Easy cheap muted dollar store pumpkin diy

Been scrolling and pinning fall color schemes and I think I found the one I want this year.

My eyes were drawn to the muted green and pale orange.

Here is a quick tutorial on how I achieved this look. 

I turned these cheap looking dollar store pumpkins into these adorable muted chalk pumpkins.

These are the shades I used. For the green ones I just mixed those green shades together. I tried to change it up on each one to achieve different shade of green. 

First cover the pumpkins with a chalk or matte white paint for a primer. This is a great technique to help save some time.

I always use chalk paint so I had some on hand this is the brand I used.

But I only used a very small amount. So this one below would work fine depending on the amount you do. This one is very cheap.

click here for link to Walmart for this brand 

Once that dries start painting with your Matt acrylic. Make sure to get matte that is how you get this chalk aged look. 

Each one of the individual paints were $0.50 at Walmart.

Once you are done painting go back with a brush that you dipped in white or your lightest color and dry brush it. Here is a link to a dry brushing technique.

Last step is go find some pieces of branches in the back yard or park. My kids and I just found some some twigs in the back yard to jam in. I also seen another cute idea to spray paint the sticks a gold metallic color😁. Maybe next year I'll try that.

I love how they turned out. I plan on making more once I accumulate more pumpkins.

Have fun the good thing about this is next year you could always change it up and just paint over them again to fit your new color scheme!

I would love to see how yall's turned out. Comment below if you tried and attach a photo if you can.