At Home With Montalvo: Halloween Pumpkin Mosaic

At Home with Montalvo Halloween Special: Pumpkin Mosaic In this step-by-step guide, we will create a fun and simple paper mosaic pumpkin!

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At Home with Montalvo Step 1: Supplies regular or construction paper (orange, green, black, white), crayons, scissors, glue, ruler, pencil

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At Home with Montalvo Step 2: Create and Cut Mosaic Shapes (for this demo) use your ruler and pencil to draw out varied sized triangles and cut them out. (alternative) tear varied sized pieces.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 3: Mosaic Shapes as you cut out the orange mosaic pieces for the pumpkin, you will also cut out a small batch for the pumpkin’s stem.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 4: Draw Pumpkin Shape take your black paper and draw an outline of the pumpkin. afterward, cut it out and paste it on your white paper.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 5: Begin Pumpkin Mosaic paste your orange mosaic pieces onto the pumpkin. you might have to cut and adjust your piecses depending how you put each section together.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 6: Trace and Arrange Stem using your leftover black paper, outline a short stem to fit on top of your pumpkin. afterward, use your green mosaic pieces and paste them down.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 7: Add Details with the green paper, draw out a couple leaves. with the black paper, draw out a mouth. with the white paper, draw two eyes and several teeths. cut these pieces out and paste them as displayed.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 8: Color In using crayon colors such as orange, red, red orange, yellow, and brown, color in the orange pieces to add a richer dimensional effect. use a green crayon for the leaves.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 8: Color In Details using crayon colors green, light green, yellow, brown, and black, draw the vines under the pumpkin and fill in with details.

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At Home with Montalvo Step 9: Final Masterpiece we hope you enjoyed this art project at home! show us what you made by emailing learn@montalvoarts.org or tagging us @montalvoarts on Facebook or Instagram.

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