Pumpkin Carving

It was a lot of fun carving pumpkins this year. We hadn't carved any since we lived in Illinois in 2007. I let Liam and Jonas pick out their own pumpkins and I picked one out for myself too. I also got a small one for Adele that I thought she might want to play around with. Nate didn't want one of his own, probably because he knew he'd be carving most of the boys for them. I made them pull all of their own guts out. I love the feel of all of the slimy stuff inside but they were pretty grossed out. :)




We kept reminding them that this was part of carving pumpkins. If you want to do the fun part you have to do the dirty work too! Adele supervised the whole thing. We roasted the seeds but they didn't turn out that great. I had fun doing it though.

Here is what we ended up with...

Liam's pumpkin

Vanessa's pumpkin

I tried to get a picture of Jonas' pumpkin at one point but we had some listening issues and I had to give up before I got too frustrated. So there is no picture of his. :(

What we did was Liam and Jonas would tell us what they wanted - round eyes, scary eyes, lots of teeth, etc and we would draw different things on paper until it looked the way they wanted. Then we would transfer it onto the pumpkin and carve.

For mine I got a book from the library that had lots of different ideas of things you could do with pumpkins and gourds that didn't involve making faces. This was my favorite idea. The book's was much fancier. Maybe next year. We also decided that next year we are going to let/make the boys carve their own and see what they come up with.