Family Halloween Pumpkins
At our home, we don’t really “do” spooky Halloween. We do fun, dress-up, eat lots of sweets Halloween. So this year, I thought it would be fun to make a pumpkin representing each member of our family that we could bring back out year after year – in addition to carving Jack-O-Lanterns in real pumpkins, of course.
My local JoAnn’s store is moving, so they are having some crazy sales right now! That allowed me to buy these carvable foam pumpkins and supplies for a steal!
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Frozen (or cinderella?) no-carve pumpkin
For ‘Belle, we chose to do a Frozen themed pumpkin because she’s straight-up obsessed. I didn’t have any craft snowflakes on hand, so I’m thinking it ended up a bit more Cinderella, right?
Regardless, it’s perfect for this little girl who loves to dress up and play princess every. single. day.
To make it, I used Krylon aqua matte spray paint to pain a white craft pumpkin.
I then layered Krylon opulent opal glitter spray paint on top. I was super bummed with this though. It was gorgeous going on, but within moments it stopped working. I figured the glitter was clogging the nozzle and I tried multiple solutions to no avail. What a waste!
I went back and purchased Krylon glitter blast diamond dust spray paint. It was also beautiful and the can worked much better.
How pretty this would have been combined with more of the opal glitter spray! I topped it with self-stick rhinestone gems and one of the girls’ princess tiaras.
Hello Kitty no-carve pumpkin
For Eve, we went the Hello Kitty route. I don’t know what it is about this cat. She’s never seen a Hello Kitty cartoon, but she loves it.
For this pumpkin, I just printed a Hello Kitty on my printer and placed it over clear contact paper to use as a stencil.
Then, I simply painted the face with black and pink acrylic paint and topped with one of the girls’ hair bows.
Minecraft Creeper pumpkin
For Dub, I had to go the Minecraft route. I bought a black craft pumpkin, carved out a square hole and painted the inside green with Krylon emerald green spray paint. I then printed out a Creeper face on the printer, placed it on clear contact paper and cut it out to use as a stencil. I then placed it inside the dry pumpkin and painted the Creeeper face with black acrylic paint.
Stud Pumpkin
For my pumpkin, I just picked up this black studded pumpkin from JoAnn’s I just love it!
For my husband, well…
He’s a long-suffering Chicago Bears fan (as am I). Da Bears!
What do you think of our no-carve Family Halloween Pumpkins? Looking for more easy Halloween ideas? Check out my Lazy Mom’s Guide to a Halloween theme dinner.
Then, check out my free printable Halloween emoji nail decals here.
extreme cuteness love the hello kitty one 🙂 Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop xo
I love the Frozen one! I also had to share this with a friend that loves Halloween and Hello Kitty!
I adore the blue one. It reminds me of Cinderella. Sorry to hear that the glitter spray was such a problem, though.
These are absolutely GORGEOUS! I think that creating a pumpkin that’s each of your “styles” is so cute…I really want to try this out, maybe next year (I’ll look for some sales on fake pumpkins). Great ideas, beautiful job…I got here from the Pin Junkie Link Party – awesome to link with you!
Thanks so much, Sam!
Love these but my fave is the aqua blue, so awesome!!
Thank you – I think that is my favorite, too!
These are SO pretty! I think I need to go this route next year!
Lol…I love these! I will admit I got a little lazy with the pumpkin carving this year. Mine look more like your husband’s pumpkin! I did a similar post here if you would like to check it out: http://www.beneaththebuckeyetree.com/dapper-dressed-up-pumpkins/ Thanks so much for sharing these!
Thanks for sharing! Yours turned out great!
That blue one came out AMAZING! so easy and so pretty! can’t wait to try next year
Rachel | The Confused Millennial
Thank you!
Those are so super cute…love the Hello Kitty one!
These are so freaking cute! I was just telling my son that I HATE carving pumpkins. I’m definitely doing this next year!!
Definitely much less messy!
These are gorgeous – seriously the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!
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Wow, thanks so much!
These are all fantastic! I love the black one with the gold studs in particular! Pumpkin carving can be so messy, these are such great alternatives!
These are so stinkin’ cute! My son would love the Minecraft one! So creative. Great job, mama!