We love glue resist art projects, one of our favourites was the watercolor leaf garland we made last Autumn and this year we decided to try a variation using black paper for our glue resist pumpkins which is the perfect pumpkin art project for this fall season. This black glue pumpkin art project is perfect for kids of all ages from preschoolers to adults. I mean who doesn’t love seasonal crafts?
We love art resist projects. There is something about glue, whether it is from a squeezy bottle or from a glue gun as it is great for fine motor skills. In fact, art resist is a great first-time glue gun project as there is less temptation to touch the glue as you are not looking for it to bond anything. We allow love seasonal crafting and art and this is a fun fall activity that you can join in making with the kids in the build-up to Halloween. Plus it is the perfect classroom Halloween art without being scary.
How to Make Pumpkin Art
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Materials
- Black card
- Glue gun or glue (UK Link/US Link)
- White pencil
- Chalk pastels, oil pastels, crayons, watercolour paints
Glue Resist Art Project for Kids – Pumpkin
We were inspired by these glue line pumpkins and these pumpkins using glue resist. We decided to use black paper and oil pastels, but they look equally as great on watercolour paper with paints and using chalk pastels.
We drew our pumpkin’s from life using some small pot ones that I had. There is something about glue, whether it is from a squeezy bottle or from a glue gun as it is great for fine motor skills. In fact, art resist is a great first-time glue gun project as there is less temptation to touch the glue as you are not looking for it to bond anything. We allow love seasonal crafting and art and this is a fun fall activity that you can join in making with the kids in the build-up to Halloween. Plus it is the perfect classroom Halloween art without being scary.
We practiced drawing them on to sheets of paper first, before using a white pencil to draw them on to cardstock. But you could skip this and apply the glue directly to the paper if you are feeling more confident. If you are not confident at all then print off an image to use as a pumpkin template and practice by tracing on to your card or paper.
The benefit of using a glue gun is that it dries faster, making this project faster for impatient children who struggle to wait for the glue to dry! Black glue looks amazing in this project and I didn’t have any so used black paper instead.
If you are using PVA glue, then it is best to allow the glue to dry overnight. Once dry then you can erase the white lines.
This is a really great project for younger children too as the colour is contained. We used water soluble oil pastels this time. But crayons and chalk work well as does watercolour paint.
We talked about shading and creating a 3D effect by using lighter colours in the center of the segments. Maxi then finished off hispunpkin craft picture by adding some ground and sky to it.
I love how it turned out and also how his friends single pumpkin using chalk turned out too. We just used some hair spray to seal the picture.
How ace do they look! They were so fun to do and I have framed them so they will look great year on year when we bring them out to decorate for Autumn. I think they would also look amazing with watercolors too.
We also have some other fab paper pumpkin crafts here including paper pumpkin faces that are perfect for preschoolers, especially if pumpkin carving is too advanced for them.
Make sure you check out our other Pumpkin craft ideas and all things pumpkin.
love these pumpkins! We don’t have a glue gun though think I need to get one as there are so many uses for them. You are so artistic! x
These are great for kids http://amzn.to/1KhwGd2 or this one http://amzn.to/1jMrKGI, but you can just use normal PVA and let it dry, which is what I would do with younger children.
love these pumpkins! We don’t have a glue gun though think I need to get one as there are so many uses for them. You are so artistic! x
These look fantastic. Whereabouts would I be able to get a glue gun like this? I want to make it for D’s birthday (Halloween!)
This is a great low melt glue gun http://amzn.to/1KhwGd2 or this one http://amzn.to/1jMrKGI
I can see this is where a glue gun comes into its own, but I guess you could do it as a 2 day project otherwise (my son tends to heavy handed with the glue).
Yes, that is what I said in the post. It you have a child that is heavy handed try using a bottle with a smaller opening. I do that and just decant from a big one to top it up!
*Runs out to buy a glue gun* these look awesome and fun to do
Aw these look fab Jen – perfect for Autumn x
I absolutely love this and can totally see why older children would enjoy it too. I think I would aswell. It looks brilliant.
Wow, I don’t know how we’ve never tried this technique before, those pumpkins look fantastic!!!
These look awesome! Glue guns are fantastic!
Oh I LOVE these, absolutely gorgeous and so effective! I’ll definitely be getting the glue gun out later!
I love this Jen, so effective. Mich x
What a lovely craft idea, they look fantastic as well -perfect for Autumn. x
These look really effective!
I’m totally gobsmacked by these as they are so artistic and tasteful looking and I adore the colours. Hope you are going to frame them.
aww these look fantastically great fun .. i ought to do more arts and crafts
We don’t have a glue gun, wish we did though as they are pretty useful!
L is watching over my shoulder, I saw these on your fb and now we have to try them!
The pictures look fantastic. I didn’t know that you could use glue in this way – how ingenious!
These are so fab, when I first clicked on the post, I thought it was a review of something you’d bought, not something you’d made!
Now that looks absolutely fantastic, great drawing and the shading and colours are spot on !
Those pumpkins look great, what a fun project!
Oh wow what a brilliant idea, these look fabulous. Funnily enough I used a glue gun for the first time the other night at an event, the glue dries so fast. It wasn’t ideal for making a headdress but I would love one at home for other crafty things!
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