Make Your Own Painted Pumpkins For Fall

Modified: Nov 5, 2019 · Published: Sep 22, 2017 by Brandy · This post may contain affiliate links.

Make your own painted pumpkins to match your fall decor this year! A quick and easy afternoon project.

Make your own set of ceramic painted pumpkins to match your fall decor this year! A quick and easy afternoon project.

I searched all around this year for the perfect green pumpkins to buy for a bit of fall decor. I went to Target, Michael's, Joanns, and a few other places without much luck. They all had pumpkins, but either the patterns didn't match what I was looking for, they were too expensive, or they weren't the shade of green that I wanted. I even contemplated buying foam ones and painting them myself, but I was afraid that they would just look cheap.

I decided to check Oriental Trading to see what they had in stock and found these sets of unfinished ceramic pumpkins! They come in a set of 3 and had great reviews. I decided to give them a chance and ordered two sets.

Make Your Own Ceramic Painted Pumpkins

acrylic paint for painting ceramic pumpkins

I was happy to find a few paint colors in my stash that I was able to blend to create the shades I was looking for. The sage green is over ten years old, a $.10 clearance bottle from Walmart, but still worked! Just needed to be thinned a little with white.

I added a tiny bit of white to the dark sage and a drop of yellow to the white paint so that the white pumpkins weren't too bright.

One coat gave great coverage and they dried really quickly! A thin coat of clear spray paint and they were ready to display.

I arranged them on my mantel with a few sprays of lambs ear and cotton stems and absolutely love how they turned out! It never ceases to amaze me what I can find at Oriental Trading for my home, my kids' birthday parties and for our craft cupboard!

Here are a couple of other projects that I found using these same Oriental Trading pumpkins. There are so many fun ways to decorate them!

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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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Cleone says

October 01, 2020 at 1:42 pm

Hi Brandy! Love your craft pumpkins! They are lovely on your mantel. Thanks for the link to the Oriental Trading. Never thought to find items like ceramic pumpkins there. I have ordered mine and will be delivered this Monday! So excited to decorate mine and place on the mantel. Thanks so much for sharing!!

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- Brandy says
  
  October 02, 2020 at 10:18 am
  
  Yay! I've had mine for a few years now and love pulling them out in the fall!
  
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The Freshman Cook says

September 19, 2018 at 5:53 pm

These colors are gorgeous! I love how muted and pretty they are. Thank you for sharing at Celebrate It!

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Leslie Clingan says

September 14, 2018 at 5:21 pm

Long time Oriental shopper but never dreamed they would have ceramic pumpkins. Now I know! Love the minty-sagey colors you used, Beautiful.

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Loni says

September 12, 2018 at 10:08 am

I love your color choices, what a beautiful twist on fall! You make me want to decorate in sage!

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- Brandy says
  
  September 12, 2018 at 10:54 am
  
  Thank you so much, Loni!
  
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Julie Briones says

September 12, 2018 at 2:54 am

These look wonderful! And those ceramic pieces look like they are made really well, and still have lots of detail from the mold! Nice! Visiting from Dream Create Inspire!

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- Brandy says
  
  September 12, 2018 at 10:55 am
  
  Thank you, Julie!
  
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Kate | The Organized Dream says

September 09, 2018 at 9:40 am

I love these colors. I used very similar colors last year on these pumpkins and I'm still obsessed with them! I'd love for you to share your pumpkin project at the Make Life Pretty Monday link party beginning tonight at 8 pm! Hope to see you there!

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Ann says

September 09, 2018 at 9:28 am

Your pumpkins look amazing and I luv your color choices! Pinned. I'd luv to invite you to share it with us at Wall to Wall DIY Wednesday, which runs thru Mondays! Best, Ann

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Debrashoppeno5 says

September 09, 2018 at 8:15 am

I love the colors. And how the pumpkins come in various sizes. It makes for a lovely vignette.

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Pamela Speers says

October 03, 2017 at 11:19 am

Could you list the names of the actual paints you used? Who knows, maybe I have that ten year old green already! I have been trying to find nice green shades for something like this for a long time, and I think you nailed it. Brands and names please?

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- Brandy says
  
  October 04, 2017 at 6:55 am
  
  So true! You may just have the same color in your stash!
  
  Darker Green is: PLAID FolkArt #619 Poetry Green (I mixed a little white with it to tone it down)
  Light Green/Blue is: MARTHA STEWART Satin #32022 Cloud
  White: Apple Barrel #20503 White
  
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  - Pamela Speers says
    
    October 04, 2017 at 12:57 pm
    
    Thank you, Brandy, I will go check my paint stash!
    
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farmhouse40 says

October 02, 2017 at 7:44 am

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sherrygcole says

October 02, 2017 at 7:39 am

I love your pumpkins! They are such a beautiful color and I will be featuring them at Totally Terrific Tuesday tomorrow.

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Linda Bass says

October 02, 2017 at 4:25 am

Beautiful ideas thank you for sharing them with us. I'm going to post them. Hugs, Linda on Poinsettia Drive poinsettiadr.com

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JoAnne says

October 01, 2017 at 3:53 pm

Your pumpkins look great - I love the colors. I actually did try painting a dollar store styrofoam pumpkin and it turned out ok but it does look cheap. These are so much better!!

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