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!
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.