Decorate Pumpkins With Sharpies

Sharpies are quickly becoming the pumpkin decorating medium of choice for moms who want to avoid the sticky messy aftermath of pumpkin carving.

Decorate pumpkins with sharpies. Craft pumpkins from michaels. Easy to apply permanent marker art sticks with your jack o lantern through wind and rain and allows even the youngest artists to participate unlike that traditional halloween method of slashing into the gourd with a sharp ungainly knife. I found the i had the best results when i was decorating the pumpkins with sharpie markers.

Permanent markers really adhere to the pumpkin skin. Much like last year s pumpkin decorating post there is no need to wield any sharp objects which will help your pumpkins last longer too. The raven sharpie pumpkins.

All you need for this simple pumpkin decorating diy is the following. Last year my then two year old had a blast decorating a batch of those super mini pumpkins i think they re actually gourds. If you use regular markers they will smudge and rub right off.

The surface of a pumpkin is kind of like a white board. The difference in the scale of the pumpkins created a great look when they were clustered together. Part of the series.

Marker decorated pumpkins are suitable for decor. The raven drawing may be a little out of my own artistic range but i love the spider web and the excerpt from edgar allan poe s own works although if you have younger kids you might want to use some choice lines from nightmare before christmas or it s the. Decorating pumpkins with sharpies gives you a lot of freedom when it comes t.

I started looking in our pumpkin archives and realized we have quite a little library. Craft paint in case you want to paint them any color. We did let him use a sharpie on a couple but his fine motor skills are above average for his age and he was supervised closely.