painted pumpkins

it was one of those busy weekends.  helping at school for the fall festival.
so, since we didn't have time to carve pumpkins, we painted them!
and it was so much fun, we might not be carving anymore...

friday after school we headed out back, it was beautiful outside.
and so relaxing sitting there with the kids painting their pumpkins.
after awhile i got the itch to paint and so i offered to help ella with her stripes.

it was really calming sitting there painting with her.
i may have to get my own pumpkin to paint next year!
john started painting different colors and then ended up painting the whole thing black.
he just couldn't stop painting...

andrew painted a cardinal on his pumpkin.
and christopher painted a face...

i only had a couple bottles of acrylic paint...black and blue.
and tons of poster paint.
the acrylic definitely worked better on the pumpkins.
so, i will buy more of it for next year.

happy halloween!!