These painted pumpkins have tons of creative possibilities, while also making way less mess than your standard pumpkin carving does. So grab some paint and brushes, and let your imagination go wild.

Try these creative pumpkin decorating ideas this Halloween. Find a mix of no-carve, painted and carved pumpkin decorating ideas for different skill levels.

You set up the paint, let kids go crazy and they love it," Erwin says. "We have kids as young as two or three. ... Painting a pumpkin typically takes 30 minutes to an hour.

Jeanette Paras, self-proclaimed “crazy pumpkin lady,” started carving celebrity likenesses out of pumpkins in 1988, when she created two pumpkins resembling presidential candidates George H.W ...