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BOO! Are you afraid of the dark? These painted glow-in-the-dark pumpkins are here to help lead the way! In the daytime they look just like adorably spooky painted pumpkins, but once night falls their glow-in-the-dark faces appear! Painting pumpkins doesn’t have to be hard – we used circular foam pouncers as stamps to make the process quick and easy.
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When painting pumpkins that we’re going to leave out on the porch or lawn, we always use Folk Art Outdoor Acrylic Paint. It comes in a ton of colors and it’s formulated to withstand the elements so that your painted pumpkins last until Halloween. When we saw this funny-shaped pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, we grabbed it right up – it looks exactly like the skull! Using the skull as the starting point, we added in these baby pumpkins with surprised faces – this trio of painted pumpkins came together in no time! Keep reading for full instructions.
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what you need:
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- Pumpkins
- Folk Art Outdoor Acrylic Paint
- Folk Art Glow Acrylic Paint
- Paintbrush
- Various sponge brushes and pouncers
how-to:
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Step 1
Start by painting the base color on your pumpkin. For this skull pumpkin, we used white. Let dry. Depending on what part of the design you want to be glow-in-the-dark, apply a few coats of the glow paint and let dry again.
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Step 2
For this pumpkin, we started with a grey base coat, let dry, applied a few coats of glow paint, let dry again, and then use the foam pouncer to apply face details with black paint.
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Step 3
For the skull pumpkin, we did a similar method but this time use the round pouncers to make the eyes and nose and then trimmed the end of a foam brush so that it would make a rectangle stamp and used that to make the skull’s mouth.
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Step 4
For this pumpkin, we did the reverse – start with a grey base coat and let dry. Apply the face details with a round pouncer and white paint and let dry again. Next apply glow paint over the face details, and let dry.
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Step 5
To add a little more interest, we used a smaller pouncer to add black pupils over the glow painted eyes. Isn’t he cute?
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This post is sponsored by Plaid Enterprises.