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Published:

Nov 5, 2025

Check out the winners of the 2025 BHC Great Pumpkin Decorating Contest hosted by the Quad-Cities Campus Student Life Office!

Thanks to the students who took the time to paint a pumpkin masterpiece!

Pictured are the winners. All of the participants are listed below. See all of the entries on Facebook.

Winners

The winners (except Fan Favorite) were picked by a panel of judges based on these criteria:

  • Originality
  • Ingenious use of inexpensive materials
  • Quality of work

The Fan Favorite is the entry that received the most votes on Facebook (73) as of 3 p.m. Nov. 5.

Congrats to all of the winners!

Decorated pumpkin with one eyeball, nose, teeth and goo oozing out of mouth

Best in Show

Eye See You by Andrew DeVries

Pumpkin with snoopy and woodstock characters and smiling jack-o-lantern painted on the pumpkin.

1st Place and Fan Favorite

The Great Pumpkin by Kemberly Fuentes

Owl and flowers painted on a pumpkin.

2nd Place

Holloween Owl by Paulina Pustejovsky

3 painted and carved pumpkins with frankenstein theme.

3rd Place

Frankatina and her two little monsters by Ally Malm

Pumpkin painted to look like bloodshot eyeball.

Honorable Mention

Nervous Eye by Audrey (Rainy) Woods

Pumpkin with painted face resembling rodeo clown.

Honorable Mention

Priscilla the Rodeo Clown by Halle Heath

Day of the dead style cat painted on a pumpkin.

Best of Fall Fest

Pumpkin decorated at Fall Fest 2025
(Howdy Halloween Hoedown)

Día de los muertos cat by Halle Hammond

Pumpkin participants

Thanks to these students who also submitted entries:

  • Leah Carter
  • Marcus Cope
  • Samantha Kilker
  • Reyhan Onder
  • Kiki Prosper
  • Anna Pustejovsky
  • Christina Pustejovsky
  • Anissia Rucker
  • Aramis Sandoval
  • Grace Shelton
  • Elaina Swindale
  • Olivia Toland
  • Hunter Toye
  • Remi Wendl

See all of the entries on Facebook.