Family At The Foot Of The Cross: Pumpkins

Thursday, November 1, 2012

All Saint's Day Pumpkin Art

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Happy All Saint's Day!

Here I am sharing a fun art project...An idea that emerged from my disappointment! I was feeling really bummed out that we were missing our annual All Saint's Day party with our homeschool group this year, due to a family conflict. (I think I look forward to it, every year, more than the kids!) I started wracking my brain trying to think of something fun and meaningful that we could do as a family here at home to celebrate this important feast day. Always thinking about things that are "do-able"(My main priority for a project), I was inspired by Lacy's Saint puppets. I figured if we couldn't dress up as our favorite saints this year, we could dress up some pumpkins! We used many of the awesome Catholic Icing templates as guides for our faces and saintly symbols.

Setting up "shop" in the garage, we had art class all morning! All ages could participate...Age 4 an up:)

This would be a great idea for an All Saint's party too...It really only took us about 2 1/2 hours to make about a dozen Saint pumpkins! (Not including set-up and clean-up) Our only supplies were sharpie pens and paint. Tip: Washable Tempera paint definitely works well but we liked the acrylic paints best...More vibrant colors. Everyone wore aprons since acrylic paint is not washable.

We always discover new gifts and talents when we do art projects! Princess created an adorable Holy Family:)

We are using it for our kitchen table centerpiece for November...Maybe even December!? The rest of the pumpkins also made the cutest liturgical decorations:)