We had a friend give us some pumpkins out of her garden. For Family Home Evening, we decided to carve pumpkins and have caramel apples. Sounds festive, right?
K trying to pick out a pumpkin from our kitchen table pumpkin patch.
Z, J and S working hard at designing the perfect face. J held his up and asked, "Can you tell which one is the pumpkin?" NOPE!
K trying to pick out a pumpkin from our kitchen table pumpkin patch.
Z, J and S working hard at designing the perfect face. J held his up and asked, "Can you tell which one is the pumpkin?" NOPE!
H checking his pumpkin out. He kept licking it. It probably tasted like dirt. Yum!
The best part was cleaning out the insides. I decided that Halloween was thought up while someone was carving a pumpkin. The insides felt like spider webs. The kids thought they were digging out guts. They had a hard time getting the heart out. It was scarey and slimey and yucky!
It's alot of work to carve 6 pumpkins. We got the tops off of all of them and they all got cleaned out but we only got 2 carved. Then Ken and I were both tired and my house and kids were a mess. The pumpkins all went out to the front porch, carved or not, the kids went to the bathtub, K went to bed, and I cleaned up the kitchen.
We did end the night with family prayer and K's version of caramel apples. The kids were slightly disappointed that they didn't get to melt the caramels and then put it on the apples but in the end it all tasted pretty much the same. Plus, it was one less mess I had to clean up.
Next year we will only carve one pumpkin per adult, not one pumpkin per child. The rest will be decorated with markers!
4 comments:
It looks like a lot of fun, even though only two got carved! Painting is a good way to do it too. I love dipping apples in caramel. Yum!
We didn't get to do ours because I was sick. We are thinking of doing it on Saturday. The girls won't care that Halloween has past. It is all about the experience. It looks like your kids had fun.
what great pictures. It looks like you all had lots of fun!
I have a great idea--don't scoop out your pumpkins. I didn't feel like carving a pumpkin this year, but I bought one for me, so I cut out the lid and then just cut out the face. I didn't scoop out seeds or touch anything on the inside. I just smooshed a candle in the center and set it outside. The guts on the inside make it look grosser too! It was so easy and there was no mess! I'm doing it that way every year. I will post a picture of my pumpkin on my blog! Glad you all had fun!
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