Pumpkin Carving with the Kids

Today I helped the three kiddies get their pumpkins carved just in time for this years Halloween. Holly made three pumpkins this year. Two of them she used the stick on plastic features and the third one I helped her carve a simple face and then she painted it with acrylic paints. We must have spent about an hour and half doing her pumpkins and she absolutely loved it.

 

Once the boys returned from their Cubs camp they saw Holly's pumpkins and wanted to crack on with their own ones. Josh did pretty amazing this year and for the first year ever he pretty much carved the whole pumpkin himself. He found a design that he wanted to carve and asked me to draw it on the pumpkin for him, then he did all the carving on his own. Brandon needed a bit more help with his carving. His one was made harder as he had picked an albino type of pumpkin which had a much tougher texture than the conventional orange ones.

 

The problem now is that I have spent all the time helping the kids and they have used up all the pumpkins meaning I haven't carved one myself this year (yet!).

 

Not sure how safe this is letting Holly loose with a knife and a pumpkin!

 

Holly scooping out a load of guts from a pumpkin.

Holly's first pumpkin creation using stick on plastic facial features.

This is her second pumpkin although it looks more like a marrow. I love this one.

For Holly's smaller third pumpkin I helped her carve the face and then she set t work painting it.

Holly really enjoyed using the acrylic paints.

Looking at how thick that paint is, I would say this could take a while to dry.

Joshua sets to work scooping out the guts of his pumpkin.



Brandon scooping out a rather unusual albino type of pumpkin.

I drew the pattern on Joshua's pumpkin, but he did all the carving on his own and did a fab job.

Joshua's cat pumpkin starting to take shape.

Joshua's finished work of art.

The pumpkin cat looks amazing when lit up.

Brandon trying his best but needing some help as this was a tough pumpkin to carve.

Brandon tried his hardest.



The end result came out OK. Looks a bit like Jigsaw if you ask me.

And here is Brandon's pumpkin all lit up and looking spooky.