It’s October. And the weather here has been surprisingly, October-ish. Autumn is my absolute favorite time of year. The weather is cooler, but not yet freezing. You can go to pumpkin farms and you can eat soup without breaking a sweat. This year it’s been a little wetter than usual, so we’ve been trying to find indoor activities.

Since we’ve not yet made it to a pumpkin farm to pick our Jack-o-Lantern pumpkins, I picked up a bag of mini pumpkins at the store the other day. Adrien was quite excited, because every day we’d gone to the store previously he’d wanted to get a pumpkin. Very badly. So to get a whole bag of mini’s was just sublime.

We also picked up some Halloween cookies that day at the store.

What do you get when you take a rainy day and add a few mini pumpkins and paint, then top it off with freshly baked cookies? One happy preschooler…and some Fall decor, of course! This project only requires mini pumpkins (or gourds or whatever) and old fashioned acrylic craft paint…and loads of newspaper to put down.

I really love the outcome!
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The best part of this whole thing is that 8 pumpkins came in the bag I bought. A 3 year old does not have the attention span to sit and paint 8 pumpkins at once (or at least mine doesn’t, and if you say yours does, I’ll have to ask what you’re drugging them with). So what that means is, you can drag this project out. Which is good, because it’s been raining like it’s monsoon season in south east Asia lately. Come to think of it, maybe we should be building an Ark instead of painting pumpkins…