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Do you usually carve pumpkins for Halloween? Did you carve one this year? If so, tell us about it in the comments. We love carving pumpkins!
My wife will take a knife and spoon and carve it out of the can and then make my favorite pie.
😆 Yum! 😀 –Diane
My granddaughter always brings her pumpkin to me for carving.
While she continues to do so, I will continue to carve it up.
We used to carve them when the kids were growing up. We would toast the seeds, too! Yummy snack. We don’t carve them anymore, but I miss those days.
We did carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns in the past. Whether “we” do so this year depends on whether DW directs me to do so, or not. I am guessing it will be “not.”
With our kid long gone & far away & no Trick or Treaters stopping at our rural home, we don’t do it anymore. We buy a small bag of candy, just in case. Then after Halloween we eat it a little at a time. 5 miles out of the nearest tiny town (population about 200), we just don’t have people dropping by.
Nope. We paint faces on with the grand kids then they cart them home. We leave ours plain then toss them in the woods for the deer, turkeys and darn squirrels.
The squirrels seem to carve our’s before we can get around to it.
Did carve in the past but no longer do. DW still has them setting out to accent the mums and other hween things
Kids are grown so now I paint a face on it, add a hat, and make cooked pumpkin on November 1 – homemade pumpkin bread and treats for my doggie.
We always did when our kids were home but now our jack-o-lanterns are plastic. We do set out real pumpkins for decoration and then feed them to the animals when done.