Carving Pumpkins

Our pumpkin carving moved to a whole new level this year....using power tools.  I made the mistake of showing Young something on Pintrest...a really cool pumpkin decorated using a drill.  Being our carving artist, he took that photo and ran with it.  Next thing I knew he was surfing Youtube for tutorials on how to use power tools to carve pumpkins.  We did a quick trip to Target and came home with some new drill bits and a new jig saw.  He and Timo were on cloud nine carving our pumpkins.

A few days later Timo's teacher contacted me about coming to the class to carve a pumpkin for the children and then bring the pumpkin home to use to make the pumpkin cupcakes, which I was making for the class Halloween party later that week.  The whole circle of life thing.  Well, one thing lead to another, Young took over and ended up carving pumpkins for both Timo's and Cameorn's class.  The kids LOVED it...and so did Young!

He started out step by step in carving and got the most reaction from pulling the "guts" out.  Both classes went crazy silly when they saw the insides.

He used both tools as well as some other carving tools I picked up at Target for him, carving a silly/scary face on one side and letting the children use the power drill to make the class number on the the other side.

Young then moved on to Cameron's class with equal response of excitement from the kids.  We were kinda running out of time by the end of their class so I don't have lit version or the backside but here is room 102's pumpkin.

Two nights later I find Timo and Cameron doing this with their tools on our little sugar pie pumpkin...like father, like son...

Young already has a list of tools he's gonna need for the job next year...