This is a really easy, and really fun little craft for you to make for your kids leading up to Halloween. The idea came from last year's Halloween pumpkin fiasco. We let our son paint one pumpkin, and help choose the template for carving the rest. Well after all the pumpkins had been carved, he wanted them changed. Yea, that wasn't going to happen. So I've come up with a solution. A felt pumpkin with lots of different eyes, noses and mouths that he can play with to make different faces. It was so easy and cheap to make, and I got it done super fast! Here is how I did it...
What you'll need:
-Felt squares in orange, green and black (or whatever color pumpkins you want to make!)
-A roll of velcro (you can find this for cheap at your local craft store)
-Scissors (because no craft is complete without cutting something you didn't mean to!)
-Hot glue gun
Next, using the orange cut out the shapes of some pumpkins. Then cut out some different shapes for eyes, noses and mouths using the black (or again, whatever colors you want to use for your pumpkins!).
Then using the green cut a little stem for the top of the pumpkin. While you're at all this cutting, go ahead and cut some of the velcro into small strips.
Using the hot glue, attach the stem to the top of the pumpkin and let it dry while you get on with the next task.
Now glue all of those velcro pieces onto the cut outs of the eyes noses and mouths.
And VIOLA! Once all the glue is dry it's all done and ready for it's face!
or this...
And your kids will love putting all the different shapes on the pumpkin to make different faces!
And there you have it, a really incredibly easy, super frugal craft your kids are going to have so much fun with for Halloween!
Have fun! ~ Miranda
