Painting Pumpkins

 We had some fun painting pumpkins for family home evening on Monday.  I just bought a set of crayola washable paint for a couple bucks, and it kept everyone happy for a good twenty minutes which is really saying something.  You can see that both the babies started out clean.  Gem actually did a pretty good job of staying clean the whole time, I didn't even make her wear a bag like the babies :)

 

 It didn't take long for June to get pretty messy.  She had fun painting the pumpkin and also the newspapers.  Sometimes she even opted the forgo the paintbrush.  Once she tasted the paint but she obviously didn't like it, because she didn't do that again.

 

 One of Gem's finished pumpkins is above.  I think it turned out pretty good.  She also got lucky and was able to paint mine and Tyler's pumpkins.  She was pleased about that.  Daddy was out of town, and I was on picture and keep everyone-under-control duty. 
Levi didn't really understand about putting the paint all over the pumpkin, he just kept putting it in the same spot, but I think it turned out rather nice.  He loves the color purple, so he used up all the purple first; it was the base coat of his pumpkin.  Eventually he realized there was no more purple and he was forced to use some other colors also.

 

 

 

 So from left to right we have June's pumpkin, Levi's pumpkin, and then the three painted by Gem.

Happy Halloween!