Monday, October 5, 2009
Carving a Pumpkin
Monday's Halloween activity was carving a pumpkin. We used a pattern and tools from a set that I bought last year after Halloween (for about 75 cents). O chose a cat pattern, and the pumpkin turned out really nice. Elliott roasted the pumpkin seeds with garlic, and they were delicious!
For quick and easy "pumpkins" ready to eat - you can use red or green bell peppers - they clean out and cut much easier than pumpkins -- you could put one -- or even a half at each place and the guests could nibble away and dip the pieces and eat them... esp if you light them with the battery powered candles...
ReplyDeleteI would have never thought of this but one of my campers on a 4H bicycle trip was asked to slice up some peppers and instead of "sacrificing them to our stomachs" in the normal way he turned them into cute little jack o'lanterns --
of course we had no pumpkin seeds to back this way - but it was fun.