This post for making your own witch pumpkin originally appeared over at See Vanessa Craft as part of her 20 Crafty Days of Halloween.
Ever since I had my two children, Halloween has become one of my absolute favorite holidays. I love to incorporate crafts and activities into our holiday preparations, like these stenciled trick or treat bags, that I can get my kids involved in or that I know they will love. This witch pumpkin is definitely one of those things because, while I did most of the painting, I let them direct what I painted!
We started with two basic items to get started: a pumpkin and a hat.
My daughter chose the paint carefully and ended up with black and orange in both satin and glitter finishes.
We painted the witch hat in the satin paint first…black on the rim and orange on the peak.
Then, we added glitter to the rim for a fun little touch. Originally, the glitter started in striped but quickly changed to the rim of the hat being covered in glitter.
The face was created using some Martha Stewart adhesive stencils and paint. The adhesive stencils are perfect for round objects like the pumpkin.
While our paint dried, we brainstormed on what to use for the witch’s hair. My daughter had a little hair clip she used last Halloween so we just clipped that to the stem of the pumpkin. We placed the finished hat on top and our witch was done.
Be sure to go visit Vanessa over on her blog to see the awesome stuff she shares along with the other projects from the 20 Crafty days of Halloween.
Great job! Next time though be sure & put my baby girl in there with that pumpkin! I love this, as you don’t have to worry about it rotting on the table!!LOL
Haha…sorry we left you with rotting pumpkins.
This is too cute! Love the green hair. Halloween is my favorite holiday too!
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Thanks! I was so thrilled to find that little green hair clip!
that is SOOOO cute! i just might have to steal this idea since the pumpkins we get here are more like bakign ones and not really great for carving… Painting them! Great idea. Emily
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We love doing the painting thing. The pumpkins last so much longer if you don’t carve them.
I have never used Martha Steward craft products before, I will have to check them out!
Oh, I love her brand of paints.
This is so cute!!! I love this and this is something that would be great to make with my daughter! Pinned too!
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Thanks! this was definitely a fun project.
Tooooo CUTE!!! Pinning!! ~Marion
Thanks!
I love how you decorated this pumpkin- great tutorial!!
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Thanks. We definitely had fun with this one.
SUPER cute. the hair is the finishing touch!!
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Thanks. I just about died when I spotted that hair because I knew it would be perfect.
So cute!!!! I really do need to make more time for myself to craft so I can make projects like this. I love the hair on the pumpkin witch, it adds such personality!
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Finding time to craft can be really difficult. I find I just have to put it on the calendar to get it done.
This is SO cute and looks like a lot of fun to make! Great pics too!
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Thanks. We had a ton of fun putting this one together.
That is too cute! I wish I were creative enough to think of something like that!
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Aww thanks!
This is too cute! We plan to do our pumpkins this weekend.
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We did our real pumpkins way too early this year. Hope yours turned out great.
Great job on this. Neat idea!
Thanks! I love that we can use it again next year.
This looks so cute!
Thanks so much.
This is wonderful!! I think I will make this and surprise my granddaughter next week! Thanks for the great idea!
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This would be such a fun thing to do with your granddaughter!
The witch pumpkin turned out really great! Love the color combination you chose!
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Thanks so much for your sweet words.
That is adorable! And so much better than carving a real pumpkin. Our real carved pumpkin is rotting!
Our carved pumpkins rotted so fast this year. I was glad we had some backups like this to display.
That is so cute – I love it and it’s so easy! You definitely have the best pumpkin I’ve seen all season!
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Thanks so much for your sweet words.
The hair is my favorite part!
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Isn’t the hair awesome?! We love it.
So cute. Pinned to my celebrate Fall pin. We have this years pumpkins made….the Witch will be perfect for next year.
Thanks. We love our little witch.
I thought the pumpkin was painted with chalkboard paint at first. LOL
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Haha…we do have some pumpkins painted in chalkboard paint too but this one I bought already black.
Too cute, pinned it to save for Halloween. I thought it was chalkboard too at first. TFS
I can totally see why it looks like chalkboard!
You all did a fantastic job!! She is so cute!
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Thanks so much! I am almost sad to put her way now that Halloween is over.
SOOO cute and soo simple that’s my kind of craft…love it.. thanks for sharing and looks awesome…
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Thanks. It definitely was pretty easy.
OMG that pumpkin witch is just to cute.. I love it.. I need to go find the stuff to make my own!!!
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Thanks! We had such a great time creating her.
I LOVE that, what a great idea!!
Thanks so much!
Love it! Too cute!
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Thanks!