Pretty Pumpkins

This is an easy activity and a wonderful alternative to handing out knives in order to carve pumpkins for Halloween.  This is also the second year we've done this activity and the residents jumped right in knowing that pumpkins don't need to have faces. Stripes, dots and swirls brought life to our pumpkins that now decorate the tables in the dining room.

As usual, we used our favorite paint from Blick Art Materials, blickacrylic.  Not pictured, but also painted, were a group of butternut squash, which took on the appearance of nesting dolls.  Try your hand at painting the gourds of the season.  Enjoy!