Colour Mixing Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft

Experiment with colour mixing whilst making this cute paper plate pumpkin craft.  Kids will love mixing red and yellow paint together using their hands to create this simple paper plate craft and it makes a great Halloween decoration!

Take a look at all our Halloween crafts and our pumpkin crafts. Toddlers and preschoolers will love our apple print pumpkins. 

To make a paper plate pumpkin you will need: 

• paper plates
• red and yellow poster paint
• Shapes cut out of black paper

How to experiment with colour mixing and make paper plate pumpkins

To make the orange for the pumpkins Harry used his hands to mix some red and yellow paint together on a paper plate.  This was definitely the best part of making the pumpkins.  He thought it was fascinating watching the colours mix together to make orange. Harry, the table and the kitchen ended up covered in paint, but that was half the fun!

Once the paint had dried Harry used some shapes that I had cut out of black paper to make his SPOOOOKY face. The green rectangles were meant to be for the pumpkin stems but Harry decided to use them as eyes instead!

We hope that you have fun creating your own paper plate pumpkin craft.

If you enjoyed this colour-mixing activity then you might also like to do a bit more color mixing for kids and create your own color wheel.