Carving a pumpkin is a messy job that I usually just enjoy watching my hubby take care of. I did that again, but I decided to salvage the seeds and get creative because usually I don’t do ‘Jack’ with the seeds. I’m trying to keep these weekly crafts easy and cheap to entice you all to enjoy doing them with your kiddos. Since we all spend money on pumpkins each year…and sometimes they aren’t cheap, you might as well get your money’s worth. I found this fun idea on the web and thought you might enjoy it as well.
Supplies
- pumpkin seeds
- orange, black, and green paint
- Elmer’s glue
- white sheet of paper (I used card stock…I love card stock paper!)
1. Separate the pumpkin seeds from the stringy pumpkin.
2. Wash the seeds and then lay them on a plate or pan to dry. ( I first put them on a paper towel, but as they were drying the paper towel was sticking to the seeds.)
3. To make it easy for the kids I covered 3 plates with tinfoil and put seeds on each of the plates with the color of paint.
4. Paint the seeds! I used finger paint because I thought it would be easier to just let my little girl mix the seeds around in the paint. Depending on what your child would like, you could let them paint each one with a paint brush, because really you only need one side painted. (The green finger paint wasn’t dark enough so we had to paint the stem seeds again.)
5. After painting all the seeds, spread them out on the plate to allow them to dry.
6. Sketch a picture of ‘Jack’ and glue the seeds on.
Pretty simple and he turned out cute! Excuse me…SHE turned out cute. My daughter insisted that it was a girl. 
Have a fun and Happy Halloween!
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I should have paid attention to the paper towel part! We are doing this project today right after I get the seeds unstuck…neighbor boy is coming to help, should be fun! Thanks for the idea Aubrey!
What a great idea to us all those pumpkin seeds!
I wish I would have known about this great project a few days ago. We saved our seeds to make Cinnamon Sugar seeds and they didn’t turn out that well (and yes, I made the mistake of the paper towel too – the ones I could salvage I moved to wax paper). Great idea, Aubrey!
Cute! you are so creative. That looks fun. We are at my sisters and going to do dinner in a pumpkin friday. I will save the seeds and let the kids go to town.
i guess i should probably go get some pumpkins now….
xo
Great pix! I wanted to add alittle trick of my own about toasting the seeds for a snack….I use BUTTER flavored Pam Spray and sprinkle them with a little Lawry’s Salt. My kids love them!
I am going to be toasting some tonight, I will have to try that, I happen to have both those items