6 Creative No-Carve Halloween Pumpkin Decoration Ideas

Everyone knows that Halloween is all about spiced beverages, savory recipes, and jack-o’-lantern preparation. And it goes without saying – a vast variety of pumpkin decorations. Many of us lack pumpkins CARVING SKILLS and we end up making a huge mess of pumpkin innards and our mood of course. Whether you are aware or not it is not necessary to go the pumpkin carving route, there are many creative no-carve pumpkin ideas to have the whole neighborhood talking.

The bright orange seasonal staple – pumpkin is decorated with stickers, ribbon, paint, faux flowers and more to make your front porch, as well as your home interior, look stunning. The various ways of pumpkin decorating ideas include painting pumpkins for Halloween, converting pumpkins into larger-than-life candy corn, cats, and caterpillars. To make a folk art pumpkin, you can use an apple corer to make beautiful pumpkin designs in a pinch or add lace and metal. Dress your pumpkins with buttons, rhinestones, dried fruit, and more for a unique twist on your pumpkin decorating.

Here are some amazing Halloween pumpkin decorations ideas that need no carving:

Crayon Drip Pumpkin

This pumpkin decorating idea is from the latest trend of this year. For creating this look, all you need to do is take out the paper wrapper from crayons and cut the crayons into small bits (make use of leftover crayon pieces from your old art kit). Now place crayons near the pumpkin stem one at a time, and with a low heat hairdryer just melt them. As they start melting, you can move the pumpkin around to drip it all over. Just repeat this exercise around the whole pumpkin and keep it dry properly.

Easy Map Tack Pumpkins

Are you trying to involve the little ones in Halloween pumpkin decorations? Then check out this easy-peasy pumpkin decorating idea for your toddler(s). Many of us have extra stationery items lying in the attic for future use. This is the time to make use of all your old office supplies cleverly. You can utilize colorful map tack pumpkins creatively. Just paint a pumpkin in any of your favorite solid colors and let it dry totally, now pin map tacks all over the pumpkin’s surface.

Splash Paint Pumpkins

This pumpkin decorating idea is really exciting as you can make it work with any color you love. First of paint your pumpkins in a single solid color and let them dry completely. After that just blend water with acrylic paint until it becomes a bit of heavy cream in thickness. Take some paint on a craft brush to coat the paint and give your brush a light tap. Do this repeatedly over the whole surface of the pumpkin in order to create the paint splatters all over.

Pumpkin at Spa

Even pumpkins have the right to use a little me time, isn’t it? To give your pumpkin a spa-going look, first paint a “face mask” on a real or faux pumpkin. Then leave spaces to make nose and mouth. Now, keep it aside to dry. Cover the pumpkin head with a decorative shower cap and pin it in place with some pins. All that is left is to make the cucumber eyes – you can print images from the internet of cucumbers and glue them on. This is one of the cute pumpkin ideas to decorate with a difference.

Cross Stitch Pumpkin

This Halloween pumpkin decoration idea is a bit demanding but worth it. First of all, download some prints of cross stitch pumpkin templates online or you can even create your own if time and skill permits. Now paste the template on a faux or real hollowed pumpkin. By using a tool, start to punch holes through the pink holes on the paper template piercing through the pumpkin. Then, remove the template and use a needle as well as embroidery thread to create those “X” patterns in the middle of the dots.

Pumpkin called “Mini Spider”

Are you looking for scary pumpkin decorating ideas to give your Halloween tabletop a ghostly look? If not, then choose to add some creepy crawler to your tabletop this year. It’s very easy to make, start by removing the stem from a small pumpkin and paint the entire thing with glossy black paint, then allow it dry for some time. Now, craft it yourself or buy a floral wire of eight equal-length pieces and poke four wires on each side of the pumpkin. Then, bend each wire two times to make the legs. By making use of hot glue or craft glue, fix some googly eyes on the top of the pumpkin.

Take Away

There are many pumpkin decorating ideas for people of all ages, especially toddlers. You can make your festive season a special one by engaging your kid in decorating pumpkins with you. All the above-mentioned ideas are really fun when elders and toddlers work together to decorate their homes with pumpkins during this festive season.