This year for Halloween Dimitri and I decided not to do the typical face pumpkin and tried something a little different. We decided to carve Mario and Princess Peach so we found patterns online and printed them off.
They took a lot of work because after cleaning out the pumpkins we had to lay the pattern on top and poke dots all around the lines which is harder than I thought because the pumpkin isn't flat so the paper doesn't stay lined up very well. Then we connected the dots on the pumpkin and finally shaved off the correct areas. We had to shave off more than we thought so the pumpkins would glow so I shaved from the inside with a spoon and Dimitri shaved off on the outside. Both worked well but they took forever (I think it ended up being 4 hours!).
Me shaving off the pumpkin skin.
Dimitri connecting the dots.
All done!!!
Mine glowing.
Dimitri's outside on Halloween night! We had some rave reviews... I think we'll make pumpkins like this next year!