Day 45: Cookie Cutter Pumpkin Decorating

Every year we love to pick out a pumpkin and take it home to decorate.

We have decorated them in all different ways. This year we decided to try carving our pumpkin using the cookie cutter method.

This works best with metal cookie cutters but we used plastic ones too and they work fine.

First, cut the top off the pumpkin and clean out the insides. Our pumpkin must not have been very ripe because the flesh was very thick and there were very few seeds. We like to season our seeds with cinnamon and sugar and bake them until on 200 until they are dry.

 

Place the cutter where you want on the pumpkin and tap with a hammer until it cuts through the flesh of the pumpkin. 

Our pumpkin was to thick to get the cutter all the way through so we had to use a knife as well.
We have never done real jack o' lanterns but this year that is what Landon wanted to do. We used a star cutter for the eyes, a leaf cutter for the "angry" eyebrows, we cut a triangle for the nose, and used a crescent moon cutter for the mouth.

Landon was very proud!

Last year our pumpkin molded very quickly but I read that spraying it every day with a little bleach will prevent that from happening as fast. I will be trying that this year.

And if carving is not for you here is some inspiration from our pumpkin a few years ago.

 

 

 

This Horton pumpkin was made from 2 pumpkins, apples on dowel rods, foam sheets, and foil. It landed my little monkey and me 1st place in a pumpkin decorating contest! Fun times and good memories! Pin It