Coffee-Filter Pumpkins 🎃

A simple, eye-catching Halloween craft using coffee filters that turn into… orange pumpkins!

Materials

• Coffee filters
• Orange markers or diluted water-based paints/tempera
• Black marker
• Spray bottle of water or a cup of water with a paintbrush
• Protective surface (newspaper/plastic)
• Ribbon or string (optional, for a garland)
• Clothespins (optional, for drying)

Procedure

Place the coffee filter on a protected surface and roughly color it with an orange marker (lines/dots/scribbles are fine). Lightly mist with water (or brush over with a wet paintbrush). You’ll see the orange spread evenly and create lovely shades. Let the filters dry (you can hang them with clothespins). With a black marker, draw eyes, a nose, and a mouth—like the spooky cutouts on orange jack-o’-lanterns (triangle eyes, a little tooth, etc.).

Thread a ribbon through the top to make a pumpkin-face garland, or add a small artificial tealight and turn them on at night. The result will be impressive.