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CARVE A JOLLY PUMPKIN
In many countries, a festival called Halloween is celebrated every year on the last day of October. It comes from an ancient Celtic festival, where people believed spirits were out and about. People wore costumes to confuse the ghosts and made pumpkin lanterns to put by their doors.
Choose a plump pumpkin from your garden or a shop. To make it last as long as possible, wait to carve it until just a day or two before Halloween. Draw a face on your pumpkin using your marker. It can be scary, funny, or both! Make sure you keep the eyes, nose and mouth far apart.
Ask a grown-up helper to cut out the top of the pumpkin, carving round the stem to make a little ‘hat’.
Using your spoon, scrape all the squishy, squashy bits out from the inside. Now ask your grown-up to cut out the eyes, nose and mouth. You
can even make ears, if you like! Wipe off any extra marker
marks with damp kitchen roll.
Put your smiling pumpkin head where everyone can admire him, either inside your front window or outside on your front step. Place an LED light or lit tealight inside, pop his hat back on top and stand back to admire your jolly pumpkin!
For extra Halloween fun, you could also decorate mini pumpkins or squash by drawing faces on them with dark
permanent markers!
You will need:
washable marker pens a large carving knife a large metal spoon
a tealight or LED light kitchen roll
permanent marker pens (optional)