Last week, we created a post on how not to get your hands dirty while decorating your pumpkin.  This week, were going to cover five fun and creative pumpkin carving ideas that you can share with your neighbors and family.

Pumpkin Got  A Boo-Boo:

This pumpkin needs a band-aid and a kiss!

Materials

• 1 large pumpkin
• Carving tools

• Scissors
• White reflective tape

Instructions

1. Carve a pumpkin with a mouth resembling stitches.
2. Cut white reflective tape into thin strips of varying lengths.
3. Place the strips on the pumpkin as shown.

Vampire Pumpkins:

The adults can do the carving while the kids put in a new set of fangs!

Vampire Tools and Materials

Thumbtack or pin
Small white pumpkin (For a big bite, choose a small pumpkin so the plastic vampire teeth seem huge)
Miniature saw
Plastic vampire teeth
Small red map tacks
Mouth template

Vampire Pumpkin How-To

1. Print mouth template. Lay template on pumpkin, and poke thumbtack through, all along outline, to transfer design. Cut out with saw; remove excess flesh.
2. Wedge teeth into hole.
3. For eyes, pin map tacks onto pumpkin.
4. Fangs, partycity.com. Map pins, 1/8 inch, in Red; latitudesmapstore.net.

Zombie Pumpkins:

Easy white pumpkins with googly eyes and a crooked smile....too cute!

Tools and Materials

Miniature saw
Small pumpkin (For a petrifying pale complexion, look for a white pumpkin)
Plastic eyeballs
Thumbtack or pin

1. For the eyes, hold sharpened chain saw at an angle and cut 2 cone-shaped holes into the pumpkin. The diameter of the holes should be slightly smaller than the eyeballs’ diameter.
2. Print mouth template. Lay template on pumpkin, and poke tack through, all along outline, to transfer design. Cut along that outline with saw, and remove excess flesh.
3. Wedge eyeballs into holes.

Fishy Food Chain Jack O’ Lantern:

Carve a pumpkin top into a fish and bind it together with toothpicks!

Materials

• 1 large pumpkin
• 2 small pumpkins
• Carving tools

• Toothpicks
• 1 small gourd

 

Instructions

1. Carve the pumpkins as shown, cutting the mouths from the tops of the pumpkins. Break off the stems.
2. Cut a small piece from the large fish’s tail fin and secure it to the head with toothpicks.
3. Use toothpicks to attach the tail fins to the bottoms of the pumpkins.
4. Secure a gourd in the large fish’s eye socket with toothpicks.

Shish-Ka-Boo Jack O’ Lantern:

Feed this hungry pumpkin!

Materials

• 1 large pumpkin
• 3 mini pumpkins
• Carving tools
• Used work glove
• Old shirt

• Leaves
• Wire hanger
• Rock
• Skewer
• Black permanent marker

Instructions

1. Carve a pumpkin with an extra-large mouth.
2. Stuff a work glove and one sleeve of an old shirt with leaves.
3. Bend a support for the arm and hand from a wire hanger. Fit one end into the glove and feed the opposite end through the sleeve.
4. Sit the pumpkin on the shirt. Brace the arm from behind with a rock and cover the rest of the shirt with leaves.
5. Push a skewer through three mini pumpkins. Draw a face on each with black permanent marker, then set the skewer in place.

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Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.

by Corey

Welcome to Day #12 of our

“31 days of {Green!} Giveaways“

Today’s question: Do you decorate the outside of your home for Halloween? If so, what’s your set up?

*Attention Facebook fans: Please answer as a comment on our blog, not our Facebook page in order to be entered to win!*

Today is day #12 of our month-long, trick-or-treating party for parents!

Just knock on our door (AKA blog) each day, answer the daily question (in lieu of shouting, “Trick or treat!” – although you are totally welcome to write that as well) and you’ll be entered to win some absolutely fabulous, ever-so-eco-friendly prizes.

Today’s prize package is worth $45!

Natural Luxe. Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids, $9 Ships to Continental USA and Canada!

Today I Ate A Rainbow kits.  Kit contains: An interactive chart that uses colorful magnets to track daily consumption of a rainbow of fruits & veggies, a color coded shopping list and a children’s book called The Rainbow Bunch. $25 Ships to Canada and USA.

Revolution Foods™ Organic Snack Packs: Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom. Value: $8-10. Ships to Continental USA only.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Add your e-mail address to the comment login, below. (We cannot notify you if we don’t have your e-mail address!)

2. Add a comment (one per e-mail address) with your answer to the question above.

3. Comment must post before 11:59pm PST – TONIGHT

Be sure to review our giveaway rules here. Please note shipping limitations.

