Halloween Pumpkin Carvings

This year, like most years, we carved some pumpkins. We grew thses pumpkins in our garden. Not much else grew, but pumpkins did, even in places that we didn't plant them. We we had enough to do two pumpkins each and still have plently left over for our neighbors who we share the garden with, plus more on top of that.

We let each of the kids clean out and draw the faces on their pumpkings.

Alexis enjoying the slimy pumpkin guts.

 We started out cutting with a knife but then Jared thought, "I have something that works a lot faster." He ran out to the garage and brought back in his jig saw. What normally took us a couple hours to do was done with in 30 minutes, cutting the tops off, cleaning the guts out, scraping the lining, drawing the faces, and then cutting the eyes, ears, and noses out of each pumpkin took seconds rather than minutes. Jared was real tickled with himself for figuring out that power tools are a better way to go when carving up pumpkins.

 Eli would not touch the guts.

 Kenzie loved playing with the slimy seeds and stringy guts though!

 I ended up cleaning out Eli's pumpkin for him. He thought it was gross that I jokingly was eating the guts.

 Even Jordyn liked cleaning out the pumpkins. Jared would scrape up a whole bunch of the guts and then she would reach in and pull it all out and put it in the trash.We put the bib on her to try and keep her from getting too sticky.

 The finished products. We took glow sticks and put them in the pumpkins instead of candles. It was cool because they glowed pink and blue and red, and yellow.

 I took a potato peeler and peeled off some of the orange skin of the pumpkin and then drew on and painted our families faces onto the pumpkins. Then I took felt and string and made our hair and hot glued it on.

Eli, Kenzie, Courtney, Jared, Alexis, and Jordyn.

(I think Jordyn's looks a little like Dora the Explorer.)

Sorry these posts took forever for me to do, my computer was broken for a long time.