Luckily FamilyFun Magazine has some amazing ideas for pumpkin decorating that you can do now ... Draw a guide for your word on paper. Curve 12-gauge armature wire to match it, leaving 3 inches ...

These creative no-carve pumpkin decorating ideas will make your Halloween porch ... theme even further by covering the pumpkin in floral paper. Get the tutorial at The Pretty Life Girls.

Or why not make some small bats from black paper or ribbon and stick them on your pumpkin after decorating half of it in cream paint and the other in a cool metallic? Easy enough for the least ...