Decorate a Pumpkin for Halloween

The ideas for decorating a pumpkin for Halloween are as endless as the decorating ideas that you can have for your whole house. You can go with something that’s traditional and carve your pumpkin in a jack-o-lantern design or go for a variety of figures like cats, ghosts, bats, etc.  You don’t even have to carve a pumpkin if you don’t know how to; you can just stick a few other pieces into the pumpkin to further accent the haunting effect on your porch.

With regard to the standard jack-o-lantern, you can go for a stitched-up jack as one of the ideas for decorating a pumpkin for Halloween.  This pumpkin would carry around the idea that being tossed by the Headless Horseman is a bruising and bumpy business.  All you have to do is get a large pumpkin and carve it with two circles on the upper half that will be the eyes, and then carve a mouth that resembles stitches.  You then cut a few strips of reflective tape into thin strips and stick them onto the pumpkin in a stitch formation as well.  An eerie glow will be on your pumpkin when kids with flashlights or cars pass by.

Other ideas to decorate a pumpkin for Halloween is to get a template of a spider, a scary cat face or skeleton hands from the Internet.  You then carve your pumpkin, but you’re not using a regular jack-o-lantern pattern.  Depending on what you want, you can carve patterns out of your pumpkin that are scary and frightful, or ones that are cute and happy.  There are many templates for ghouls or scared cats that can be very easy to make, with just a few cuts and scrapes of your pumpkin.

You can also go with ideas to decorate a pumpkin for Halloween like whole pumpkin decorating.  You can use miniature pumpkins and craft foam and make a colony of bats and other scary winged creatures.   You start by painting the pumpkins with black acrylic paint.  You then choose a style of wings and eyes to put on the different pumpkins and cut these from a template on the white craft foam.  Use a hole puncher to make the pupils for the eyes and ears of the bats.  You then attach the ears by taping toothpicks on the back of the ears.  Skewer the back of each wing and push the wings in place.  Finally, hang your bats in the yard or porch.