Paper Bag Jack-o'-Lantern

What You Need:

• Brown paper bag
• An old newspaper
• Tape
• Orange, black, and green paint
• Large and small paintbrushes
• Green Ribbon
• Old newspapers

What You Do:

1. Invite your child to turn a paper shopping bag inside out so that any graphics are facing inwards. 
2. Ask your child to crumple pages of the newspaper. Use these to stuff the paper bag until it is just about full, puffing it out into a round pumpkin shape.
3. Have your child secure the top of the paper bag by using a length of clear tape to gather and hold the bag together.
4. It's time to decorate the jack-o'-lantern! invite your child to coat the outside of the paper bag with orange paint. Kids can apply as much coverage as they like. 
5. Once the orange paint is dry, your child can use a smaller paintbrush to add a face to the Jack-'o-Lantern. Make it as spooky or as silly as you like!
6. Complete the pumpkin by tying a length of green string at the top of the paper bag. Add a few strokes of green paint to create a pumpkin stem effect.

Be sure to display your completed jack-'o-lantern in a window or on your front steps on Halloween!