Pumpkin Jars

The other day the kiddos were begging to do a craft, so I looked in my craft cupboard and found the supplies to make these pumpkins.

You need:

clean empty baby food jars
mod podge
orange tissue paper
a permanent marker
green ribbon
paint brush
scissors

We started by cutting up the tissue paper into small squares. Then we used our Mod Podge to glue the orange squares all over the outside of the jar. My three year old enjoyed doing this, there is no perfect way to this step. Just cover the jar. After it is all dry we used the permanent markers to draw faces on our pumpkins and finished it off with a green ribbon on the top. If you have a votive candle you can put it inside the jar to illuminate it.

Stained Glass Pumpkin

For this craft I cut out the outline of a pumpkin from black construction paper. Next I cut out a piece of clear contact like paper and adhered it to the pumpkin outline making sure that the contact paper didn't go past the pumpkin outline. This left a big sticky and clear space in the middle. I covered the entire sticky side with pieces of orange and yellow tissue paper.

I ended up doing this craft with my Daisy Girl Scouts and it was a hit. As a leader I loved it because it didn't leave a mess behind. Before the girls came I prepped but cutting out all the pumpkins and adhering the contact paper to them and covered the sticky side with the backing from the contact paper. So when the girls arrived I just had to pull off the contact paper backing and they were ready to put their tissue paper on.