Sometimes you just don’t want to carve a pumpkin. You want to avoid the mess of gutting a gourd and cleaning up pumpkin guts and soggy pumpkin seeds. Or you don’t want sharp objects in little hands or really sharp objects in bigger hands. And quite possibly you don’t have the sculpting talent to pull it off, but mostly likely you don’t want the mess and you don’t want the cleanup of carving a pumpkin. Plus, they get rotten quickly and then you have the smell of rotting pumpkin on your porch, stoop or even in your house.

Well, I say avoid all that nonsense and paint you pumpkin for Halloween or Fall. And when I say paing, ‘m being very general here. You certainly can use paint to decorate you pumpkin, but you can also use Sharpie markers, to draw on your pumpkins or glitter in some cases, or just use stickers for a quick and painless pumpkin turned jack-o-lantern. Here are some creative pumpkin decorating ideas you can try. Most of these ideas are easy and even your small children can get involved it the fun of transforming an ordinary pumpkin into a frightening jack-o-lantern or a humorous pumpkin face. A few of these pumpkin painting designs are for more adventurous crafters and DIY people, but we tried find something for everyone. And since the pumpkin are not carved you can use them for table centerpieces.

Painted Minion Pumpkin

Gotta love the nose as a pumpkin stem for Gru.

Day of the Dead Painted Pumpkin

Simple Painted Pumpkins

Easy designs and a nice message for a Happy Halloween.

Totally Creepy, Very Large Pumpkin Painting

Boo Painted in Reverse with Black Paint on this Pumpkin

Monsters, Inc. Painted Pumpkin

Sully looks great.

Roses Painted on a Pumpkin

This is a work of art. Sad to see it rot away one day.

A Frightfully Good Painting

Halloween never looks so good as on this pumpkin.

Silhouettes on a Pumpkin – Great Idea!

Classic Jack Skellington Painted Pumpkin

Painted Polka Dots on a White Pumpkin

Save the Knife, Paint a Pumpkin

Angry Birds Pumpkin Painting Idea

Big Eye painted on a Pumpkin

Here’s looking at you!

Screaming Pumpkin Paint

Stylish Painted Pumpkins

Trick or Treat? and Boo!

Wow. The Art of Painting Pumpkins – Source

 

Grumpy Cat Pumpkin

Bloody Pumpkin with Knife included in Pumpkin

The Pumpkin Penguin

Ninja Turtle Pumpkin Painted Power

Starry, Starry, Night on a Pumpkin

Van Gogh would have been proud.

Not Painted, but Flowered.

Interesting idea to glue flowers to your pumpkin.

Nemo as painted pumpkin, with fins.

Pug Pumpkin

Tin Man from Wizard of Oz as a Pumpkin

Cheshire Cat Painted Pumpkin Idea

Painted Pumpkin for Star Wars fans

R2-D2 Painted Pumpkin

Another painted droid.

That is one hairy pumpkin of Chewbacca

C3-PO in gold.

Stormtrooper Painted Pumpkin

Um…Princess Leia Painted Pumpkin?

Of course, a Darth Vader Painted Pumpkin would have to be here.

Master Yoda as a pumpkin

Shrek Painted Pumpkin

Pinocchio Painted Pumpkin with Growing Stem Nose

The Grinch Painted on a Pumpkin

Doughnut Painted Pumpkins

Paint Your Pumpkins with Watercolors

Mercer Mayer’s LIttle Critter Pumpkin

Cat in the Hat Painted Pumpkin

Blue pumpkins means a painted smurf.

Captain Underpants in Pumpkin Form

What? Duck Dynasty Painted Pumpkin with beard?

We have to have a Charlie Brown pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin Painted

The Trump Pumpkin

President Donald Trump Painted Pumpkin with wig.

Gumball Painted Pumpkin

Mickey Mouse Pumpkin with Ears

Painted Spongebob Pumpkin with Gary

Olaf the snowman seems like an easy idea for stacking painted pumpkins

Using a plant pot and some creativity, you get an ice cream cone painted pumpkin.

Or a double scoop?

Or even a triple scoop?

Hedgehog painted pumpkin animal

And, finally, you can make a Pumpkin Spice Latte Painted Pumpkin

Thank you for making it to the end. Please let us know what crazy and creative painted pumpkin ideas you come up with this Halloween!