At our house, we. love. fall. However, we are more about cutesy pumpkin autumn decorations, and not so into the spooky scary Halloween stuff. This fall, I wanted to come up with a home decor craft that my four year old daughter could help me with. She loves sticker projects, so I was excited when I found these self-adhesive buttons. These buttons are awesome! For this project we made a jack-o-lantern, but soon after we also made a rainbow with them on a piece of card stock. I decided I wanted our jack-o-lantern do be a DIY Halloween door decoration. She LOVED working on the project, and it turned out super cute!
The beginning of this craft can start as a sorting game. We needed orange, green and black buttons. I set out three dishes, and my daughter sorted out the three colors we’d be using. She really enjoyed sorting the buttons!
Note: The orange and green buttons are self-adhesive. However, the black don’t have any adhesive backing, so you have to use glue with those.
Draw a jack-o-lantern face on the DIY Door Pumpkin in the colors that the child should match the buttons to. Start by working on the jack-o-lantern’s eyes, nose and mouth first. Add a little Tacky Glue to the areas, and allow the child to put the black buttons in place.
Have your child continue by adding orange and green self-adhesive buttons to the pumpkin. It’s really easy and fun!
When your jack-o-lantern is complete, add an orange ribbon to your DIY Halloween decor and hang it on your front door.
My daughter is so proud to see her work of art on display at our house!
It’s the perfect not-too-scary Halloween door decoration.