Make Monday: Bubble Wrap Painted Pumpkin!

Today's craft is a bubble wrap painted pumpkin. As always, we had a lot of fun making this project and it decorates the house nicely for the season.

Supplies

Orange, Yellow, and Red Finger Washable Finger Paints
Scissors
Kitchen mixing bowl
White card stock paper
Pencil or marker
Bubble wrap used found in packaging
Black felt fabric
Green or brown construction paper
Glue

Instructions

To prepare for the project, I first used a medium sized kitchen bowl to turn upside down to trace the circle. Using scissors, I cut out the white card stock circle. Meanwhile, I took a large piece of bubble wrap, added a mixture of orange, red, and yellow finger paints onto the side of the bubbles. I laid the white circle down onto the paint and then folded the bubble wrap in half. Judah then walked and hit the bubble wrap to move the paint around onto the paper. We then removed the paper and hung to dry. We made several circles at one time while the paint was out.

The next day once the orange circles were dry, we finished our project. Mommy cut out some mouth and eye shapes from the black felt and helped Judah glue them onto the circle. We then cut and glued on green stems for the top of the pumpkins. Our finished project hangs on the dining room wall as a nice display.

Lessons Learned

Judah really enjoyed playing with the bubble wrap and finger paints. We did spread out our project on the tile kitchen floor to minimize mess. Judah also found tracing the kitchen bowl an interesting technique as we talked about shapes in things. While cutting can be for older kids, Judah helped glue on the jack-o-lantern mouth and eyes.