Day 219: Out of your gourd

It’s Arts & Crafts day!

Today’s Activity: Get creative decorating pumpkins.

Here’s a great collection of unusual ideas for decorating your favorite autumn squash that go beyond carving a jack-o-lantern (warning: autoplay video).

And a fun fact: we’ve been eating pumpkins for a very long time. They may have been domesticated as early as 7500 BC.

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Want to share your work? Tag us on Instagram @sleepathomecamp. We’ll share our favorites in a future update.

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Catch up on previous Arts & Crafts days

• Draw a #Botober prompt

• Make your house smell like fall

• DIY some toys for your pets

• Loom knit a hat

• Make string art

• Try macrame

• Grow your own crystals

• Design your own coat of arms

• Fun with origami

• Make a miniature

• Put googly eyes on something

• Make a friendship bracelet

• Press some flowers

• Create a self-portrait

• Repurpose a cardboard box

• Make the fun kind of mask

• Make art out of text

• Fold some towel animals

• Assemble a papercraft optical illusion

• Craft a bouquet of paper flowers

• Make a pop-up book or card

• Repair something with visible mending

• Try quilling

• Create a phenakistiscope

• Draw a map of your neighborhood

• Stage a paper airplane race

• Illustrate your family tree

• Design your own flag

• Make a hat

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Share your ideas

Got ideas for things to do with the stuff you already have in your house? We’d love to hear your suggestions.

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