This first pumpkin is our traditional harvest pumpkin with the raffia bow. I have about 4 strands of raffia on this one.
If you are not a raffia person you can tie a bow. We chose purple and black to stick with the halloween theme, but if you would like a harvest pumpkin for thanksgiving you could use a brown, yellow or green bow.
My kids told be that Halloween pumpkins needed to be Jack-O-Lanterns, so we cut out a face out of cardstock and glued it to this pumpkin. You could use black paint and paint a more permanent face on your Jack-O-Lanterns. I am planning on letting my kids each make their own and they can paint a face on them, but this one was just temporary for the picture because I prefer mine without the face.