Pumpkin Painting Ideas

Pumpkin painting ideas to decorate for Halloween

If you plan to make a no carve Halloween pumpkin this year, you’ll love these unique pumpkin painting ideas from the roaring jack o lantern pumpkin to simple emoji pumpkins. Many cute painting ideas as well as scary ones!

We've gathered our best pumpkin painting ideas, and they couldn't be cuter. Try a simple design, like writing messages on your pumpkins, or exercise your creativity by embellishing them with jewels and confetti. Decorating your painted pumpkins can even be as easy as printing out scary silhouettes and stamping them on your squash.

Cool pumpkin carvings

Decorating pumpkins is one of the most fun things about happy Halloween on Halloween day. While classic cool pumpkin carvings look great, especially when a candle is lit in them, no-carve pumpkins are becoming more and more popular. Why? They are easy to make and leave a lot of room for painting ideas creativity.

Halloween pumpkin

You can either use a real pumpkin or a craft pumpkin to make it (real ones are great but craft ones you can reuse the next year Halloween day and build upon your collection of painted Halloween pumpkin)

Pumpkin carving ideas

Carving pumpkins is tons of fun and a big part of happy Halloween. But let's get real—not only do you have to clean up sticky pumpkin guts as soon as you’re done carving, you also have to worry about keeping little fingers intact. There is another way to decorate the jack o lantern and other things that doesn't involve sharp objects: painted pumpkins and use this Pumpkin painting ideas application for the ideas.

Yes, painting your pumpkins can get a bit messy when kids are involved, but you can let them go to town with non-toxic paint if you create a pumpkin painting station in your backyard with newspaper covering the lawn and tables. If you’re ready to have the most unique Halloween decorations on the block this year, scroll through for some cute pumpkin painting ideas.