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If you're afraid of carving pumpkins, use Mr. Potato Head

mr potato head pumpkins
I love pumpkins, but I always find it a waste to carve them into Jack o' Lanterns. The big pumpkins aren't that good to eat anyway, but even if you get the cute small sugar pie pumpkins, carve them up, and let them sit out in the open air on your front porch for two weeks, you have to throw them away when you're all done. The better thing to do is to decorate pumpkins in a way that you can eat them later. Painting faces on them is fine, but messy and requires time and creativity. Now I'm not saying you're not creative, but there is that time issue.

Thankfully, you can just pick up some Halloween "costumes" for your pumpkins, a la Mr. Potato Head. All of the costume pieces are pushed into the pumpkin, the same way you push them into Mr. Potato Head. These are made specifially for pumpkins, since they're bigger than the toy, but if you're dressing up smaller pumpkins, nothing's stopping you from nabbing your kids' toys out of the playroom and using them!

The Pirate, R2D2, and other "costumes" are available on Amazon.

Filed Under: Ingredients, Holidays
Tags: fruit, halloween, jack o lanterns, pumpkins, vegetables

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

Angela

10-26-2007 @6:42AM Angela said... In the words of Ronald Weasley: "That's a ruddy
Pumpkinhead" from Potter's Goblet of Fire.
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Jason Levine

10-26-2007 @10:32AM Jason Levine said... We bought one of these recently. It should come in handy to let my 4 year old son decorate a pumpkin for Halloween with minimal mess.
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Cate

10-26-2007 @12:33PM Cate said... Yay Sarah's back posting on Slashfood! You're so frickin funny! Good to have you back on my favorite blog!
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