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Silver Pumpkins

DIY Silver Mercury Glass Pumpkins: learn how to turn a real orange pumpkin into a silver, mercury glass looking one, with a little paint.
DIY Silver Mercury Glass Pumpkins: learn how to turn a real orange pumpkin into a silver, mercury glass looking one, with a little paint.

 This year I’m in love with the all the white pumpkins, as you might have noticed, and thought it would be fun to mix the white pumpkins with some silver pumpkins.

how to make a silver pumpkin

Where does one get silver pumpkins…it might involve a little spray paint. 😉

painting pumpkins with spray paint

I found a regular old .99 cent pumpkin at the grocery store, and used them for our pumpkin makeover.

Materials:

  • orange and white pumpkins
  • silver spray paint
  • black craft paint
  • toothbrush

silver pumpkins

How To Make Silver Pumpkins

I sprayed the bottoms of the orange and white pumpkins first and let them dry.

DIY Silver Mercury Glass Pumpkins

Then I sprayed the tops, and while the silver was still wet I used a tooth brush to add some black speckles, with some black craft paint.  I ran my finger over the toothbrush to flick it, and spray black dots onto the silver paint.

how to paint Silver Mercury Glass

I few times I got a line rather than a speckle, so I just blotted it with a rag and started over.

It was super easy, and I really like the effect, something similar to a mercury glass.

silver pumpkins

how to make  Silver Mercury Glass Pumpkins

I set the new mercury glass looking  pumpkins on my entrance way table, and mixed in some real mercury glass, and some white pumpkins. Kind of love it.

DIY Silver Mercury Glass Pumpkins

DIY Silver Mercury Glass

With DIY silver pumpkins, life really is a party!

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6 Comments

  1. The silver pumpkins look so effective and such an effective way of adding a halloween touch without going overboard with the oranges and greens, just great!

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