Spooktacular Halloween 2014

Growing up I loved dressing up for halloween.  I got to pretend to be someone else for one night, and my neighbors rewarded me with candy for doing it!  I sure miss those days, now its just me walking down the candy aisle knowing I'll hate myself later for what I bought.  But as a mom, I get to enjoy all the perks of Halloween all over again.  At three, Zoey is just now getting into the costume fun and this year we bought her first pumpkin!  I personally am allergic to pumpkin, so when I carve them my arm turns into one giant hive.  She's still pretty young, and even though we bought a smaller pumpkin, I still wanted to avoid the carving and the pumpkin gut mess for at least one more year.

During one of my typical Target trips on my lunch hour, I ran across this really sweet pumpkin decorating kit by Mr. Potato Head at Target this afternoon.  It cost me a whole $8.00 and allowed me to avoid the mess and hives for one more year.  The best part is... It's reusable! Remove the pieces, wash them off and store them away for next year.  Some of you may prefer to use the pieces from your child's Mr. Potato Head in their toy box, and that's perfectly fine, however, even on small pumpkin we bought, the parts were awkwardly small.  

This set comes with 12 pieces that look just like potato head pieces.  Since the kit is kid friendly, there aren't any sharp edges to acutally puncture the pumpkin with.  And of course I didn't buy a carving kit today, so I had to get a little resourceful.  

I grabbed my handy dandy meat thermomater.  I punctured the pumpkin, where we previously planned out the face, and I had to move it the thermometer in small circles to enlarge the hole a little, but after a little elbow grease, we were ready to decorate our pumpkin.  Since Zoey was already familiar with Mr. Potato Head, the rest was just her having fun.

Happy Decorating Everyone!