Storybook Pumpkin Project

My daughters school is having a storybook pumpkin decorating contest. The rules are simple: decorate a pumpkin  creatively (no carving or puncturing) like your favorite storybook character. 

My daughter chose 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' as her book & picked "Sally" as her character. 

We used:

• Acrylic paint

• 1 pumpkin

• Glue gun + glue sticks

• Red yard 

• Scissors 

• 1 large poster board 

• Paint brushes 

• Crayons

• Markers 

First we painted the pumpkin all around with Apple Barrel #21973E Summer Sky. This blue pops & is really close to her actual color in the book. 

This took sometime to get the entire thing even. Be sure the pumpkin is dry when you apply new layers or it will peel. Next we added the eyes & features after the blue was dry. 

Then we cut long strands of red yard to make her rag doll hair. Because the glue gun is very hot I glued on the yard to the pumpkin. 

While the pumpkin dried yet again we worked on Sally's dress to attach. We made the neck extra long & thin to stick underneath the pumpkin. 

After it was all colored we cut it out & attached it to the pumpkin.

And this was our finished product for the storybook pumpkin contest.