You’ll get a beautiful glow without the heat! Fairy lights are a favorite substitution. Instead, you can fill a mason jar with a battery-powered strand of LED lights. With kids and dogs and the amount of foot traffic near your pumpkin on Halloween, the traditional candle may not be the safest and tends to blow out. Trade the Candle for Something Less Flammable This setup will also help keep that perfect shape to your pumpkin. How easy is that! Just don’t make your bottom removal too big. This way, you can place your candle right on the porch, or step, or sill and place the pumpkin over the top. Balance your pumpkin stem side down on a high bowl, and cut a circle out of the bottom. The “lid” also shrinks and caves in after time, and you have to reach into the pumpkin to place a candle on the uneven bottom and light it that same way. But whose idea was that anyway? Once you remove your pumpkin top, water from rain seeps in as the pumpkin sits and helps decay your pumpkin quicker.
Someone somewhere decided that the best way to remove the pumpkin’s innards was by cutting a circle around the stem and removing it like a lid.
These helpful tips and techniques are sure to make your carving process easier (and prettier) this year. Immigrants then brought this tradition to America, where it was soon learned that a fruit native to the country, the pumpkin, made the perfect “Jack-O-Lanterns.”Ĭarving a pumpkin is a Halloween tradition no one wants to skip, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to improve your Jack-O-Lantern routine.
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The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern” and then simply “Jack-O-Lantern.” For centuries the people of Ireland would carve faces into turnips and potatoes and keep them in windows and near doors to frighten away “Stingy Jack” and other evil spirits. The tradition originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” As the story has it, Jack was left to wander the earth, after being denied access to both Heaven and Hell, with a piece of burning coal, which he kept inside a carved turnip. That’s right, the practice of carving the Jack-O-Lantern started in Ireland. Pumpkins with ghoulish faces illuminated by candles are a sure sign of Halloween, but do you know where the tradition of carving pumpkins started? Ireland. Halloween is right around the corner, and one of the most popular traditions of the season is carving pumpkins, and who wouldn’t want to know some tips and tricks to make the process a little easier and preserve the life of your pumpkin?
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