How To Make No-Carve Glow-In-The-Dark Pumpkins

Channel your 90’s techno dance party selves with a bunch of glow-in-the-dark pumpkins. While we’ve been working on our Halloween costumes, staying up too late making jungle bass mix tapes, and watching the hit 1995 film Hackers starring Angelina Jolie, we also came up with some great projects and were sure to stock our store with everything you need to make your halloween stuff glow.

materials you need for glow in the dark pumpkins

Materials + Tools:

pumpkins
blue painter’s tape
marker/pen
printable templates
cutting mat
xacto knife
glue stick
glow-in-the-dark spray paint

Instructions:

Starting with the Tribal Belly Band Pumpkin:

First cover your pumpkin in blue painter’s tape. It’s easiest to cover it in strips from top to bottom. Press the tape down so you get a nice seal.
Cut out the geometric template down the dotted lines and cut off the white ends on each one.
Cover the back of the strips in glue and place around the center of the pumpkin. You won’t get the paper to lie perfectly flat so don’t even try. Just try to keep the whole template moving around the center of the pumpkin. It took 4 strips for us to get around our pumpkin, so may need to print out more than one template.
Cut out the gray parts of the design. Don’t worry about slicing into the pumpkin a bit.
Remove the gray parts of the stencil along with the tape beneath it.

And onto the Star Struck Pumpkin:

Cover the pumpkin you will use with tape again like you did for the last one.
Cut out the gray parts of the star stencil.
Use the stencil to draw stars onto the tape in an arrangement that you find pleasing.
Cut out the stars with your xacto and remove the tape.

Now, finally the Geometric Mosaic Pumpkin:

Use painter’s tape (we recommend 1/2”) to create geometric shapes on your pumpkin.
Now we are ready to spray all three pumpkins with glow-in-the-dark spray paint.
Spray a coat or two on each, then peel off painter’s tape and let ’em glow!