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DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Stuffed Pumpkin Finger paint Craft

Even the youngest crafters can make this project.  It's great for the children in the baby room or toddler room in a daycare to make and hang from the ceiling.

You can add a Halloween jack-o'-lantern face with black paint, marker or black construction paper.

Materials:

  • paper
  • scissors
  • stapler
      
  • finger paint  (or tempra paint and brush) in orange (and green if you have it)
      
  • cotton balls or shredded newspaper
      
  • IF HANGING:  short piece of string, wool or ribbon
      

Directions:

  • print two copies of the template (or just draw two pumpkins freehand but make them the same size).  Do not cut out yet.
      
  • Let the children paint the templates with finger paints or a brush and tempra paint
      
  • Allow to dry.
      
  • Cut out the pumpkins (adults will need to help with this)
      
  • Staple all the way around the edge of the pumpkins , leaving an opening at the top
      
  • Stuff pumpkins with shredded paper (kids age 3+ love to help with this step).
      
  • Finish stapling the pumpkins closed
      
  • staple a short piece of string to the top to hang from the ceiling

 

Templates:

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
     
  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

 

Template      (B&W)

 

 

Printable Version of these instructions