The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Essential Concepts: Paint pumpkins with acrylic, spray, or washable paints, then seal them for display; add simple details, textures, or patterns for Halloween. Reuse them after the holiday as compost, planters, bird feeders, or garden materials, and keep painted pumpkins and leftover paint away from pets.
Small pumpkins can do far more than sit on a porch. With a little care, they can serve as candles, vases, place cards, feeders, and compost when the season ends.
Essential Concepts
Small pumpkins: useful, short-lived, compostable
Best uses: decor, storage, snacks, wildlife, crafts
Handle safely; keep dry; avoid bitter flesh
Fall display decorating ideas can be simple and refined: metallic pumpkins, lanterns, mums, and layered textures bring warmth to a front door or porch without much effort. Small details, such as wreaths, dried grasses, and painted pumpkins, can give the season’s display a calm, finished look.
Essential Concepts
Metallic accents, lanterns, mums, pumpkins, wreaths, layered textures