Carving Pumpkins

When picking pumpkins the rule is you have to be able to carry it yourself.

This year all the kids wanted to expand that to carving it themselves too. We agreed, but they had to get the guts out themselves first. I got home to three little boys covered in goo and declaring, "I'm a man!" "I'm a man too!" "Me too, I'm a man too!" Playing in pumpkin guts is a serious right of passage into manhood. :-D Garrett has serious issues with anything "icky" on his hands. He'd pull out a handful of guts then wipe his hand on a towel, pull out a handful, wipe on a towel, till it was all emptied out. He did achieve manhood though.

We gave them a paper with a big circle to put their design on, transfered it to the pumpkin, then they carved it all by themselves...even Lincoln did his own design and carving.

Carving the faces they designed themselves.

Garrett cut off one of his teeth and decided his jack-o-lantern was yelling, "I lost my first tooth!"

Pretty good carving for a 3 year old.

Lynneah was having issues but she recovered...

Then she made this design all by herself too; she did NOT carve it, Stephen got to. ;-D

 

Kenzie was happy to fling a snake around.