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Yes, that’s me in the snazzy cream Daniel Hechter sweat top and feathered perm-mullet. Despite my days of pumpkin gut glory, I have actually grown to dread carving jack-o-lanterns. This is the beauty of carving parties
you can sit on your arse sipping a creepy cocktail while others do the work for you. You look like a stellar parent for organizing a fun event for your children, without lifting a boney finger. Scary smart, right?Here's how to host a Pumpkin Carving Party:
Send out invitations and ask each guest to BYOP (bring your own pumpkin). Do you really want to buy and lug home a pile of pumpkins?
Line your table with plastic or newsprint and secure underneath with tape.
Put out buckets for collecting the pumpkin guts and bowls for collecting the seeds for roasting later.
Provide plastic carving tools, markers for drawing faces, templates to trace. Find some simple templates here.
After the carving is done, enjoy some spooky snacks and toast your scary good creative skills with a glass of 'Pumpkin Punch' (orange juice, orange pop and frozen pineapple juice ice cubes).
Happy carving everybody!
Lisa "Scissor Hands" Thornbury
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I have dozens of costumes: vampires, a bat, a Solid Gold Dancer, several monsters, two dinosaurs, a kangaroo, a genie, a construction worker and more—you name it and I probably have it. My kids love to dress up, so we keep past Halloween costumes stored in a "Costume Closet" in our basement.
However, the closet is busting at the seams; one can store only so many wigs and Mexican sombreros before it becomes a "hoarding" situation.
When I heard about National Costume Swap Day I was intrigued. This might be the perfect way to unload several outgrown clown costumes, while picking up some new spooky threads.
"Trade costumes instead of buying new ones"—this simple idea has blossomed into an international movement, which Canada joins in 2012.
"Rather than picking out a costume at a big box store, kids have the chance to find something unique, build their own look and use their imaginations," say founders Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell.
Here are the details:
DATE: October 13, 2012
LOCATION: Cities and towns across Canada {search for a location near you here}
HOW SWAPS WORK: Drop your old costumes at the door and find a new one before you leave. Tables will be piled high with costumes and accessories. Search for a hat here or a funky pair of glasses there and try on different looks. "It makes recycling costumes doable, fun, charming and personally engaging for everyone because it’s simple, it’s affordable and it’s cool. Turn into a vampire, ghost or zombie, go have fun, score some candy—but first, swap."
For more information visit: www.costumeswapdaycanada.com
National Costume Swap Day™ Canada is a program of www.CostumeSwapDay.com and produced by Our Big Earth Media Co.