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