Painting Pumpkins
Posted: October 11, 2011 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Experimentation, Holiday, Outside, Paint, Printing, sensory, Small Motor Skill | 7 Comments »
Placing the tape
I caved and joined Pinterest. It’s only been a couple of days, and I can tell it will help me organize fun, inspiring finds on other blogs. This is one seasonal “craft” that I found while browsing around: Spray Painted Pumpkins from HAPPYmundane where you can find beauty in a soap dish…clean lines, simple idea, do-it-yourself, and the best part of all…the kids will be able flex the project to their own ideas and will love the use of tape and color.
gesso and pumpkins
We wrap the pumpkins up with random patterns of masking tape.
The Spray Painted Pumpkins from HAPPYmundane are beautiful, very POP, but I have serious hesitation with introducing a paint spray can to children. Have you ever seen a kid with a hose?
We use acrylic paint instead, starting with gesso, my thoughts being that it was more durable, permanent than poster paint and we have lots of it.
working together to cover the larger pumpkin with acrylic
The kids work as a team to cover the pumpkins in paint after the gesso layer dries in the sun. They have been LOVING to mix colors to “see what will happen,” so there’s a lot of this going on as we paint.
We put the pumpkins back in the sun when we finish and move onto another project, but we’re all so eager to remove the tape and see how it turned out, that we quickly return. A little too early. While removing the tape, we discover wet gesso, but that doesn’t stop us. We keep peeling to a rather dark and eerie, mummy-like affect. We’re pretty happy with the way they came out. They live on our front step after I spray them with an acrylic glaze.
finished pumpkins
Those are really cool! Love all the paint!
I think the spray paint would look the best if you want the pumpkin to look really great, but the kids really enjoyed the process with the thick paint.
We paint pumpkins every year. We usually get together with my best friend’s family. All the adults carve pumpkins while the kids paint pumpkins. I haven’t met a child that didn’t love painting pumpkins. They have so much fun with the process and then they are so proud of their creations. I love the tape addition! We will definitely add that this year. Don’t you just love pinterest? I was hopelessly addicted the first few weeks.
I also meant to tell you that yours turned out beautifully spooky! I’m your newest follower!
Love that you taped them off! So many designs can be made then!! What a wonderful idea – I had to include this in a roundup of pumpkin activities for kids today
Thanks for the inspiration!!
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