Carving Pumpkins with Stencils

Since it will be October in just a matter of hours and since just yesterday I shared how you can enter your Halloween adventure online, I thought what better time and place than here to show off a couple of photos of some pumpkins by husband carved a couple years ago.

My husband is an artist and an engineer... truly he's very right and left brained... something you don't find all that often. There wasn't a whole lot of engineering involved here (maybe a little), but you can see talent! He made his own stencils, rather than buying them... by finding images of what he wanted to carve online. Pretty cool!

So here we have a mix of Spongebob Squarepants, Mickey Mouse, a monster, and I believe a storm trooper??? lol He basically asked the kids what they wanted him to carve, and he obliged!

This is actually a great activity for the kids... they helped their dad gut out the pumpkins, then helped mom in the kitchen... or at least watched as I rinsed, seasoned, and baked the seeds. They were pretty grossed out by what was inside the shell of the pumpkin, but forgot all about it when the seeds were out of the oven! Oh... this is getting me excited for this year!

I truly love the fall... especially the colors and cooler days, but my favorite thing about Halloween are pumpkins and other gourds... love the way the look, mostly uncarved, but carving is still fun. I also LOVE pumpkin pie and bread. Yum!