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Easy Halloween Craft Idea for Kids: Mini Pumpkin Monsters

Easy Halloween Craft Idea for Kids: Mini Pumpkin Monsters

18 Oct

This post was most recently updated on September 22nd, 2019

I thought I’d share a super fun and easy Halloween craft idea to do with your kids: no-carve mini pumpkin monsters!  My 7-year old daughter and her besties had a ball creating these adorable little creatures this past weekend. You won’t see a lot of detailed steps in this Halloween craft tutorial because they are so darn easy to make!

Easy Halloween Craft Idea for Kids…

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easy Halloween Craft Idea

To make this Halloween craft, all you need is a bag of mini pumpkins or gourds, googly eyes, paint, pipe cleaners and mini pom poms.  I wrapped each of the stems in a chenille pipe cleaner for them, and I helped them glue on googly eyes with a glue gun (way to hot for little fingers), but, other than that, the girls didn’t need much help at all.  They came up with an idea that I hadn’t thought of. They asked for tooth picks to make arms and legs!  Clever little ladies, aren’t they?  After some very careful painting ;-), we ended up with a family of cutie-pie monsters!

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easy Halloween Craft idea for Kids mini pumpkin monsters

Of course, being a crafty kid too, I also had to paint a few of my own!  My personal favorite was the one-eyed cyclops :-).  But the purple polka dot couple was  also pretty adorable.  And yes…it was way too much fun.  Therapeutic, actually.

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easy Halloween craft idea for kids

This is a really super easy Halloween craft idea for young kids.  So go buy yourself of a bag of mini pumpkins, grab a few basic craft supplies, and have some fun!

Kerri 🙂

Post-Script: This project was featured at Tip Junkie!

 

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By Kerri, October 18, 2011 Filed Under: Home Decor Tutorials & DIY Projects

About Kerri

Kerri Roche is the owner, editor and voice behind A Pop of Pretty, a Canadian home decorating blog, where she shares her love of modern coastal and cottage home decorating style, from beautiful Newfoundland, on Canada's east coast. Home decorating has always been in her blood, even while earning a Marketing degree and MBA, and working in strategy and planning in a busy ad agency for over a decade. She aims to inspire other style seeking home lovers to decorate their own homes with confidence, by sharing home decorating ideas, shopping tips, and DIY tutorials from her own suburban home and lakeside cottage - all l while juggling the schedules of a world travelling husband, 3 busy and energetic kids (including twins), and a scrappy little Havanese named Finnigan.

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  1. northern style exposure says

    October 20, 2014 at 9:17 pm

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    These are too cute! I heart fall.

  2. Kayla says

    October 15, 2014 at 4:47 pm

    What kind of paint did you use? Acrylic paint or washable marker?
    I”m planning to do this with 10+ kids – from toddlers to elementary school. Is the paint that kid used for decorating pumpkins safe for kids?

  3. Cassie says

    October 1, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    Too cute! I’m featuring these on my blog today (with a link back to you, of course). youreverafterevents.com/blog

    • Kerri says

      October 1, 2013 at 11:22 pm

      Thanks so much!

  4. Cassidy warne says

    October 27, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    Awesomely cute! Absolutely adorable!

  5. Victoria says

    October 23, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    These are so sweet! We’re definitely making these. I also shared them on my blog here: http://www.vixenmade.com/2012/10/10-halloween-crafts-for-kids.html

    • Kerri says

      October 23, 2012 at 8:55 pm

      Thanks so much, Victoria!

  6. Katie says

    October 21, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    These are ADORABLE!! Cute site, I just found you via the For the Kids Linky!

  7. Glenda M says

    October 20, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Cute ideas. Thanks for sharing.

    • Kerri says

      October 20, 2011 at 10:45 am

      Thanks for popping by! ~Kerri, A Pop of Pretty

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