hope to see you at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
ReplyDeletethis looks amazing! i love it, and am determined to paint pumpkins this year!
ReplyDeleteLove the blue as a fall color!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that I'm following you! What a beautiful pumpkin. It looks great. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome work:)
ReplyDeleteKatie
www.funhomethings.com
Such a great idea! You are very creative. Thanks so much for linking up at Romance on a dime!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of painting the pumpkin AND writing on it with Sharpies. I've been eyeing "white" pumpkins but wasn't sure where to get one. I can just make my own!
ReplyDeletewoow....that´s a great job :) it looks lovley.....
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I love it!! I think I can do this one!! I especially love it because it is a fall idea and also honoring to the Lord. I need to figure out how to Pin It (hint...you need a Pin it button for people like me, lol) so I can find it in a week when I forget where I saw it :-)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I pinned it!! Woohoo!! Just copy Gail's link...go to Pinterest and enter the link in 'Add Link" . . . But I suppose you all knew this, lol :-)
ReplyDeleteSo addled am I....Thanks so much Gail for linking up at WholeHearted Home Wednesdays. I just love your blog. It is most of the time the first blog I read and probably the only one until I am done with all that calls my name.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job! My weekly linky party--One Creative Weekend--has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit "One Creative Weekend" on OneCreativeMommy.com (open every Fri-Wed) and link up this idea and anything else you’d like to share. (You can include non-Halloween posts as well, but feel free to link up as many Halloween-themed posts as you like.) There are two categories—one for Halloween and one for everything else.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute. Thank you so much for sharing with Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party last week. This weeks Link Party is opened at
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from Wednesday until Sunday.
Hope to see you there.
Debi Bolocofsky
Adorned From Above
www.adornedfromabove.com
Such a nice color to have with your assortment of blue dishes! Happy Thanksgiving, Gail.
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