* besides facesAny good advice in how to make the perfect jack o' lantern?
Wal-Mart and other stores have pumpkin carving booklets. They come with designs you tape on the pumpkin, then punch holes around the design, then cut it out. It also comes with the tools. A pumpkin will only last maybe two weeks at the most. So, wait until maybe a week or so before Halloween.Any good advice in how to make the perfect jack o' lantern?
In October 1990 I cracked a coconut, removing the bottom and scraping all the meat from inside. Keeping 2/3 of the coconut, the portion with the point, then drilled small holes forming the shape of
a mouth, one hole for the nose, two holes for the eyes. My young daughter then colored the whole coconut using magic marker.
Green for the point on its head, orange for the rest, and white for the spacings between the holes that formed the mouth, so it looks like teeth.
I then wrote the date inside, with a ball point pen. It has maintained its color perfectly, looks like it was made yesterday.
you can go online for free stencils and go to %26lt;buypumpkinteeth.com%26gt; they have cool teeth that you stick into pumpkins!And try carving a Watermelon,Leave a little red so you can see threw your carved eyes and mouth.With the green striped outside red inside and white fangs its awsome and the pumpkins last longer because ussaly the teeth start to decay first being smaller
Here are some sites where u can print patterns to cut by.
As far as keeping it from rotting, i dont know. i would just wait a few weeks to cut it. once u cut it, u expose it to air and it rots quickly.
One tip tho, dont use a steak knife bc the pumkin is slippery and u can injure urself.... especially dont injure urself after locking urself out of ur house.... bad idea.
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You can write words in it or you could carve a ghost.There is a spray that keeps pumpkins from rotting
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