Stacey Solomon shows how fake tattoos can take your pumpkin from boring to classy this Halloween and it’s so easy
CARVING Halloween pumpkins takes both time and skill.
And when children come up with increasingly difficult designs, it can be hard to match their expectations.
But Stacey Solomon has shared a genius hack to transform any pumpkin, and all you need is some fake tattoos.
The mum-of-five took to her Instagram Stories to post a video explaining her idea, as she began: “I’ve tried that whole tissue paper Halloween hack getting flowers on a pumpkin, and it’s so messy and takes forever.
“So I want to try these temporary tattoos.”
She insisted she had “no special hacks” in terms of applying the tattoos, and was “literally putting this on the pumpkin the same way I would my children, with a wet towel”.
Stacey showed herself choosing which tattoo she wanted, before peeling off the plastic, putting it in place and using a wet towel to apply pressure to the design.
She was then able to peel off the paper backing, leaving the flower stuck on the pumpkin.
“I can’t cope!” she exclaimed.
“Tell me this isn’t the best thing you’ve ever seen.
“This is a hundred times easier than the napkin hack!”
She concluded the design by colouring in the pumpkin’s stalk with a gold marker.
“Do you know what?” she said.
“I’m so happy!
“I really was doubting myself for a second.
“I was like, temporary tattoos won’t transfer onto a pumpkin, but they do!”
Stacey added that now she’s figured out that the idea works, she’s going to do a Halloween decorating evening with her girlfriends.
“I feel like this would be such a good thing to do!” she said.
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WHILE some might be waiting for Mariah Carey to slowly defrost, I couldn’t care less that Christmas is less than 100 days away.
Has everyone forgotten that there are less than 50 sleeps until the best holiday of the year?
I’ve long preferred Halloween to Christmas and spend most of the year mourning the loss of spooky season.
Not that I don’t find ways to include it into my year.
In April I marked the halfway point to the best day of the year with a ‘half-o-ween’ picnic in a cemetery (where else?). Come July I needed to get my fix again and hosted a ‘Summerween’ barbecue complete with watermelon carving and Piña Ghoul-adas.
Christmas fanatics are often horrified by my snowy-season snub, but for me December is just a slew of stress and overspending.
I don’t know about you but wracking my brains for bigger and better present ideas and spending four times the amount of time and money at the supermarket is not my idea of a good time.
With Halloween there is no expectation to spend. Homemade costumes are often head and tails above the ones sold in the shops and when it comes to decorations what is better than a carved pumpkin that can cost just pennies to achieve?
In January kids return to school bragging about what Santa brought them this year, all with the hope of outdoing each other but November 1st is a different story.
Trick or treating is fair through and through. Unless you’re bribing the neighbours, children all receive the same, and whatsmore for free, eliminating any playground bragging rights.
Above all I love the chaos over curation when it comes to Halloween. There’s no obligation to strive for perfection, in fact the rule is the sillier the better. It’s all the childhood nostalgia of Christmas but without the pressure.
So spare me the Christmas spirit, I’ll opt for a fully fledged ghost any day.
She also wrote over the top of a picture of the finished pumpkin: “I’m going to make this our Halloween girls’ night craft this year.
“I always have the girls over for a Halloween night and we make something.
“How cute! Just need a pack of cheap temporary tattoos, some pumpkins and a gold marker!”
And, of course, while Stacey used some gorgeous floral tattoos for her design, you could literally use any fake tattoos you wanted.
Meaning that the sky is quite literally the limit when it comes to decorating your pumpkin this year.
It’s also less messy, and easier to get the kids involved without having to worry about them wielding any sharp objects.