Buzz and Alien Pumpkins

We were very Toy Story themed this year for Halloween so I painted our pumpkins to go along with that. We like to paint our pumpkins down here since the weather is so hot if we cut them they tend to melt and mold very quickly. So the alien was pretty easy, I used lots of neon green. For both these pumpkins I used the little bottles of acrylic paint, makes for an inexpensive craft. The aliens' antenna was a pipe cleaner covered with green felt and some thread.

Buzz took several hours to do but he turned out pretty darn awesome. The black is a sparkly black which gave it a great outer space look to it.

And here is my tiny little buzz lightyear. Costume, themed bucket and matching pumpkins. We had another great Halloween. 

Minion Pumpkin

I must admit that I love the Despicable Me movies, such fun, and the minions are so adorable. This year I really wanted to dress our son up as a minion but we went with a monkey instead (its very fitting for him). Anyways to get my minion *fix* I got crafty and made a minion pumpkin.

Now he isn't perfect, I noticed after gluing his goggles on that they are a little off center, he also could use a few more pipe cleaners for his hair, and I could have done something to cover up the glue. However, for this year at least, he will do. He turned out pretty darn cute though if I do say so myself. I free handed all the painting (just used some acrylic paint I had on hand), but it was fairly simple and its a pumpkin which makes it difficult to have perfectly straight lines anyways. He's fun and happy and that's what I was going for.