Have fun making a pumpkin face with this free printable pumpkin craft template.
Make a cute jack-o-lantern face using one of the printable pumpkin templates with craft materials, loose parts, playdough and more. Kids will love designing their own jack-o-lanterns while also working on lots of fine motor skills, and using their imagination and creativity with this easy, ‘print and go’ pumpkin face activity.
This pumpkin face activity is perfect for Halloween and makes a great autumn/fall activity too. With so many fun and easy ways to use these pumpkin templates to design your own jack-o-lanterns this is a great activity for at home or in the classroom.
For more fun check out our Halloween activities for kids!
Fun ways to Make Pumpkin Faces!
Use these pumpkin templates for a fun creative activity such as drawing, painting or collage. Or use them as a great fine motor activity with loose parts, pattern blocks or playdough. Whatever you use to make your pumpkin faces there is lots of opportunities to learn about facial features, emotions and more.
Make a Pumpkin Face with Loose Parts
Using loose parts is one of the easiest and most fun ways to use these pumpkin templates.
Simply collect a variety of small objects you can use to make your pumpkin face, such as googly eyes, pipe cleaners, beads, gems, craft sticks and more. Our free printable face parts cutouts are also great fun to add to your pumpkin faces!
Using loose parts is a great way to work on fine motor skills and your kids carefully arrange each item to make their face.
Use the Pumpkin Templates with Playdough.
These pumpkin templates make great playdough mats. Grab some playdough and make a happy, sad, or scary jack-o-lantern from the pumpkins – a great way to work on identifying emotions!
If your kids love playdough check out our fabulous Halloween playdough mats!
Make a Pumpkin Face with Natural Materials
Collecting natural materials to make your pumpkin face is a fun and easy ideas.
We collected small stones, leaves, sticks and flowers to make our jack-o-lantern face and the kids just loved how fun they turned out!
Use the Pumpkin Templates for Drawing or Painting.
The black and white pumpkin templates are perfect for drawing or painting your pumpkin faces.
Gran some markers or pencils and draw some fun faces, or use paints or oil pastels and liquid water colours for an arty pumpkin face!
Make a Pumpkin Face with Collage Materials.
A fun way to make a pumpkin is using collage!
Grab a glue stick and some simple collage materials to stick to the pumpkin to make a face. You could use paper scraps, wool, junk mail, cloth scraps, foil or anything you can find!
Make a Pumpkin Face Free Printable Template
There are two different pumpkin craft templates to choose from, and both come in colour and black and white. Use them for crafts, fine motor activities, playdough and more.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
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