Cut and Paste Pumpkin Craft for Kids (FREE Printable PDF)

Make your own jack o’lantern with our free printable cut and paste pumpkin craft. Kids can color and cut out their pumpkin, choose the eyes, nose and mouth they want to use and stick them together to create their own unique pumpkin craft for Halloween.

This easy pumpkin craft printable is a fun way for kids to practice scissor skills and you can print as many copies as you like, making it a fun Halloween activity for at home or in preschools, kindergartens or classrooms.

Build a Jack O’Lantern Pumpkin

I’m really into cut and paste crafts at the moment, they’re so fun to make and a great way to sneak in some scissor skills practice for your kids!

I think that pumpkins have to be the quintessential symbol of Halloween as so many of us carve or decorate one to put on our porch and I love the creativity that is part of that too with people creating so many different cool designs.

With two printables pages of eyes, noses and mouths to cut out and stick onto their pumpkin kids can decide if they want to make a cute, funny or scary jack o’lantern, making their own creative design.

You can print as many copies of these pumpkin printables as you like so it’s perfect as a preschool or classroom activity too.

If you’d like to make a pumpkin craft that teaches kids about the insides of the pumpkin as well then make sure you check out our build a pumpkin printable which shows the seeds and fibrous strands or for a simple pumpkin outline that younger kids can color or decorate grab our pumpkin template.

Pumpkin Craft Materials

• Pumpkin craft PDF printed onto white paper or cardstock
• Coloring materials – markers, coloring pencils or crayons
• Scissors
• Glue

How To Make Your Cut and Paste Pumpkin Craft

First of all you need to print all three pages of the PDF file onto white paper or cardstock.

Either is fine for printing on, cardstock is a little more durable but I’ve just used normal white printer paper for my jack-o-lantern and this was fine.

Next is coloring in. Again I pretty much always just go with suggesting with what you have available at home as being a mom myself it’s the same rules that I have to go by!

In this case I’ve used a green marker for the pumpkin’s stem and an orange crayon for the main body of the pumpkin as that was what we had available.

Once you have colored in the pumpkin pieces cut them out, you’ll find a dotted line around these to help guide you.

If you have a toddler or a preschooler who is just learning about scissor skills then the pumpkin outline can be a good place to start as it’s not too complicated.

Choose the eyes, nose and mouth that you would like to turn your pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern and cut these out too.

You can always cut a few different versions out so you can move them around on your pumpkin and decide which look is your favourite.

If you are making a pumpkin this year with your child then you could also use now to have a talk with them about your design – you could use our pumpkin features for tracing onto a real pumpkin if you liked and have this craft as your practice run for what looks good!

Finally glue your chosen features onto your pumpkin and it’s ready to display.

More Easy Halloween Crafts for Kids

We have loads of Halloween crafts for you to try, from free Halloween printables to easy crafts suitable for preschoolers and kindergartners as well as those that older kids will enjoy.

This is just a really small selection of them but will hopefully get you inspired to try something new this year.

Our cut and paste spider craft is a great way to practice scissor skills, it also has a spider’s web in the printable pack and you could even add a few flies for its dinner!

If you’re after some easy Halloween decor kids can make then make sure you check out this jack o’lantern suncatcher.

It’s one of my favorite pumpkin crafts for kids and it’s one that I made with my children when they were young. As well as being a great way to learn about color mixing it’s a fun way to help support fine motor skills too.

Our build a bat printable is perfect as a low-prep activity and I think that the finished bat craft would look great displayed, especially if you had a group of these on a bulletin board.

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Build a Jack O’Lantern Pumpkin Craft

Make your own jack o'lantern with this fun cut and paste pumpkin craft. Kids can color the pieces, cut them out and glue them together choosing from different eyes, noses and mouths to create their own unique pumpkin.

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Keyword: free printable, Halloween, pumpkin craft

Author: Kate Williams

Equipment

• Cut and paste pumpkin craft printable
• White paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue
• Coloring pencils, colored markers or crayons

Instructions

• Print all three pages of the pumpkin craft PDF onto white paper or cardstock.
  
• Color in the pumpkin and stem.
  
• Cut out the pumpkin and stem as well as the eyes, nose and mouth you want to use.
• Glue the pieces to make your jack o'lantern.
  

Notes

Choose white paper to make this craft easier to cut or cardstock if you want to make your finished craft a little more durable.

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