Halloween is a celebration of evil spirits. It can be seen not only at costume shows, but also at home. However, it is necessary to specially prepare for such an event: make decorations with your own hands, crafts.
Pumpkin is the main attribute of Halloween. Before you start decorating the interior, you should determine if there are cracks or rotten places on the vegetable so that the pumpkin will last longer, please the household and guests.
Pumpkin heroes of fairy tales and beasts
It is believed that the pumpkin should be a terrible attribute of the holiday, but this is not the case. If you have kids in your house, then it is better to make kind and positive animals or heroes of fairy tales..
To decorate a good pumpkin, you need to paint it in a certain tone, let the vegetable dry out, glue the eyes, nose, antennae of the fairy tale character from a sheet of cardboard or paint them with paints.
To decorate the bat, paint the pumpkin with matte black paint and glue paper wings to the vegetable.
Halloween glamor: painted pumpkins
If your company will consist of the fairer sex, we recommend creating an atmosphere of dark glamor. You should take pumpkins and paint them in black, pink, red and other tones, wait for the paint to dry and sprinkle glitter on the vegetables.
Pumpkins look unusual and interesting, which are painted in a natural color with glued buttons of different sizes and tones..
They can be placed both randomly and in the form of words, and a bow or a flower of satin ribbons can be added to the tail of the vegetable.
Halloween pumpkin decoration for kids
A pumpkin can be designed not only in the form of a fairy-tale character, but also to make a small or large animal out of it. For example, for a caterpillar, take 6 small round pumpkins and paint them in a light green tone. When the vegetables are dry, stick eyes and antennae made of cardboard or felt on the caterpillar’s head.
Decorate the girl caterpillar with a bow or wig, and put on a hat for the boy. Arrange the pumpkins in a sinuous manner, as if the caterpillar is moving. After Halloween, such an animal can be left in the garden, so that it resembles a holiday and further decorates the territory of the playground..
In addition, the pumpkin will look great in the form of candy or cake. To make candy, paint the pumpkin with bright colors, and come up with an ornament on top. Pumpkin cake should also be brightly colored in different colors and put vegetables on top of each other of different sizes.
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Cutting out the ornament on the pumpkin
For those who have creativity, there is the possibility of creating an original decoration – a carved pumpkin. The work, of course, is painstaking, but the result will exceed all expectations. After the pattern or ornament is ready, the vegetable is covered with paints..
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