Halloween is not the same without a pumpkin just like Christmas is not the same without the three. You can buy a carved one but if you want to do it yourself, here is how you do it. You first have to go to the supermarket and get a pumpkin. You can make this a family activity with your kids by letting them choose it. Once this is brought home, both of you can decide what kind of face the pumpkin will have. It can be happy, angry or something funny that your neighbors will find entertaining.
With a pen, they can outline the face so once everything inside the pumpkin is removed, you can easily cut holes for the eyes, nose and mouth.
But before you do that, put the pumpkin on a flat surface that is already covered with newspaper. Get a long serrated knife and then cut out a circle around the stem of the pumpkin and place this on top of the newspaper.
With the pumpkin open, it will be easy for you and your kids to put your hands inside and get the contents out. Since these are still edible put them in a container so you can use this later on to make a salad or a pumpkin pie. There will probably be a few things left inside so use a large spoon to get the remaining stuff.
Don't forget to clean the lid of the pumpkin too. You should also put holes here so heat can escape when you this is placed back on top with a candle inside.
Now it is time to cut the marked areas for the face of the pumpkin. For this, you will once again use the serrated knife by cutting around the edges so you can easily push this out with your hand. After you done this, put a candle inside or a small electric light so people will be able to see your wonderful creation at night.
If you decide to use a candle, monitor it regularly since the wind could blow out the light. If you don't want to do this, choose a small electric light instead since the light will only go out when you switch it off or unplug this from the socket.
Your experience in carving one pumpkin will make it easier to make a few more so you can put one outside and maybe a couple of them indoors. Since an open pumpkin does not that long, you have to prepare these the night before.
But there are ways to preserve the pumpkin so this will not rot overnight. Your first option will be to place it inside a bathtub of cold water and pouring in some picking powder which keeps keep the pumpkin from drying out and fresh. You can also preserve this by putting it inside the refrigerator when it is not being displayed.
Halloween happens once a year so a lot of people make the most of it by decorating the house and preparing the decorations. Some people recycle what they used last year while others buy new ones and one of them is the pumpkin. For the family to be able to help out in carving the pumpkin, the first thing you have to do is get it from the grocery, cut it open using a serrated knife, taking the contents out and then putting a candle or small light.
You might have heard of things that go bump in the night but apart from cracking your shin against furniture in the dark, have you heard something else go bump during the night? Did wake up with the feeling that there had been a sound and yet found no cause for it? There are individuals who go through experiences that leave them with only one conclusion and that is that they are living in the constant company of ghosts. In other words, their lives are haunted. The movie Sixth Sense included the now famous line, "I see dead people." Imagine the plight of someone who actually did manage to do exactly that and for their whole life.
We all have different reactions to the concept of ghosts. Some people get scared, some people get all sympathetic, and some look on it as a kind of thrill seeking. One thing however remains common with all people; any apparition no matter how brief or any visual illusion that resembles a ghost fills everyone with fear for at least a few moments. Television shows like Ghost Hunters might be said to enjoy their popularity partly because people truly are curious about ghosts and the rest of audience is waiting for something to leap at them so that they can feel that edge-of-the-seat rush they get from a horror movie.
The hunters in Ghost Hunters are regular folks during daytime and have their day jobs. At night, they visit places reputed to be haunted and basically try to prove that there are no ghosts and that everything can be explained. Most of he time they succeed in doing so and their explanations are logical enough. Unfortunately, there are occasions when our heroes come across something that defies all logic and stubbornly points to paranormal sources.
Ghosts, like the paranormal and other powers like psychic abilities, have not been proven to exist. Hence, the scientific mind will never accept that they are real and will insist that everything seen and felt has natural causes and the people experiencing the sensations are deluded through no fault of their own. However, there are some things that are not so readily explained and neither so simplistically. Science sometimes fails to answer certain phenomena and in the absence of a very real result but no explainable cause, the reasoning human will only conclude that the cause must exist but is simply not visible for some reason.
The concept of a ghost and haunting is recorded way back in human history, making the observer wonder how something so unreal could stay with humanity through so many changes. The common explanation across cultures and religions is that ghosts are the spirits of the dead that are unable to leave this plane for some reason or simply do not realize they are dead because the death was sudden.
Among the various types of ghosts, the poltergeist is the most troublesome because it has the maximum interactivity with humans. It is only thing to feel someone is there and entirely another to have that invisible someone toss things at you and make your life miserable. These are the type considered to be demons. The friendliest type of ghost is the messenger ghost. This ghost knows that the body is dead but stays a bit longer to comfort loved ones.
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