I'm trying to make my pumpkin look like Nightmare Foxy from Frickbear's 3.

Why don't you just remove the seeds before painting it? I'm not a scientist but I'd assume that, depending on what kind of paint you use, it probably wouldn't leak through the pumpkin rind and contaminate the seeds. But the best way to not even worry about it would be to just remove the seeds first, IMO.

I'd just buy a pumpkin, harvest the seeds, throw the rest in the trash, and spend a dollar on a plastic pumpkin for your felt mod.

You are supposed to remove the seeds first.

If nothing else, a hollow pumpkin is much easier to handle.

Once you cut in and/or remove the seeds, they start to go off. You usually only get a week at most.

Painting instead of carving, it’ll last much longer.

Though, part of what makes them fun is their impermanence

Roast the seeds on a baking sheet and they’ll keep, or refrigerate them if you don’t want to eat them right away. At least then you can see whether they’re going off, rather than just trusting the pumpkin doesn’t start rotting on the inside where it’s not visible before you get round to using them.

Just gut Jack and preserve his innards first, it’s safer.

Does paint seep that deep into a pumpkin? Is one paint better at not doing that over another?

Also if you wanna do the felt option instead, just go for it. Who says you gotta conform to what other decorators do?

Felt will make the pumpkin turn faster, since they don’t like clothes.

For real, though, plants need to breathe, and they breathe through their skin – if you block their pores with glue and fabric, they’ll go off faster.

Paints aren’t as bad, though they’ll also block the pumpkin’s ability to exchange the gasses (ethylenes) that need to escape. Ethylenes cause decomposition if the plant has to stew in them. If ethylenes are trapped, the veg will turn much faster. This is why you can buy ethylene exchanging bags and containers to keep your produce fresh longer in your fridge. Some produce sections sell veg in special green ethylene bags meant to facilitate this gas exchange.

The only reliable way to keep seeds and pulps from turning is to gut the pumpkin before decorating it and either roast or preserve the seeds.

I mean whatre you using? Grandma's lead paint? Why not just buy non-toxic oaint and if you are super super super concerned then just dont paint over any spots the skin is lacerat3d or punctured. The skin on fruit and veggies p3rforms the same roll as animal skin. Animal skin has oil, plants have fiber. Oil prevents tons of water based bacteria and viruses from getting in (maybe have it backwards it might be lipid based but the point is they dont play well together). Plant fiber... ima just look it up and copy pasta it cuz were a cunt hair away from 20 years removed from hs bio: "Antimicrobial activity is the most studied biofunctional property in natural plant fibers, followed by antioxidant, UV protective, and wound healing activities."

The skins there for a reason. Just dont use oil base paint loljk

I... have trouble reading your comment...

Those are not eating pumpkins, forget this idea.