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How And When To Carve A Halloween Pumpkin
Take a jaunt around nearly any neighborhood in America, and you will see home completely decked in Halloween decorations. At some point, Halloween passed Christmas as the holiday most associated with kitschy ornamentation in your front yard. This makes perfect sense: You already wear costumes on Halloween, so why not dress up your house as well? People seem to be decorating their houses earlier and earlier each year, with many homes completely littered with skeletons and cobwebs by mid-September.
There is one major part of Halloween decoration that you cannot put out a month in advance, and it is the most Halloween decoration of all—the jack-o’-lantern! Ideally, you should wait until the second half of October to go pumpkin picking. And then you should not carve your pumpkin until a few days before Halloween, otherwise it will begin to rot before the big night.
So, now is the time to begin your pumpkin carving plans in earnest. There are some great pumpkin carving kits still available on Amazon.
This 12-piece carving set includes 8 double-sided tools and a saw. The saw is big enough to get the job done but not so big that you need to worry about your kids’ safety:
This 11-piece carving set offers a different method: nine of the tools are stencils in the shapes of common pumpkin facial features:
You may not have even thought about it, but to make a true jack-o’-lantern, you need candles in addition to your carving materials. This 17-piece set comes with 5 LED candles (so you don’t have to fear the possibility of igniting a fire). As a bonus, you get an e-book with detailed instructions on how to make some of the most popular faces:
