Easy Halloween Craft: Paper Bag Pumpkins

My friend Ashley created these adorable paper bag pumpkins as an easy craft for our children to do one afternoon after school.  There are lots of online ideas for the pumpkins, but the basic idea is just a paper lunch sack painted orange and decorated with construction paper.

The bags were even pretty easy for my 3-year-old to paint, especially when she put her arm in it and painted with the other hand.

The older kids cut out the construction paper faces.

Here's a picture of GiGi's pumpkin next to Ashley's "sample" pumpkin.  I would recommend a thicker paint, like Ashley used, but even the thinner paint gives enough of an orange cast to make the bag look like a pumpkin.  (Can you tell that GiGi is obsessed with glue?)

You can just fill the bag with air and tie it closed, but we stuffed some with newspaper to make them sturdier.

This was a fun and easy craft that used materials we already had around the house.  Total cost: free!

See more DIY ideas at A Soft Place to Land.