Korbin Alek Evans

We’ve been learning about pumpkins in school for the past week with little tiny pumpkins, but I wanted to play with one of the big pumpkins, so Friday on the way back from school I convinced my mom to carry home a big pumpkin for carving.  This afternoon was rainy (and now snowing for the first time this year) so my dad and I found this very cool pirate pumpkin that we wanted to make.

My dad helped to cut out the top and then it was time for pulling out the “guts” and separating them from the seeds that we were going to make in the oven.  Once the guts were removed and the inside cleaned, we started on the design.  My dad mostly did the cutting, but I did the part removal and directed the location of the teeth to make sure everything looked right.

Here’s our finished design.  I think it came out pretty good.

Here's the finished pumpkin pirate

And here’s what he looks like in the dark, even spookier….

Here's Pirate Pumpkin in the Dark

He should looks great on Halloween, which unfortunately this year is on a Monday.  We do have pajama day on Monday at my school, so I’m wearing the special knight pajamas I got from this summer.  I’m sure that these will be a great hit at school and will be sure to take a picture or two with them on to share.

This year for Halloween I was going to be a snake ninja, but I changed my mind and opted to go out as Darth Vader with a light saber instead.  It was a good excuse to get my parents to buy my a light saber that I’ve been wanting for a long time too.

Happy Halloween everyone!