19 Creative Classroom Pumpkin Decorating Ideas
If you’re looking for some fun, no-carve classroom pumpkin decorating ideas for the fall season this post is for you. Check out some ideas for fingerprint pumpkins, book characters and easy ideas that do not include paint! You can find ideas that include real pumpkins and faux pumpkins too!
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Fingerprint Pumpkins
Here’s a great idea for younger children like preschoolers, kindergarten students and 1st grade students. Have students dip their fingers in acrylic paint and then they can create cute ghosts, pumpkins, spiders or even daisies. Check out some fun ideas below.
Ghost Fingerprint Pumpkins
Have students dip their thumbs in white paint and then when it dries, they can add the eyes and mouth with black paint or even permanent markers. This will be a great activity to work on their fine motor skills too! White ghosts work perfectly for orange pumpkins.
Spider Fingerprint Pumpkins
Black spiders really stand out on a white pumpkin. This one is actually a craft pumpkin. If your class did not take a field trip to the pumpkin patch this year, then purchasing fake ones from your local craft store is another option.
Pumpkin Face Fingerprint Pumpkins
Here’s another idea that would only work on white pumpkins. Students can create adorable little pumpkin faces with their fingerprints.
Daisy Fingerprint Pumpkins
Students can either use their own fingerprints or a round sponge to create cute daisies!
Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest
If you’re looking for some pumpkin crafts with an educational theme, then here’s an idea for you. Challenge students to create a pumpkin based on their favorite characters from books.
Then display the pumpkins along with the book and have students vote on their favorites. This is a great way to get kids excited about reading. Check out some book character pumpkin ideas below.
Lorax Pumkin
This one is based on the Dr. Seuss classic, Lorax. Provide students with googly eyes, felt and pom poms to see what they create.
Harry Potter Pumkin
You could also find some stickers to help student decorate their book character pumpkins
Wonder Pumkin
Encourage your students to bring items that they might have from home to make the finishing touches on their creations!
Simple Classroom Pumpkin Decorating Ideas
If you don’t want to deal with the mess of paint when students are decorating their pumpkins check out these next few creative ideas that are simple, easy and don’t involve a huge mess! Any of these ideas would be fun crafts to do during your class Halloween party.
Mummy Pumpkin
Here’s an easy idea if you don’t want to make a huge mess with paint. All you need for this is googly eyes, crepe paper, athletic wrap or even toilet paper!
Silly Pumpkins
Here’s a super easy decorating idea that doesn’t take a long time and would be easy for younger students. The kids can choose foam stickers from the Jack o lantern decorating kit to make a silly person. Students of any age would enjoy creating these fun pumpkins!
Animal Pumpkin Decorating Kit
Here’s another easy decorating kit and with this one students can create adorable animals with foam stickers.
Creative Pumpkin Painting Ideas
If you’re looking for some unique classroom pumpkin decorating ideas, then you’ll love this next section. Read on to discover a lot of different ways to transform pumpkins that students will have fun with.
Donut Mini Pumpkins
Mini pumpkins are the perfect shape to create little frosted donuts. Have students paint the top half in a frosting color and then add dashes of paint for sprinkles.
Bright Mini-Pumpkins
Here’s a fun idea for little pumpkins that would work well for older children in upper elementary school. Have student paint the entire mini pumpkin a bright color. Then let it dry and have them add unique facial features to add character to their masterpiece.
Unique Classroom Pumkin Decorating Ideas
If you want to try something a little unique in your classroom this year, then you’ll love these next ideas.
Melted Crayon Pumpkins
Isn’t this pumpkin gorgeous? Would you believe it was made with crayons melted with a blow dryer? Kids will be amazed watching the crayons melt before their eyes. Click the link above to see the full instructions.
Woodland Creatures Pumpkins
This craft is super easy, and kids love it. All you need is some, paint, glue and construction paper and your students can create these cute animal pumpkins.
Classroom Pumpkin Decorating Ideas for Elementary Students
Shape Painted Pumpkins
If your students are learning about shapes, then you can have them paint different shapes all over the pumpkin. This is a fun way to enhance your math lesson during the month of October.
Owl Pumpkins
For this one all you need is orange cardstock paper, tissue paper, paint, liquid chalk markers, googly eyes and a hot glue gun.
Fun Character Pumpkin Decorating Kit
Here’s another easy pumpkin decorating idea! Elementary students would love to turn their pumpkins into fun characters like unicorns and monsters. This is a pumpkin decorating kit that would make it a little easier on you. It comes with 10 different animal designs and includes stickers and paint.
Pumkin Decorating Ideas for High School Students
These next ideas are a little more advanced and would work well in a middle school or a high school art class.
Abstract Pumpkin Decorating
Encourage students to play with color and design and abstract shapes to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
Unique Halloween Pumpkins
Have students paint their entire pumpkin a unique color like pink, purple or blue including the stem. Then they can add Halloween art like ghosts, bats and witches. This is a great way to get students in the Halloween spirit while encouraging their creativity!
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