Tons of pumpkin fun

5 more days! Yes, the countdown to Halloween has begun! I’m really excited because I love seeing so many pumpkins everywhere.  My friends at the Dallas Arboretum had a great idea for all of their pumpkins.  They made pumpkin houses, pumpkin landscapes and a huge pumpkin village out of them.

It took more than 40,000 pumpkins to create these gardens bursting with fall colors.  That’s a lot of pumpkins.  I don’t have that many pumpkins but even with a couple we can have tons of fun! 

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Most of us only get one or two pumpkins to play with and that’s totally awesome. Before you carve up your pumpkin, take a few minutes to play with them.  What do they feel like?  How big are they compared to things on your body, like your eyes or head?
 
After finding pumpkins as big as our heads and eyes, we decided to have a pumpkin race!! Now don’t do it like my son did when he was two. He thought the pumpkin was like a turtle and put it on a start line and starting cheering! It was quite adorable how he took my pumpkin race so literally.  ​

​What we really do is create pumpkin obstacle courses. Use small pumpkins like orange sports cones and zig-zag in and out of them.  You’ll be surprised how much the kids get into it.  Let them create a course for you too.  We often play so hard that we never get to even carving our pumpkins.  We wind up doing that the next day!  (Last Halloween we actually carved our pumpkins the day after! I guess when I saw I’m flexible when it comes to playing it’s true!)​