Metallic Glittery Pumpkin

Transform a bright orange foam pumpkin into a chic glittery pumpkin instead? Umm, yes please!

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Materials

Remember I said that this set of projects was riddled with “honest crafter moments” combined with pregnant mom brain? Yep, here’s another example of that: I totally whiffed on taking the materials pic BEFORE I painted the pumpkin (Let’s just pretend that the pumpkin is orange in this pic). The materials I used for this project are:

  • a totally not previously painted by accident foam pumpkin

  • glitter

  • glue

  • metallic paint (also not pictured)

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Paint the Pumpkin

I was able to grab a screenshot of the spray paint I used from the video I took (insert sigh of relief here)

Paint the pumpkin with the metallic paint. I chose to use spray paint to have a quick yet saturated coat of paint applied. If you choose to use spray paint on the foam pumpkin, put a simple base coat of white acrylic paint on it first (see the pumpkin in the box). Doing this step stops the pumpkin from warping…trust me on this, I definitely learned the hard way. Click here if you want to see how that struggle turned out.

 
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Quick tip

I always prefer to do my spray painting outside and in an old cardboard box. It saves me from cleaning up an overspray mess.