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Solar Pumpkins Jigsaw Puzzle

Put together this fun pumpkin puzzle, perfect for Halloween! Do you do the corners first or set up the perimeter? Maybe you group the pieces or sort and solve by color. Any way, and every way, you put together puzzles is perfect. When you get a piece in the right place, you’ll hear a chime [...]

How to Grow Pumpkins for Halloween

While picking a pumpkin for Halloween can be as simple as going to your local grocery store and paying for one there you can extend the fun of Halloween by growing your own pumpkin. This can be a great project to do with your kids since they can be involved in the planting, growing and [...]


The Right Tools for Extreme Pumpkin Carving

Extreme Halloween pumpkin carving has become an art form in its own right. Halloween revelers everywhere compete to outdo each other on who has the best out of this world carving on their Halloween pumpkin. It is easy to see that this type of carving is not done with a kitchen knife or a pumpkin [...]

What You Should Know About Growing Pumpkins for Halloween

If you want to grow your own pumpkin for Halloween there are certain tips that will insure you a successful result. While growing a pumpkin is certainly not hard experienced pumpkin growers have paved the way by recommending certain techniques for growing a pumpkin that will blow your family and friends away when Halloween arrives. [...]


Reasons to Study Halloween Traditions

Maybe you carve pumpkins with your family every year, but you have never thought about the history behind the tradition. Make this year the year that you make a tradition of researching the origins of this and other holiday traditions. By teaching your children how Holidays came to be and why we do the things [...]

Pumpkins and Halloween Go Hand in Hand

There are several different stories about how pumpkins came to be part of our Halloween traditions. They are all interesting, and although pumpkin carving was first done in the Americas, all of the stories come from Europe. Halloween originated almost 3000 years ago with the Celtic people of Western Europe. In those times, the end [...]


Pumpkin Carving With Patterns

It’Halloween time again, and you really want to decorate in a spectacular fashion. The highlight of any Halloween decorations has to be a wonderfully carved Halloween pumpkin. But perhaps you are unsure of how to really upgrade the design of your pumpkin. How can you really make your Halloween pumpkin stand out? The answer is [...]

Carving Your Pumpkin In Eight Easy Steps

The highlight of preparing and enjoying Halloween just may be carving a Halloween pumpkin. While in years past many pumpkin carvers stuck to the tried and true formula of triangle eyes, a round nose and crescent smile (perhaps with a few carved jack o’ lantern teeth) today’crafty carvers are turning their pumpkins into works of [...]

Safety Tips For Pumpkin Carving

Halloween is supposed to be a time of fun and excitement, but oftentimes in the rush to plan, prepare and decorate, we overlook safety precautions we should be taking. And then instead of attending that fun Halloween party or trick or treating, we are waiting in the emergency room of the local hospital (most often [...]

Halloween Pumpkin Village

When Halloween rolls around, the pumpkin patches in the area become a center of constant traffic as potential pumpkin carvers come to pick that perfect pumpkin. While in days past you may have only seen a traditional face carved on Halloween pumpkins, today it seems anything goes. Crafty pumpkin carvers are coming up with lots [...]

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