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