No Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas
Halloween Pumpkin Decorations Without Carving & The Mess
I know that you have young children in the house. I know that your number one priority is to protect them at all times from harm of any kind. I also know that you love celebrating Halloween because it is fun, because it brings fond memories from your own childhood and because you know that your children will enjoy it, as well. And how do I know all that about you even though we have not met? I know all that because I am in the same boat called “Parenthood.” I too have young children whom I will protect at all cost and we love celebrating Halloween.
If, however, I am completely off the mark and you do not, after all, fit the bill because you do not have young children who are in need of your protection and celebrating Halloween is not what you do, I beg your pardon and ask that you please forgive my mistake. However, in spite of my silly error I will dare to ask that you continue reading this article so that you might be able and willing to pass the information on to others who may benefit from it.
Very young children tend to be quite happy to simply stand by at the safe distance that was pre-established for them by moms and dads watching their parents or older siblings carve pumpkins. It is actually delightful to observe the candid fascination and unbridled excitement that is registered on their little faces. By the time the following Halloween season comes along these young children have grown and matured by twelve months and parents are chagrined to discovered that the same children that were happy spectators the previous year are now fighting to participants.
Allowing children to take an active, hands-on role in pumpkin carving is a scary prospect to protective parents. And these parental fears are very legitimate because pumpkin carving tools are sharp and can cause a whole lot of damage. After all, imagine what tools that cut through a pumpkin’s tough skin can do to a child’s tender skin.
Parents! Please put away all your pumpkin carving tools and I will show you a safe and a worry-free way for you and your children to prepare a pumpkin that will attract and welcome the neighborhood trick-or-treaters onto your front porch. What I am proposing is that you decorate your pumpkins this year rather than carve them as you had done in the past.
The following are a few child-friendly pumpkin decorating ideas:
1. Take a pumpkin, paint on the eyes. Glue on two buttons for the pupils, a carrot for the nose and an inflated small pink balloon where the mouth should be. Put on a baseball cap and you have got yourself a pumpkin kid who is blowing bubble gum.
2. Cut multi-colored tissue into two inch squares and paste them in doubled layers onto the pumpkin’s surface. Whether you select geometric or random designs the results will be bright and cheerful.
3. Create an entire family of pumpkins and you can even name them. Place a small pumpkin over a large one with a large bright leaf between the two and you’ve got the head and the body. Use pine needles or strands of yarn to create the hair, buttons or large seeds for eyes, leaves for eyelashes, a large button or a small pinecone for the nose and a lipstick mark for the mouth. You can add any other decoration such as bows, scarves, and ribbons or you can paint decorative designs and you have got yourself the first member of your pumpkin family.
May this coming Halloween season inspire creativity and bring on bucketfuls of enjoyment for you and your children.
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