Painting pumpkins is so simple and fun. It doesn’t require any sharp tools or touching the slimy goop in the inside of the pumpkin, though you might miss all the yummy recipes that use pumpkin ...

First up, get some white paint, cover your entire pumpkin in it and then get your dainty paintbrush to hand and make a spider crawl across it – or simply write ‘trick or treat’. Or why not ...

You can find Halloween-themed templates including a trick-or-treat bag of sweets, a haunted house and a pumpkin to colour in. Or maybe you want to paint a pumpkin without the mess? Click to play ...