Daily Idea #177: Paper Pumpkins

Paper mosaics and tissue paper crafts are always a hit in our house. They take time to either rip up the paper or to crumble the tissue paper bits and then there’s the gluing. The kids love it, I love it: It’s a win-win.

For today’s daily idea, we are going to use the paper mosaic idea to make some fall pumpkins. All you need is some orange, black, and green construction paper, glue, and a sharpie or a thick pen.

With the sharpie, make an outline of a pumpkin on a plain piece of paper— it doesn’t matter if it is a perfect pumpkin, a rough outline is all you need but the bigger the pumpkin the better. Have your child begin to rip up the various colors of construction paper. When they are ready, have them to glue their scraps of paper on and inside the pumpkin outline. You can use the green for the stem and some vines (and if you want to take this one step further, red, orange, and yellow construction paper bits make great fall leaves under the pumpkin).