It's that time of year for all things ghoulish and spooky. We've never really 'celebrated' (seems the wrong word somehow) Hallowe'en before as The Boy has a low tolerance for anything vaguely malevolent and asks a hell of a lot of questions. Yesterday at St. Fagan's outdoor museum in Cardiff, there was a fantastic scene set up for the Hallowe'en festivities, but of course there was fake blood and skeletons strewn everywhere. How do you explain that to a three year old who's asking what the bones are for?
However, one of the best bits of Hallowe'en for children is pumpkin carving, and this year we had a go at it for the first time ever!
The Boy drew the outline of the eyes on and the position of the mouth, I did the rest. He was completely and utterly captivated by the finished product and as a result, I have to go and buy another pumpkin tomorrow to carve another one out!
This was our finished pumpkin!
What do you think?
Instagram and twitter are full of everyone's fantastic carvings at the moment, and so I thought I'd set up a linky for you to show off your pumpkins! Pumpkin carving seems to bring out the artist in all of us.
Please join in below with your carvery skills, show off your witches, wizards, ghouls and goblins.
If you don't have a blog, link up the Instagram or twitpic URL.
Great stuff! We haven't done ours yet they are littering the house looking lovely though! Tomorrow is the day!
Make sure you come back and link up please?
the photo of The Boy in the light of the pumpkin is amazing.
Thank you, I am really pleased with that photo!
the boy designed a fab pumpkin and what a great idea to let him design it too.
Hope you'll share the one Burton did with daddy?
I love your pumpkin, it has a lot of personality! Looking forward to this in a couple of years x
It's far more fun that I envisaged!
Fabulous eyebrows!!! the boy has a definite "eye" for pumpkin design!
They're great aren't they?
That is a friendly looking pumpkin, it slightly reminds me of Bits and Bobs from cBeebies. We haven't got a pumpkin yet but I'll be back to link up when we do.
Aww the boy looks very proud of his pumpkin 🙂
I love it, it looks happy
That's a very spooky looking pumpkin!!
That linky site is not Android friendly. I ended up powering up the PC in the end.
I knew you wouldn't be able to resist! Thanks for joining in and sorry about Linky Tools!
Well it's the only thing I'm really good at!
I managed to link from Android. Great LINKY Xx
You did a great job. Love the soulful eyes of your pumpkin.
Love the linky, thanks! Yours look fab. Wish I'd thought of Peppa before I did the Mickey one – that was v hard work!!
That's a great pumpkin! Unfortunately Sainsburys ran out of pumpkins, so … I carved a watermelon!!
Carved a watermelon, that's so funny, did it work?
wow what a lovely load of Pumpkins! I wish we hadn't done ours about 2 weeks early and it hadn't of collapsed a week before Halloween! lol!
Hope you are open till tomorrow night, I have some lovely pumpkins and more coming up on Country Kids this week
Your pumpkin is awesome! What a nice linky party! Fiona (Coombe Mill) sent me your way with our Family Fall Fun Fest!
Love your pumpkin, that photo of The Boy laying infront of it is gorgeous x