Poll Vault: When’s the last time you carved a pumpkin?
Posted October 18, 2013 12:01 am
Illinois is the nation’s leading pumpkin producer, which means you have plenty of options for carving. Digging out all those seeds might drive you out of your gourd, though (rimshot).
Seriously, do you and your family carve pumpkins for Halloween? How elaborate are your designs? What do you do with the seeds?
If you’ve got little ones, do you let them come up with the design before you take over the actual knife work? Or do you paint the pumpkins instead?
GEORGE LECLAIREgleclaire@dailyherald.comStudents made relief sculptures by carving into the rind during one of Natalie DeMeos classes in 2008 at Vanguard School in Arlington Heights.
Its even possible to carve a pumpkin under water, as these divers demonstrated in 2008 in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo, Fla.
Florida Keys News Bureau
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