Find (or make) a glittery paint and pour enough over the top of your pumpkin that just a little drips down the sides. Let it dry, and you have a dramatic, glamorous, glitter-drip painted pumpkin.
Whether you’re a Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon fan, abstract faces use funky colors and shapes, have displaced facial features, and offer a wildly different take on the classic Jack-o-lantern composition.
Paint your pumpkin one solid, metallic color as a base, like bronze or silver. Then, drip a little paint in a contrasting color over the top. Let it dry, roll it onto its side, and drip another contrasting color over that side. Repeat once more, and you have one cool pumpkin.
Paint your pumpkin with one solid color (or in stripes of varying colors), then sprinkle it with shiny confetti.
Decide what general image you want to paint (like a Jack-o-lantern face or a toothy monster), then paint it using small, geometric shapes to make each feature up, creating a mosaic tile effect.
You probably never associated pumpkins with popcorn buckets, but this idea is pretty cute. Paint the stripes of your pumpkin in alternating pink and white, then add a white circle on the front with the words POP CORN. Glue lots of popcorn on the “open” part of the “bucket” on the top.
Unless you have real gold leaf laying around, choose a gold-like paint that resembles it. Paint your pumpkin this solid color, stem and all, and it will look like your pumpkin is made of gold.
Wet some feathers and stick them around the sides of your pumpkin. Paint a mix of colors over and around the feathers, then pull the feathers off. You’ll have the bright pumpkin skin color showing through in detailed feather designs.
Pumpkins are pretty round, as are caramel apples. More importantly, they’re both staples of fall. To make this one, paint your pumpkin green, then drip a brown caramel color over the top. Paint the pumpkin’s stem white, and it’s just like you have a massive, caramel-covered apple.
Skeletons painted on pumpkins are already cool, but you’ll offer an even cooler effect if you paint one using glow-in-the-dark paint.
Collect some seasonal flowers and clip off the stems. Glue them around your pumpkin in a diagonal sash.
Painted pumpkins already offer countless possible designs, but if you add pipe cleaners, too, your painted pumpkins can become 3D masterpieces. Imagine making your Jack-o-lantern’s eyebrows with black fuzzy pipe cleaners, for example.
