Minion No-Carve Halloween Pumpkin Craft

Minion No-Carve Halloween Pumpkin Craft is perfect for decorating your home with the kids during Halloween.

Minion No-Carve Halloween Pumpkin Craft

These were a lot of fun to make. They took a bit of time, but I had two wonderful little helpers eager to pitch in whenever they could.

Materials Needed For Your Minion Pumpkins

1. Acrylic paint(colors: blue, yellow, black, and white)
2. Paint Brushes
3. Brown and Black Sharpie
4. Pumpkins
5. Hot Glue
6. Lids from Mason jars 
7. Black Pipe Cleaners

How To Make Minion No-Carve Halloween Pumpkins

• Paint the top half of your pumpkin with yellow acrylic paint.
• I used regular house paint brushes to paint the larger areas.
• I would wait for it to dry and do a second coat so that the yellow is nice and bright (we only did one coat).

• Paint the bottom half of your pumpkin with your blue acrylic paint.
• Again, wait until it’s dry and then apply a second coat (we only applied one coat).

• Acrylic paint dries quickly, so while your pumpkins dry, start creating your minion eyes.
• The girls wanted a one eye minion and a two-eyed minion, so I used a larger mason jar lid for the one-eyed and then two small mason jar lids for the two-eyed minions.
• To create the eyes, flip the mason jar inside lid inside out. You want the white side up so you can draw the eyes on them.
• I then used a black and brown sharpie to draw the eyes. I also dotted a little bit of the white acrylic paint on the eyes to make them look more realistic (see the first picture at the top of the post).

• Using the hot glue gun, seal the white lid inside the silver rim and then glue on your minion.
• With a black sharpie, you can also draw a mouth, or you can use some acrylic paint as we did for our two-eyed minions.

• Using your black acrylic paint and a small brush, paint the stem of your pumpkin and draw a line about 2 inches wide around your pumpkin.
• These are to simulate the minion’s goggles. Also, make sure to add a little bit in between the goggles, or you can use a black sharpie to do this.

• Using a black sharpie, draw your minion’s overalls and pocket with Gru’s infamous villain symbol.  
• Using a black sharpie, draw circles as buttons and dab a little bit of white acrylic paint right in the middle of the buttons.
• With a smaller paint brush, paint some yellow on top of the blue overall area about 4 inches wide halfway on your pumpkin.

• To create the minion’s hair, you can either poke holes into your pumpkin and stick your pipe cleaners in, or you can glue them on.
• We chose to glue them on because we want our pumpkins to last until next month for our youngest daughter’s birthday party.

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Did you paint or carve your pumpkins this year?

 

 

 

*Originally Published October 29th, 2013*