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While carving pumpkins is spooktacularly fun, it’s not incredibly kid-friendly. To be honest, cutting up pumpkin for dinner is a tough ask sometimes, so ditch the knives and whip out the paintbrush instead.

Painting pumpkins for Halloween is a freakishly fun way to get into the spirit of the day, without having to dial up the creepy factor. The shape of pumpkins means they’re easily transformed into fun, rather than frightening creations. For these pumpkin decorations, you can either use a real pumpkin, or if you want to keep them use craft pumpkins.

9 Halloween Painted Pumpkin Ideas For Kids

From fingerprint freehand to elaborate, detailed designs, it’s time to raid the craft cupboard, and get cracking on these Halloween painted pumpkin ideas.

Cookie Monster Painted Pumpkin

This gorgeous cookie-loving creation is super quick work for maximum impact. Blue spray paint, styrofoam balls and a bit of hot glue gun action and this guy could be greeting trick or treaters on your front porch. Full tutorial over at hello, Wonderful.

Cookie Monster Painted Pumpkin

Painted Fingerprint Pumpkins

No need to even dig out the paintbrushes for this one. Just use thumbprints and dots to create ghostly shapes, eerie eyeballs and spooky skulls just like Handmade Charlotte.

Painted Fingerprint Pumpkins

Harry Potter Painted Pumpkin

Halloween is all about magic so this adorable painted pumpkin from Heart Song Press is just the ticket for a bit of hocus pocus and a whole lot of fun.

Harry Potter Painted Pumpkin

Minions Painted Pumpkins

Another impressive no-carve pumpkin option is a gaggle of minions. The very clever Crafty Morning made the goggles from coke cans – genius!

Minions Painted Pumpkins

Unicorn Painted Pumpkin

This gorgeous creature is a showstopper, but it’s deceptively simple. Better Homes & Gardens used a faux pumpkin, spray paint, fake flowers, air dry clay and decals to craft this beautiful unicorn pumpkin.

Unicorn Painted Pumpkins

Pikachu and Pokeball Painted Pumpkins

The Pokemon craze isn’t taking a hike anytime soon so Happiness Is Homemade found a way to combine it with Halloween. These have been crafted using faux pumpkins, so they can be used year after year.

Pokemon Painted Pumpkins

Toy Story Painted Pumpkins

You’ve got a friend in Halloween with this impressive Woody and Buzz painted pumpkins by As The Bunny Hops. A base coat of white gives the perfect canvas for these adorable decorations.

Toy Story Painted Pumpkins

Shiba Painted Pumpkins

Give your doorstep a super cute Halloween makeover, by including your pooch in the pumpkin fun. Hello Hoku based her designs on shibas, but you can use your family pet as inspo.

Shiba Painted Pumpkins

Bunny Painted Pumpkins

Bring in a whole new pumpkin flavour by using butternut pumpkins. They lend themselves to being painted to looking like bunnies – how adorable! Full tutorial at Handmade Charlotte.

Bunny Painted Pumpkins

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  • It’s a clever idea, but honestly the article I just finished reading was talking about the average cost of groceries per week and how expensive it all is and all I can think of is what a waste of food. No I won’t be doing this for Halloween. Not sure I’ll even get a chance to take my son trick or treating as I’m working and hubby is 100% against it.

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  • What wonderful pumpkins have been designed and shown on here – one would have to be fairly artistic and capable to do what I have seen. I suppose that the pumpkins could be used again or if not, at least the meat inside would still be capable of being cooked and eaten in the usual way.

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  • Wow! This is a clever idea. The part when the writer mentioned how hard it is to cut a pumpkin, I was like, “Yep! Super relate!”.

    I love the cookie monster, minions and shiba ones. I also love the idea of not using a real one and just buy something from the craft store that we can reuse next year. I wonder if there’s a bare pumpkin at Spotlight or Kmart.

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  • Wow these are all truely amazing and a piece of art. Some people are so creative. My favourite would have to be Cookie Monster, he is fantastic and so well done. What a great idea and addition for Halloween if you celebrate. Kids will go nuts when they see it. It’s so cool

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  • The Shiba Inu pumpkins are adorable!! Definitely my favourite

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  • WOW….these look amazing. Some people are just so talented

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  • The minions ones are my favourite – made me laugh!

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  • I’ve never heard of painting pumpkins, only cutting out faces.

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  • These are some very creative ideas but I don’t celebrate Halloween and never will. I do think if you don’t want to celebrate it, then you shouldn’t have your property or vehicle vandalised especially when it’s on your property that is fenced off. Midnight last year I was woken to a loud noise. In the morning I found eggs had been hurled at my car which was under my car port.

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  • Honestly, what’s the point? Don’t try to sugar coat Halloween. I’m 100% not in support of the European/ American tradition. It’s not even an Australian thing. But making pumpkins that don’t even look like pumpkins anymore just seems silly.

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  • How awesome. Some very crestive ideas. Not really into Halloween to be honest.

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  • Wow these are so creative, I love love love these. I want one of each for my house.

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  • OMG, these are just brilliant. Each and every one of them. Well done.

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  • Love Halloween craft and projects; such fun!


    • Cookie Monster and Minions are favourites!

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  • Omg I just love all of them

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  • Love these painted pumpkins and the children will love being fully involved with doing them too.

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  • These are very creative. My kids would love them!

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  • How cool are these! They seem super easy to re create as well. Love crafting ideas!

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  • Wow! these are amazing. I’m so impressed. The Harry Potter one is very clever, but I do love the unicorn too.

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  • It was the minions for me!

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