Skip the Carving: 10 Pumpkin Decorating Alternatives

           As Halloween draws near, our little pumpkins are begging to carve all those pumpkins we all have perched on our porches. 

But let’s be real….pumpkin carving, while traditional, is a torturous mess to clean up. Those eewey, gooey insides with their stringy, clingy fibers and slimy seeds will inevitably end up dried up and plastered to your counters and table tops.

If you’d rather spend your time decorating pumpkins than cleaning up pumpkin guts, here are Ten Alternatives Pumpkin Decorating Ideas:

1.    Use some spooky stickers

2.    Draw a face with markers and glue yarn on the top for hair

3.    Paint your pumpkin

4.    Brush a mixture of glue & water on your pumpkin and then sprinkle it with glitter to create a sparkly coating

5.    Poke pipe cleaners into your pumpkin and bend them into fun shapes to create spider legs or bat wings for the sides or pointy devil horns for the on the top.

6.    Use thumb tacks to create designs on your pumpkin

7.    Bling it out using by gluing on sequins and rhinestones

8.    Cover your pumpkin in paper mache strips to make it look like a mummy.

9.    For smaller pumpkins, try wrapping yarn, in autumn colors, round and round them to make it look like a ball of yarn

10.  Choose some pretty leaves from your yard and create a collage of them on your pumpkin using Mod Podge

Here’s to a happy, less messy, Halloween.

Missy