Creative No Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

When fall rolls around and pumpkins start turning up everywhere, my kids and I start thinking about fun and creative pumpkin decorating ideas. I am a big fan of no carve pumpkin decorating ideas since all that creativity lasts longer on a pumpkin that isn’t carved. Also, no carve pumpkin decorating is much more kid friendly than using carving tools. We have done several pumpkin decorating techniques through the years including our acrylic paint pour pumpkins, Keep reading to see how we got creative with these pumpkins and decorated them with acrylic skins. This idea is so fun, easy, and lets you or your kids really spread their creative wings.

Step One: Make Acrylic Skins

If you have no idea what an acrylic skin is or how to make them, then check out my previous post about how to make acrylic skins here. Ever so often, the kids and I will make acrylic skins.  It’s super fun because you are basically just mixing paint and marbling it together.  My kids love to do this and it’s pretty relaxing.  For these pumpkins we used a stash we had laying around.

Step Two: Paint Pumpkins With Base Coat

Before we started decorating our pumpkins, the kids and I each picked out a color of spray paint and painted a pumpkin.  This gave us a nice base coat of paint and let us choose our color scheme. This might be me confessing too much, but I don’t love the color orange. So, I covered it up. You don’t have to use spray paint, but that’s what we did on these. When we did our acrylic paint pour pumpkins, we also painted a base coat, but we used black chalkboard paint on those.

Step Three:  Create Collage Artwork with Acrylic Skins

Grab your pile of acrylic skins and start designing your artwork. As you can see, we had a collection of acrylic skins piling up. Sometimes we would just make them for the fun of mixing paint and seeing how different color schemes look. What kid or mom doesn’t like to play with paint? When you are making acrylic skins, you mix your paint and let it dry, then you are able to preserve that acrylic skin by wrapping it in Saran Wrap and saving it for another project, like pumpkin decorating.

This gray pumpkin is my creation and I just used whole acrylic skins and glued them to my pumpkin. You can trim them into shapes or only use part of one, this is where the creativity happens. To attach your acrylic skin to the pumpkin, simply paint the back side of your acrylic skin with Liquitex Matte Medium and place it on to your pumpkin.

Get creative with your design.  My daughter’s turned out to be the most creative.  She cut her skins and did a fall tree in the daytime on one side and a house at night on the other side.  It’s super cute and creative and I love how she covered the stem. The other pumpkins are just collages of acrylic skins.

Step Four: Display Your Pumpkin Decorating Skills For All To See

Of course, you are going to want to showcase your pumpkins when you are done. Arrange them on your table or in your entryway.  They make a great centerpiece. We used ours in our entryway, but you could find a place to display these beauties almost anywhere in your home, a mantel, a bookshelf, anywhere.

If you liked this idea, check out the artwork we made with acrylic skins here.  Also, here is our other fun pumpkin painting idea here. Check out more fun fall and Halloween decorating ideas below.

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