Glowing In The Night

Happy November All! I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! I thought I would share with you this pumpkin carving tutorial that is fun for all Disney lovers, (like me!) and all ages! A little after Halloween, but better late than never right?

What you will need for this wonderful project:

1 pumpkin of whatever size you like
1 pumpkin carving kit (I bought mine at Walmart for $2 and it had a book of fun designs you can carve as well)
Candle
Newspaper
Large Bowl
Drill and bits (this is optional, as you can use any size round items you may have laying around your house, I found the drill to be quicker.)

So, start with your pumpkin. Instead of carving out a hole in the top, I carved a hole in the bottom, so I could light the candle, then stick the pumpkin on top. I find this is easier to light then reaching your hand in with a lighter!

After you do that, clean out all the guts and toss them in your bowl. Reserve them for later, I've got a great pumpkin seed recipe I found that leaves them nice and crunchy!

Print off whatever design you would like to go on your pumpkin. In the image I found, I couldn't get to print, so I improvised and drew out my design, which is Tinkerbell and her trailing pixy dust! Tape the drawing to your pumpkin. You may have to make slight folds in the paper, but this is ok!

Take your handy little poker that came with your pumpkin kit, and punch out the outline of your sketch.

This is what it should look like after you poke the holes. Remove the paper, and carve out your drawing, like connecting the dots. Then! Take a marker, or just use your poker, and mark/make holes for the pixy dust trail. I completely forgot to take pictures of the next part, because I got so excited it was so cute!Take your drill, and drill random size holes and make sure your bits are long enough to go through the entire pulp of the pumpkin. After allllll of that, grab your candle and light up your pumpkin and Voila! Your done!

  

This is what it should look like! So cute right?

Now, onto what to do with those pumpkin seeds! Here's an awesome recipe from Oh She Glows ! We ended up having to cook ours for about 5-10 minutes longer to really get them to crisp up. I would also recommend adding whatever type of flavor you enjoy on your seeds to make them even more delicious! 

Thanks for hanging out for this tutorial!

-A