We think this tip from Fresh Home Ideas is simply brilliant. This year try adding cookie cutters and a mallet to your pumpkin carving arsenal for perfect shapes and beautiful designs.
Before you begin, carefully cut a circle around the pumpkin stem, lift off the lid and remove the seeds from the lid and inside the pumpkin.
Here are the five easy steps they provided:
Step 1: Tap Cookie Cutter
Place a cookie cutter on the pumpkin and tap firmly with a rubber mallet until at least half of the cutter has pierced the pumpkin’s shell. (If the pumpkin shell is thin, the cutter may be pounded all the way through the shell.)
Step 2: Remove Cookie Cutter
Remove the cookie cutter, using a needle-nose pliers if needed.
Step 3: Carve Pumpkin
With a small serrated knife (or the serrated saw from a pumpkin carving kit), follow the pattern made from the cookie cutter to cut out the image, making sure to cut all the way through the shell.
Step 4: Remove Shapes
With one hand inside the pumpkin, push out cookie cutter image from the pumpkin and discard.
Step 5: Insert Candle
Place candle inside pumpkin and secure to bottom with hot wax.
Eager to carve your Halloween pumpkin but worried it will be a moldy mess before the 31st? Believe it or not this little packet will do the trick.
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Thanks! Good stuff:)
Love this! Such a great idea!
Great stuff Lindsay. My hands hurt so quickly so this definitely what we’re doing with the little kids. 🙂 Thanks for the share and nice idea with the silica too.
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