Last year I bought a white pumpkin for Halloween. I’d never seen one and loved it. I just set it on my porch as is and it was so pretty. The best thing about that pumpkin is at Christmas I turned it into a snowman! Then for our actual Jack-O-Lantern we got a mid sized pumpkin and painted it silver. Then we cut an alien face on it and stuck a green glow stick in there….man was that cool and creepy!! Here are our pumpkins from last year. The kids had so much fun just putting stickers on them (which I got at the dollar store!)
We haven’t been to a pumpkin patch yet this year but since Walmart carries pumpkins for $3.88 I had to get one! A few days later a letter came home from my 8 yr olds school saying there was a pumpkin decorating contest. So off to Walmart I went. I found some smallish pumpkins and they were 75 cents a pound…I thought that’s not bad. Well it was. They were $4 and $5 because they were pie pumpkins. WTH!?!?! I didn’t know there was a difference.
So with that I told my son about the contest and asked if he wanted to participate. He said yes. This contest is to decorate the pumpkin not carve so being it was the afternoon before it was due (cause we had a busy weekend, doh!) I told him that we are limited on what we can do. I said we can paint it black and make Darth Vader or green and make Yoda (he loves Star Wars). But I also said unless you can come up with something else that’s easy….he couldn’t. So the hubbs and I discussed materials. I painted it then I ran (well drove) to Michaels for foam and felt. Since it was a late start and Monday’s suck anyways we didn’t get around to putting it together until 8:30 that night. And then it hit us! DUH, we have Darth Vader potato head parts…asked him what he wanted to do and he wanted to use the potato head parts (so now I have foam in Vader colors, lol!). So of course we were having trouble getting the younger one to sleep and guess where the potato head pieces were….yup, his room. That meant once he was asleep we had to sneek that buck out of his room and get the parts. So he had to do it right before school…he barely made it to school on time and he’s usually 15 min early every day. So yah…he won 1st place for best character and 2nd place for overall best! Can you believe that?!! What a great way for us parents to teach our kids to procrastinate on projects till the morning it’s due….cause your gonna ace it!!! Lordy I just know he’s gonna bring this up in high school. Here it is….I think it’s great!
Then since I had gotten my youngest son a pumpkin I thought let’s paint it silver…at this point I had no idea what to do on it so picking my color before was kinda silly. I’d thought about cutting a spider and sticking it to it but then when we were getting the Vader parts I saw it! I’d totally forgotten that we had a Transformer potato head. So there ya go…we pulled it off!
So while I was painting pumpkins I painted my cheap Walmart pumpkin a teal color (Rustoleum’s Lagoon). I was going to put white chevron stripes on it and well since i’m still new and learning my silhouette I totally screwed that up, lol! I thought…what’s fallish that no one does (or that I haven’t seen). Searched fall in the online silhouette store and voila! Up popped acorns. That was it…I had to do that. I added a burlap bow to the stem (which i’m going to redo—I want longer tails) stuck on my acorn vinyl and voila!
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