Ms. Feiner’s Class Blog

    Do you ever see carved pumpkins and wonder how they make them? Do you ever go to a pumpkin party and you wish you knew how to make your own pumpkins? Do your friends ever give you supplies to carve pumpkins but you don’t  know how? Well if your answer is ”yes” to any of these questions, then you will want to read on. This article will tell you how to carve pumpkins.

   First, go to a pumpkin patch and buy a pumpkin or you may choose to grow one and buy a candle and lighter (if you dont have one already). If you ask me you might want to buy a lot of candles. Make sure you buy a enormous, huge, and gigantic pumpkin, the bigger the better!

    Next, carve a hole around the stem and pull it off. You do this because if you don’t, how are you going to take the goop out? Then grab the goop with your hands and pull it out from the inside of the pumpkin. The pumpkin should be spotless when you are done. Wash your hands when you’re done.

    Then, once you finish taking out the goop, carve a kooky face on the pumpkin or carve anything you want it to have. If you have a speical pumpkin knife, it’s a good idea to use it. But any  knife will do! Don’t cut yourself! One year my family and I  made a cat on it and a Frankenstein’s face.

     After that, take out the lighter and candle and light the candle. You should be very careful. Place the candle into the pumpkin through the hole on the top. Make sure you don’t burn yourself. You do this because when you put your pumpkin outside, you’ll want people to see what you carved!

    After you light up your pumpkin, put the lid back on. When you carved around the stem, that piece that became seperate, put it back on the top.

    Then, put your new carved pumpkin, outside around Halloween. If the candle that you put into the pumpkin is still lit, the kooky face that you made on the side of the pumpkin will glow.

    This might be your hardest job yet: Make sure teenagers don’t come around and smash your pumpkin into bits.  If you are so serious about keeping your pumpkin pretty, you may want to check on it every five minutes. Also get a video camera and put it somewhere so that it watches and video tapes your pumpkin at night.  If you catch a teenager smashing your pumpkin on film, you can sue them.

      Finally, you get to admire your pumpkin: do that now.  Some examples of  how to admire your pumpkin is to go to the edge of your yard and look at it, watch it, and tell your neighbors to look at it.

       Well that’s it!  That’s just it!  You carved a  pumpkin!  If you’re just reading for fun and you didn’t carve a pumpkin, then get out there and carve that pumpkin!

    Would you like to meet my puppy? She is a kooku bird. Her amazing name is Ally! I got her when she was 10 days old. Ally is a yorkiepoo! I am wondering if you would like to meet my cat, Signmund? He is 16 years old. I think that is a wonderful number. Ally and Signmund like to fight. Dunt Dunt Da!!

   When they see each other, Signmund whacks Ally in the face and then he whacks her in the face again. Then Ally bites Signmund’s tail and she pulls hard.When they do this, I sit in a chair and watch.I think it is funny because after she bites his tail, she crawls under him and stands  up!  Signmund does not like this and He tries to get a way, it does not work and Ally does it anyway. 

    The fights ends when Signmund manages to get away over the gate. I bet he is so relieved that he got away. He also might be thinking “Boy, I’m glad thats over.” But Ally jumps up on the gate, feeling sad and despondent  that Signmund got away. It’s always a great show!!