Spooky Pumpkins

 

Make your Halloween a "spooky" one with scary owl and eyeball pumpkins. Chris will show you how with a little paint and a few supplies you can create your own individual pumpkins that will had fear to your Halloween decorations.

 

Make your Halloween a "spooky" one with scary owl and eyeball pumpkins. Chris will show you how with a little paint and a few supplies you can create your own individual pumpkins that will had fear to your Halloween decorations.

Instructions:

Hoot’n Owl Pumpkin

 

 

 

You will need:

8” artificial pumpkin

Yellow sunflowers

2 large wiggle eyes

Assorted fall leaves – we used maple leaves for the eyes

And slender elongated fall leaves for the wings

Paddle wire

1 large pinecone

1.5” yellow cardstock

Hot glue gun and glue sticks & Pliers

 

1.      For each eye, glue a wiggle eye in center of a flower. Cut petals shorter with scissors and glue eyes to pumpkin. For eyebrows, glue a maple leaf behind each eye.

2.      For beak, hold cardstock square at opposite corners, and fold into a cone shape, glue to hold, then glue to pumpkin between eyes.

3.      For each wing – gather 3 long leaves and wind wire tightly around them to hold them together. Cut off ends just past the wire. Poke a hole in each side of pumpkin with scissors and insert wing, glue in place.

Spooky Eyeball Pumpkin

 

 

 

You will need:

8” artificial pumpkin

Gloss acrylic paints – white, purple, red, black

Tulip Glow in the Dark Dimensional Paint

Paintbrushes – fine line, medium, and fan brush, and sponge brush.

 

{If you buy a white pumpkin you can skip Step 1}

 

1.      Use sponge brush to paint your pumpkin white. You may need several coats, if so, allow to dry between coats.

2.      Use medium brush and purple to paint circle in the middle of the pumpkin.

3.      Use liner brush and black paint to outline eye. Then paint center of eye.

4.      Use liner brush and red paint to make veins outside the iris.

5.      Once all is dry, use glow in the dark paint to highlights veins.  On iris, outline the center of the eye. Use fan brush to pull paint out from the center into the purple area.

 

{Do not spray paint your artificial pumpkin, as the paint will cause the pumpkin to peel, crack or melt.}