Making a pumpkin lantern...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 

To make your pumpkin lantern...

You will need: 

• an adult
• somewhere that doesn't matter if it gets sticky (an old table outside?)/a newspaper
• a sharp knife
• a pumpkin
• a spoon 
• a tea light

Get your friendly adult to slice the lid off the pumpkin and then
you can use the spoon to scrape away the seeds.
If you dry the seeds you can use them for a necklace.

Scrape the seeds out of the pumpkin too.

Draw a picture of the face you want on the front.

Draw the face on the pumpkin and get your pet adult to cut it out -
unless you're old enough to do it yourself with an adult beside you.

It can be fiddly.

Make sure you slice the pumpkin flesh away right through
or the candle light won't show up. 

Finally, Jake cut little triangles out around the lid on the little pumpkin.
We've heard that if you rub salt on the  inside they last longer.
But not if they're left out in the rain.

Ooohhhhhhhh! Happy Halloween!!!!

We've heard Americans are much better at this than we are and have lots of special tools and templates they can buy in stores. Well done you guys! But we had fun anyway.