Glitter Glow Pumpkins {Martha Stewart Glow Glitter Review & Craft}

I was so excited to receive a package of fun Martha Stewart Halloween products from this year’s line. You can get these products at Michael’s Craft Stores or on MarthaStewart.com. I thought it would be fun to have a girl’s craft night and offer up a craft idea where the women could put their own spin on it. We had a blast eating and crafting all the night long!

My girlfriend is also hosting a Halloween Costume Party next week, and I have given her some of the Martha Stewart products to use at her party. I will take pictures and post them on here before Halloween!

I came up with the idea of Glitter Glow Pumpkins. Here are the materials you need:

Martha Stewart Glow in the Dark Glitter

Black Foam Pumpkins from Michael’s

Pencil

Pumpkin Template Pattern of your choice (You can find fun patterns here. )

White Acrylic Paint

Tape

Thin tip paint brush

Paper plate

How To:

1) Find your chosen pattern, and print out to fit the size that will match your pumpkin size.

2) Tape pattern onto your pumpkin. Make sure it is very secure and will not move.

3) Take your pencil and firmly trace the outline of your pattern so that you leave an indentation on the pumpkin where you have traced. Be sure to check your pattern on the pumpkin before you completely remove the template.

4) Remove template, and paint a small portion of your template with the white acrylic paint within your traced markings you have from your pencil.

5) While still wet, generously sprinkle the glitter onto your paint. Then gently shake the excess off onto a paper plate.

6) Continue to paint small areas of your template and alternate with adding glitter until your entire image is complete.

7) Hold your glitter pumpkin up to the light to activate, and enjoy your fun creation!!

The white paint will show during the day, and the glow glitter will show up at night!! Double the fun!

You can purchase all of Martha Stewart’s Halloween line at Michael’s.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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