| Halloween pumpkins are so much fun for the whole | | | | using gourds and squash for the ears, beak, and feet. |
| family. Coming up with ideas to carve can be the | | | | You could use a long skinny pumpkin for the body of |
| tricky part. Pumpkins come in so many shapes and | | | | animal such as a wiener dog; you could make an |
| sizes, just like people. These shapes and sizes in and | | | | elephant with a big round pumpkin. A rabbit would be |
| of themselves and serve as the source for an | | | | very cute or something more Halloween like would |
| idea.Using several small pumpkins all in a row can be | | | | be a black cat. You could spray paint your pumpkin |
| used to spell words or a phrase. Some ideas are: | | | | black.You could make a village of haunted houses. Cut |
| Happy Halloween, Trick or Treat, Scary, Spooky, | | | | windows and doors out of your pumpkins, add some |
| Haunted House, Black Cat, or Turn Back Now. Use a | | | | spider webs and maybe a ghost flying over the top |
| different pumpkin for each letter. Line them up on | | | | or coming out of the door. Make your ghost out of a |
| the porch or use a bench to create rows or words. | | | | sheet and use a ball for the head. Just drape the |
| You can try just scraping the skin of the pumpkin | | | | sheet over the ball and tie a string around its |
| and not cutting all the way through to make the | | | | neck.Displaying your Halloween pumpkins can fun too. |
| shape for your letters. If you do this, you may want | | | | Put them up in the branches of the trees out in your |
| to scrape a little more flesh from behind that spot to | | | | yard, hang them on the fence, put them on plant |
| allow more light through. This makes a really cool | | | | stands, or lining the walkway up to your front |
| glow when you place the candle inside the | | | | door.Halloween pumpkins are fun and can be easy |
| pumpkin.Create animals with your Halloween | | | | too. So get into the Halloween spirit and start |
| pumpkins. Make an owl (like the picture on this page) | | | | planning your pumpkin designs now. |