Last year on a local selling board, we entered Minxy and Mister into a pumpkin competition. It was aimed at children and yet as we flicked through the pictures we noticed a continuing theme. Each child had help with their carvings.
So we decided our entry would be a little different.
Instead of actually carving the pumpkin, we let the munchkins loose with the contents of their craft box.
This was the end result...
(Apologies for the poor quality but I had to pull this off of Facebook)
We can say very proudly that we were completely over the moon when the above won the Munchkins first prize in the competition. Everyone agreed that in a competition for children, they were the only ones who created their designs all by themselves!
So this year we decided they could do the same. They're still too young to attack any kind of object with a sharp knife so its the safest option and they have such great fun with it!
And of course no creative session is complete without a little mess...
The pumpkins will go up on display at home for Halloween.
The following day, all pumpkins are placed on the garden table and that night the witches go from house to house collecting Halloween pumpkins to use in their magic spells...
Mimi & Hoggle.
