Halloween Art: No Carve Colorful Pumpkins!
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After how the awesome Aunt Peaches easily decorated colorful patchwork pumpkins, I knew I had to try the technique out for myself. And here's my resulting pumpkin. Isn't she lovely?
(And it only took a couple of minutes for me to decorate her!)
(And it only took a couple of minutes for me to decorate her!)
How to Create Colorful, No Carve Pumpkins
Wanna know the secret? I used oil pastels. Yup! When I was younger, these were one of my favorite mediums because they drew like super saturated, creamy crayons. Plus, their colors were simply divine.
(Fun fact: This is the same batch of oil pastels that I had since high school. Whoa. I know.)
Chuck was more interested in sorting the oil pastels than using them. Oh well! At least he enjoyed painting his pumpkin with gold and green glitter paint
. 
Now, the big problem with oil pastels is that they smear. Big time. This wouldn't be a problem if you're don't plan on touching your pumpkins. I was so inspired by the colors that I ended up using oil pastels on other things we collected from our previous nature walks.
And Chuck loved the colors so much that he kept wanting to touch everything. I knew the pumpkin would eventually go bad, but I wanted to somehow preserve these Kandinsky-esque rocks. So I tried a couple of techniques to stop the oil pastels from smearing.
How to prevent your oil pastels from smearing
Method 1: Hair SprayI bought some AquaNet Hairspray because I read online that it would prevent oil pastels from smudging. It totally did NOT work for me. (Although it did give my items a nice smell.)
Method 2: Mod Podge
Winner! Turns out simply painting Mod Podge
onto everything using these brushes totally did the trick.Now we have some lovely fall artwork to adorn our home. (And I seriously contemplating buying a whole bunch of rocks, decorating them, and using them to landscape our front yard. Wouldn't that be super cool?)
If you're looking for other ways to use oil pastels with your children, check out these posts:
And if you're looking for another super cool, no-carve way to decorate your pumpkins, check out Meri Cherry's cool Halloween Pumpkin Party Post.
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