It’s 3 O’Clock on Halloween. We have pumpkins. We have fake blood. We have sweets and chocolate. And we have to go trick-or-treating. So we have to get busy. First off we need a Jack-o’-lantern (that word is not easy to type BTW).
So busy we got. Preparation is the key. Scaring children is the objective! So to get to this:
From this:
You first need to draw out a template. Get a piece of A4 paper, fold it and draw out your design on one half:
Fold the paper over and trace out the lines on the other side:
Cut out your design with scissors and then use selloptape to secure the template onto the pumpkin:
Run a biro around the template to transfer the design to the pumpkin:
Slice off the top of your Lantern-to-be. Gouge out the innards with your hands and a spoon:
Now use a very thin serrated knife (like an evil letter opener) to slice out the eyes and mouth:
Wipe off any remaining biro marks and pop a tea light into the brain cavity:
Now turn off the lights. Evil Jack-o’-lantern appears!
Now send out the minions to gather treats while you hold the fort with a tin of sweets should any foolhardy soul dare to knock…(yes one of them is wearing a plastic bag on his head)
Happy Halloween folks!
Happiness Stan Lives Here 
Excellent job with that pumpkin (see you talked me out of typing that jack o’ phrase) so I’ll stick w/pumpkin. Most of the kids from our neighborhood have moved on to college so we get very few trick or treaters here although there’s a new neighborhood of houses across the way from us & a dad there must have won Dad of the Year Award – he had a big John Deere tractor & built a big wagon & filled it with straw, then hauled all of the kids around in it for a hayride.
Even with those kids though we still ended up with a lot of candy left over. Why is it that my husband insists on buying 6 bags every year? They all seem to be his favorites too.
Well I don’t know about you, but we had loads of trick or treatsters! I think they all told their friends. We soon ran out of sweets, much to my husband’s annoyance. Your pumpkin is evilly beautiful!
We had a quiet night but still managed to run out of sweets – i think our kids ate them all
Looks a little like Walter White after an evening in the desert…
Yes thats a very good comparison. I should have put a pork pie hat on it
Love the orange plastic bag! What type of knife did you use to make the cuts on the scary pumpkin?
It was a (blunt) letter opener – they only thing I could find with a thing blade (borrowed from Ma). The child with plastic bag is nothing if not creative – but the idea I let a child out with a plastic bag on his head sends a slight shiver down my spine – holes or not!
Seriously? A template? Isn’t free-hand the way to go? Ha ha, you should see the pumpkins I carve. Ok, next year, a template :). Happy Hallowe’en! Oh, and, BOO!
Yes its foolproof – and being a bit of a fool I need some proofing.