DIY Glowing Sugar Skull Pumpkins

Carving a pumpkin is a traditional Halloween experience. But a no-carve pumpkin craft can be lots of fun too and honestly a lot less messy! These DIY Glowing Sugar Skull Pumpkins are fun to make for kids, teens, or adults!

With young kids, carving pumpkins with sharp knives, slimy gooey insides, and tough-to-cut pumpkin rinds, can be stressful for me. I still like letting the kids get involved and doing Halloween crafts and no-carve pumpkins are great for kids.

When I saw this glow in the dark paint on Amazon, I knew it would make a fun Halloween craft.

Living in Tucson, we often see a lot of sugar skulls around because of the local Hispanic culture. Over the past few years, I’ve started incorporating sugar skulls into my Halloween/Autumn decor. Hence, how this DIY Glowing Sugar Skull Pumpkin was born!

DIY Glowing Sugar Skull Pumpkin

• Pumpkin - white or orange (we did both)

• Tulip Glow in the Dark paint

• blacklight (get whatever fits your space)

• pencils (to sketch your design beforehand)

This DIY Glowing Sugar Skull Pumpkin isn’t too complicated, but does take a steady hand and some creativity creating a design. I traced out my design with a pencil on your pumpkin beforehand. This will help you not make mistakes when you start with the paint.

Pull up different sugar skull pictures and let kids pick and choose what sugar skull features they like and want on the pumpkin. Flower eyes are a must!

Using a steady hand, trace your designs with the glow in the dark paint.

The glow in the dark paint looks really good in the dark or with the blacklight glow on it!