Say hello to your new favourite Fall craft project! Pumpkin painting look set to enjoy a huge surge in popularity this year, and it couldn't be easier to try at home! We've put together this step by step guide for you to try decorating pumpkins with modern floral motifs. Designer Becki Clarke has actually used dual tip marker pens and ceramic pumpkins in this guide but you can easily swap these for acrylic paints and thin paintbrushes, plus real pumpkins! In our step by step tutorial with photos, you'll learn how to create three different pumpkin painting ideas, one stroke at a time.
We love any excuses to get creative in the run up to Halloween (for more fun craft projects, head to our easy Halloween crafts for kids) but Becki's DIY painted pumpkins will also give your home a cosy handmade revamp all Autumn. They'll make a beautiful table centrepiece for Thanksgiving too. If you love to get creative with paints, you might also like our other projects: painted plant pots and acrylic painting guide. Or treat yourself to some new supplies and read our guide to the best acrylic paints.
How to paint pumpkins – step by step
Supplies
- Ceramic Pumpkins, available from Hobbycraft
- Dual tip marker pens, available from Hobbycraft
DIY painted pumpkins tips
- These techniques can be applied using Acrylic, Posca or gouache paint as well as illustrative markers.
- You can rough out where you motifs will go using a pencil
- Have a practice on a sheet of paper before you work onto the ceramics