In the spirit of Fall and Halloween this month's preschool project for mini me was to design a pumpkin. We purchased our pumpkin from Walmart at an affordable $2.98 and decided to personalize it by having mini me draw on it with a sharpie before designing a face, his initials and carving it allowing us to add a tea light candle making the perfect personalized jack-o-lantern! … [Read more...]
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Ingredients: 1 1/2 - 2 cups whole pumpkin seeds vegetable oil spray or melted butter dash of sea salt or iodized salt to taste Directions: Preheat oven to 300 degrees, mix seeds in bowl with melted butter or spray with vegetable oil. Add salt and spread the seeds out on a cookie sheet. bake for 30-45 minutes or until seeds are golden brown, toss occasionally. … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Carving Halloween Fun
We visited Ganyard Hill Farm recently and picked three pumpkins. The next thing we planned to do was design and make jack-o-lanterns and lastly roast the pumpkin seeds. I bought a pumpkin carving party kit and we planned a weekend pumpkin carving event. The patterns that came in the kit were too big for our pumpkins, so we (actually my sister) had to improvise and draw … [Read more...]