Pumpkin Painting...

Over the weekend we decided to squeeze in little art project, before Halloween. We decided to paint some pumpkins, since we felt like carving would be more complicated and not as much fun for Elijah to participate in.

First we gathered together the pumpkins and

let Elijah pick the image to stencil

I cut out the stencils using my Cricut

(an Owl from Create a Critter and Happy Halloween from one of the font cartridges)

I taped them onto the pumpkins and tried to tape the inner part of owl

to the pumpkin also, so it couldn't come up when painting

We bought a 24 pack of acrylic paint from Wal-Mart

to use on different projects throughout the year,

so we used black and white on the pumpkins

He got to work, painting away, filling the whole area

Caleb supervised the project

He did a great job

After the bigger pumpkin was done

He moved to the smaller pumpkin

He filled in the whole little pumpkin stencil too

Later, after he went to bed I peeled off the stencil and this is what we had.

I think next time I am goin to dry the paint out with a hairdryer

so it's not so wet when I'm trying to peel the paper off.

But, of course, I love the results anyway, because Elijah painted it

*Now that you've seen the results, I just want to say that I wasn't doing this for it to look perfect. Actually I was just doing it for something Elijah could help with, to decorate for Halloween. If I were to do this for my own benefit I would have done a few things differently. I would have used removable adhesive to hold down everything and I, also, would have used a stencil brush. I feel like that in conjunction with using a hairdryer to dry out the paint before peeling off the stencil would make this project look a lot better.

Did you do any projects for Halloween?