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  Halloween is one of our family's most favorite times of the year. I love the smells, I love the candy and I love dressing my children up. I love creating new Halloween traditions every year for them. Below are some Fun Halloween Pumpkin Painting information to get started painting your pumpkins for your toddler, preschool age children, kindergarten age kids and up. Have fun and a Happy Halloween from our home to yours.  This is a great new tradition to start with your family and your pumpkins will stay good a whole lot longer than a carved pumpkin. Painting is also safer than carving. You could paint cartoons on your pumpkins such as Sponge bob, Blues clues, Dora, or paint ghosts and witches or even your name on the pumpkin. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

Pumpkin Painting: A Halloween Activity For The Whole Family by Pumpkin Painting

A carved jack-o-lantern may very well be the most recognized symbol for the Halloween holiday. But using a sharp knife to carve them is not exactly an activity that everyone, especially the children who are so in love with Halloween, can do.

During a field trip to a pumpkin farm, I discovered a Halloween activity that even the youngest members of the family can participate in.

Pumpkin painting is a fun and safe way to celebrate autumn and Halloween. With just a few supplies: paint, brushes, sealer and your imagination, anyone can transform a plain pumpkin into a whimsical, life-like character.

By tracing a pattern onto the pumpkin, young children can “paint by numbers” and create their own Halloween masterpiece.

The best feature of painted pumpkins is their lifespan. A pumpkin, once carved, will last three to five days at the most before it begins to collapse and rot.

A painted pumpkin, when finished properly, will last four weeks or longer!

And a great way to make your pumpkin work double duty is to paint one side for Halloween. When Halloween is over, turn the pumpkin around, paint some autumn leaves and leave it on your porch for a beautiful Thanksgiving decoration!

JoAnne Westcott is the publisher of the full-color, step-by-step instructional e-guide: Pumpkin Painting, Anyone Can Do It. Really! http://www.ezpumpkinpainting.com

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. This Halloween season we will be featuring many different mom-owned business vendors in our Halloween shops as well as links to many different Halloween contests & sweepstakes that we find. Also, please browse our Halloween Contests & Sweeps over here. We are also having our annual Halloween/Fall Baby Costume Contest starting October 1st, 2007. Enter our Halloween contests & Halloween sweepstakes and You could win one of several prizes! Shop in our Halloween Shops! We have something for everyone!