Everyone loves a great jack-o-lantern to celebrate Halloween. If you can paint, go with painting fantastic images on pumpkins and sell them – right from your home! You can charge anywhere from $3-$50 per painted pumpkin. Use your imagination and come up with many designs!
Halloween is a festival that all children and adults look forward too. Children love dressing up as ghosts, witches, Draculas, in fact anything their imagination permits. Then carrying their lanterns made of pumpkin, they start collecting money while singing songs. So this is where you can lend your expertise by starting a service of painting various fantastic images on pumpkins, and selling them.
Families usually carve a frightening or comical face on the pumpkin, to be placed on their doorsteps. Therefore, instead of having pumpkins carved with the same faces, you could offer some variety by painting something different on pumpkins. All you need is some imagination and you are bound to come up with different designs. It is of no use charging too much for this service, as you will not get any customers then. Instead, charge something reasonable, between $3 – $50, depending on the size of the pumpkin and the amount of work put into painting or carving it.
The carving of the jack-o-lantern is not that difficult. The first thing that has to be done is to have its top and stem carved off wherein the interior is removed to leave a hollow shell. Then the section of a side is carved out to create an attractive face, or any other required design. It is always better to get a whole set of tools to start your job of painting pumpkins. This is because with differing tools, it is possible to make thicker and thinner cuts on the pumpkin, which can create realistic designs. To give better effects to the jack-o-lantern, it would be better to have them painted appropriate colors. For children
September 3, 2008
