First, we had the kids draw their jack-o-lantern faces on a piece of paper. (Actually, this didn't go as planned. I made the mistake of showing them a few pumpkins online first. They then decided that they wanted exactly the faces they saw in the pictures - a sad one and a mean one - they refused to draw something cute and three-year-old-ish.) Curt then took the images and cut out the pieces of masking tape and put them on the jars.
The kids then added orange paint. No neatness required. We did about three coats. I didn't think this was necessary and only did two coats on my jar. The jars with the three coats definitely have better contrast when finished and lit.
After the paint is dry, peel off the masking tape to reveal your jack-o-lantern face. We found it was helpful, but not completely necessary, to score around the edges of tape with a razor blade before peeling off the tape. Glass is somewhat forgiving, and if excess paint happened to get under the tape, you can just scrape it off.
We used tealights to light our jack-o-lantern family.
Micah's "mean" Jack.
Mackenna's "sad" Jack.
Don't they look like us?
Halloween 2011
Curt - Laura - Micah - Mackenna - Jocelyn
(At least Jocelyn's looks like her!)
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