NOT everyone wants a scary pumpkin. Not everyone wants to risk the use of their hands carving faces in one either. So we've put together some suggestions for easy pumpkin decorations that you can do in less than an hour and are safe for your children too...

Painted pumpkins

You will need: Poster paint, large sequins/flowers/buttons (we bought ours at Wilkinsons, 85p per packet), glitter, glitter glue (optional) PVA glue.

Bournemouth Echo: Halloween How To: last minute ways to decorate a pumpkin

We went for pretty, but you don't have to - you could use small plastic spiders or bugs as decoration instead of sequins.

First, paint pumpkin in colour/fashion of your choosing. We found gold paint worked best. Use PVA glue to stick on sequins. Sprinkle glitter from a height or use glitter glue to highlight pumpkin ridges. Leave to dry. Display.

Funny face pumpkins

You will need: black felt (self adhesive if you can get it) strong glue, white paper, black ribbon or tape or ric rac

 

 

All you need for this one is some black felt and white paper for the eyes and ribbon or rick rack for the mouth. Glue it on, away you go. If you want them to stack like this you might need to cut a hole in the bottom of the top two pumpkins for added stability, but you could just lean them against a wall instead.

Bandage wrapped pumpkins

You will need: glue, bandages, stick-on eyes or white and black paper.

 

 

Easy as it could be. Wrap pumpkin in bandages, stick on googly eyes (you can buy these at Wilkinsons or just make some from black and white paper).

We've added loads more pumpkin ideas to our pumpkins board on Pinterest - and we'd love to see pictures of yours. Just email them to digital@bournemouthecho.co.uk