Shayla Hoyland: Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin carving was a fun time this year. Since I am not that skilled at it and don't have a set of "pumpkin carving tools" I figured a simple old fashioned jack-o-lantern face would do. Easy enough right? My first mistake: was letting our wonderful neighbor Jo show Shayla her beautifully carved decorative dragonfly pumpkin.

Second mistake was how I asked her what she wanted on her pumpkin..I asked "what would you like on your pumpkin?" Instead of getting the response I was expecting "a happy face or a funny face" I got "a butterfly" and there was no changing her mind. Leave it to a toddler..So in a family effort we found several butterfly options, trying to make it as simple as possible..good luck making a pumpkin carved butterfly easy.. Daddy found a good template for us to use.


I like this one daddy

Now the fun gooey part! Shayla had fun with this!

A little help from grandma!

Reach in:

What do I find ooey, gooey stringy stuff:

What fun we can have with this stuff:


How far do you think I can stretch it?

Daddy's turn next. Mommy will just cut herself if we let her try carve the pumpkin. So daddy gets out his handy carving tools..steak & paring knife and goes hard to work.