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Make Your Own Painted Pumpkins For Fall

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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.
painted pumpkins from Oriental Trading
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.

unfinished ceramic pumpkins
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.

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

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

painted pumpkins on mantel

 

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!

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

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

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About Brandy

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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  2. Mary-The Boondocks Blog says

    These are really gorgeous shades of green and the pumpkins looks really unique painted like that. When you can’t find what you need make it yourself!!

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  6. Marsha says

    Oh my goodness…the possibilities are endless. It is amazing how a pumpkin can be decorated in so many ways. I love the subtle sage green pumpkins. Perfect for neutral colored decor. I would love to pair it up with burlap.

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  7. JaneEllen says

    Love your mantel decorations with the cotton bolls and lambs ear. Hmmm, would love to have set of ceramic pumpkins could paint whatever colors I wanted. Glad for you to get them when you did. I painted a few orange plastic pumpkins from $ tree white, just couldn’t deal with so much orange in our very light gray walls, little bit of coral and more aqua in our living room. Kept decorations more sparse this year. Our l/r is small so too much really makes it look cluttered. Hardly used much of what I had for decorations. Did do more out on our front porch table.
    Your home looks so perfectly decorated, very nicely done.
    Happy week

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  15. Jolena says

    This is my first visit to your blog and so glad I found it! The pumpkins are so pretty. Thanks for sharing. Caught up with you through The Boondocks Blog, Sweet Inspiration Party.

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  16. JoAnne says

    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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  20. Pamela Speers says

    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

      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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  22. Ann says

    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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  23. Kate | The Organized Dream says

    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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