Due to the hectic week ahead, we decided to spend Monday evening carving pumpkins with the boys. Unfortunately, getting the pumpkins CARVED was a challenge.
Ian’s pumpkin was too tough to cut into and Matthew’s took so long that we didn’t have time to carve the others. We’re planning to paint Ian’s pumpkin and carve the other 2 pumpkins later this week.
Here are some pictures of our carving experience from last night….
At first we let Ian clean the pumpkin with his hands. That didn’t last long because it was “too icky” (followed by a tongue out, “yuck” noise) and his hands needed “washed off” after every scoop of pumpkin guts. haha
We gave him a spoon to scoop with but that was pretty useless…
Eventually he just had to sit and watch Daddy do it!
Checking to make sure it was really empty (Look! Matthew was there too!):
Carving the face:
The finished product:
Lit up with candles (we had to use birthday candles because we couldn’t find anything else):
