Tomorrow is going to be a busy day, and we decided that if we were going to do anything to the pumpkins it was tonight or never!
Lydia wanted to make a Minnie Mouse pumpkin, of course. I LOVE these decorations that you just poke into the pumpkin. Kyle and I can use a skewer to poke the holes and then even the little kids can just push the pieces into the holes and feel like THEY made their pumpkin.
Chloe made a pumpkin princess:
Tyra picked out a blue pumpkin and thought it would be fun to use the pieces to make it a witch.
Adam couldn’t decided between the Mickey Mouse pieces or the Yoda pieces. He played with all of the pieces, but eventually decided on Yoda.
Ethan, Jeremy and Dinah all wanted to actually carve their pumpkins, which means they had to gut them out.
I had bought some carving kits on clearance last year, and Dinah wanted to use one of the patterns that came with the Hello Kitty set. I am very glad that I bought the kits on clearance. They seemed easier to use than the big Cutco knives and kitchen spoons for cutting into and scraping out the pumpkin. BUT they are cheap quality. Kyle was using one of the carving kit knives to help the kids carve their pumpkins and I guess he was going too fast or something but the blade just snapped right off! We ended up having two of the carving kit knives snap before we were done with carving for the night. So we will be looking for more of these kits on clearance, because they work well, but I would never pay full price for them because they break way too easily!
In case you can’t tell, Ethan’s pumpkin is a Pokemon Poke-ball. 🙂