Tin Can Pumpkin Craft – Halloween Crafts for Kids

Have a bunch of empty tin cans and don’t know what to do with them? This pumpkin tin can craft is perfect for Halloween.

Halloween is coming up, now is the best time to start collecting tin cans if you don’t have any.

Pumpkin Box Crafts

What you need:

tin box
orange and black acrylic paint (or black marker)
optional – white paint or white spray for the background (depending on what paint you have as some cover the can, while others don’t).
brush

If necessary, paint the box white and let the paint dry completely.

Add one or two coats of orange acrylic paint. Allow to dry completely.

Once the paint is dry, draw the jack-o-lantern face with a marker and fill in with paint (or color with a marker).

You can also decorate these mini pumpkins with pipe cleaners.

This pumpkin in a tin craft is perfect for Halloween but with just a few tweaks you can make this fun monster all year round.

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