After planting, fertilizing, pollinating, watering, growing and harvesting pumpkins…..there’s just one thing left to do……… Carve ’em! and that’s what we did tonight and I took lot’s of great pumpkin carving pics:
What I’ve learned about carving pumpkins, Step by step carving techniques:
- Cut the top off for the kiddos’
- Draw your design on the pumpkin (do a couple on paper first)
- Follow said design the best you can
- Use serrated knife, steak knife to saw through pumpkin flesh.
- Have the little ones pull out the pumpkin innards and keep paper towels on hand.
- Follow said design the best you can
- Turn the lights out to take pics
- Strain out the seeds and make baked pumpkin seeds by drying seeds with a paper towel, spray pan with Pam. sprinkling seeds with salt, pepper and garlic. Put in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 min.
- Eat seeds with cider.
- Repeat.
- Always remember that older people don’t like to carve a pumpkin for themselves but they do enjoy helping kiddos with there pumpkin.
- take lot’s of pics.
