Pumpkin on the Halloween 2014

What Halloween without lamp from pumpkin with the cut-out terrible mug? Production of such lamp can seem difficult, however actually the child - of course, under your sensitive management will be able to make pumpkin on the Halloween even!

Pumpkin on the Halloween reminds us of an ancient Irish legend about the drunkard Jack who managed to deceive the devil (we already gave this legend, telling about celebration of the Halloween). To make pumpkin on the Halloween independently, it will be necessary for you:

• actually pumpkin
• marker, felt-tip pen or handle
• sharp kitchen knife
• stationery knife
• spoon
• candle
• alcohol and cotton wool

For a start choose pumpkin. It can be bought and if you have the kitchen garden is in general finely! Than pumpkin and the more correct it a form is larger - the it will be easier for you to make of it a lamp. Most effectively bright yellow and bright orange pumpkins look.

Before starting cutting out, wash pumpkin. That on it it was easier to draw a marker future mug, it is possible to wipe pumpkin alcohol, however it is not obligatory at all. Then lead round a marker "lid" which will need to be cut out. The top part of pumpkin needs to be cut off carefully a sharp knife. If you cut out pumpkin on the Halloween together with children, they should not be trusted this manipulation! The cover still is useful to you therefore cut out it accurately and do not throw out. In a ready opening there has to pass freely the hand.

Then it is possible to start fascinating occupation - a pulp vyskrebaniye. The pumpkin is riper, the it will be easier to make it. It is better to scrape out pulp from pumpkin by means of a spoon. You should not throw out it - the pulp can be used for preparation of various dishes from pumpkin on the Halloween, for example, of porridges or soups. And many also pumpkin sunflower seeds pogryzt wish - not to forget the main thing them before the use to wash, dry and roast. So cutting of pumpkin on the Halloween is waste-free production in literal sense.

Having got all pulp from pumpkin, it is possible to start doing it "face". At first draw a muzzle with a marker (children with pleasure will imagine unusual "look" for pumpkin). Then on ready drawing cut out openings, it is best of all to do it by a sharp and thin stationery knife. It is besides better to entrust cutting of pumpkin on the Halloween to the adult. Get the cut-out slices from pumpkin and do not throw out - they can be used for decoration of the room. If after cutting on pumpkin there were marker traces - it is possible to wipe them by means of alcohol and cotton wool.

Ready pumpkin has to dry out (on it not less than 12 hours will be required) therefore to cut out pumpkin One Halloween better in advance. Then place a candle (most convenient to use candles tablets) in pumpkin, light it, cover pumpkin with a lid - and Jack's lamp is ready! By the way, in a cover it is better to make a pricker in advance some openings that pumpkin better left the warm air rising up - but not that it will inadvertently be roasted from within.

Of course, it is the most general manufacturing techniques of pumpkin on the Halloween. You are able to allow the imagination to clear up to the full extent. For example, it is possible to cut out two pumpkins - very big and absolutely tiny, having thrust the baby "into a mouth" to big pumpkin. If you do not want to do pumpkin with the person as at all, by means of the hand drill it is possible to drill the small openings making an unusual openwork pattern in pumpkin. And some handymen so well seized cutting of pumpkins that manage to turn pumpkins into the real works of art! This hobby is called "carving" and is subject, alas, not all - to it should study persistently. And it is possible "to dress up" simply pumpkin on the Halloween, having pulled down from above a peaked vedminsky hat.

Now you see that pumpkin on the Halloween the hands it is very simple. Such "Jack's lamp" will serve as an element of a decor and will help to create the festive atmosphere.