Be sure to subscribe to our blog and follow us on Facebook & Twitter for daily reminders & updates for the 31 Days of {Green} Giveaways promotion.

Good luck & have FUN!

(& See you tomorrow )

Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.

by Corey

Send us your best “Spooky Face” and win!

We all know (and are hearing more each day) of the scary stories surrounding the precarious-state of our children’s health and the planet we all share.

Holidays are supposed to be about making memories and having F-U-N, but unfortunately, the issues that impact our families and planet during the other 364 days of the year bleed over into this holiday, too:

Heavy metals in masks and face paints, mood-altering artificial colors, childhood obesity, diabetes and food allergy epidemics, genetically modified “Frankenfoods,” hormone disrupting costumes, child-slavery in the coco industry, single-use decor traveling half way across the planet just to end up in a landfill (where there really is no “away” in “throw-away”). The list goes on and on.

Scary.

And while Green Halloween is all about inspiring families and communities via positive messages, we agree that these spooky truths are indeed important to be aware of.

But that doesn’t mean the F-U-N has to go down the drain.

NO way!

So to highlight the reasons why it’s good for people and planet to celebrate healthy and Earth-friendly traditions, but to make sure that fear doesn’t get the best of us (this time, we’re having F-U-N with F-E-A-R), we’re hosting a brand new “Scary Face” Contest.

Just e-mail us a photo image (no larger than 72 dpi) or link to a photo with your (or your child’s) best “scary face” and tell us what you/your family/your child thinks is scary about an UN-Healthy/Green Halloween.

We’ll pick our 5 favorites (funniest, spookiest, cutest, most creative and best overall) to WIN one of the great, green prize packs below:

Prize #1

• Revolution Foods™ Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom. Value – $8-10
• Good for You Girls: Complete Skin Care Starter Kit. Value – $19.99

Prize #2

• Today I Ate A Rainbow kits.  Kit contains: An interactive chart that uses colorful magnets to track daily consumption of a rainbow of fruits & veggies, a color coded shopping list and a children’s book called The Rainbow Bunch. Value -$25
• LiveGreene orange Vapur anti-bottles. Value – $9

Prize #3

• Natural Luxe Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids. Value – $9
• Eli’s Earth Bars; 6 bars. Value -$15.54

Prize #4

• Green Party Goods. Box of 144 straws of your choice and a package of Stripe Napkins. Value – $21
• 1 set of three Preserve Jr. Toothbrushes. Value -$10

Prize #5 (Top prize for Best Overall)

• Eat Cleaner; 1 Pack of 6 Eat Cleaner Wipes and a Bottle of Fruit and Veg Wash Concentrate with a reusable produce Bag. Value -$10
• $15 EcoMom gift certificates via email (Can be used at the EcoMom Green Halloween store or for anything on EcoMom)
• Revolution Foods™ Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom. Value – $8-10
• Today I Ate A Rainbow kits.  Kit contains: An interactive chart that uses colorful magnets to track daily consumption of a rainbow of fruits & veggies, a color coded shopping list and a children’s book called The Rainbow Bunch. Value – $25
• Natural Luxe; Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids. Value -$9
• Eli’s Earth Bars; 6 bars. Value – $15.54
• EcoPartyTime: Halloween 8 feet felt banner, $35.95 value, and a surprise costume make up kit for kids, $11.95-$19.95 value
• thredUP 1 box. Browse thousands of boxes of pre-loved kids Halloween costumes, clothes, toys or books listed by other moms across the country.  Giveaway includes a promo code that can be used for one box & shipping. Value – $15.95

For more ways to win gifts & goodies from our green partners, click here.

Giveaway rules:

• Beginning 12:01am PST on 10/11/11, send your best “scary face” and submit your opinion on what you believe is most scary about an un-healthy/green Halloween. Include your name, your child’s name (if applicable), your child’s age, city/state, e-mail address and phone number. Subject of the e-mail must be: SCARY FACE.
• Entries e-mailed to: info AT GreenHalloween.org (we are typing our e-mail like this to avoid spam, please use @ sign)
• 3 entries per person allowed.
• Photos must be received no later than11:59pm PST on November 5, 2011
• Photos must be sent by e-mail (attachment, embedded into the body of e-mail or as a link) to: info AT GreenHalloween.org.
• Photos sent as attachment or in body of e-mail must NOT be larger than72 dpi.
• Only legal guardians and parents over the age of 18, living in the continental US, may submit photos. Photos become the property of Green Halloween and may be used via our social media network – on Facebook, Twitter, our blog, etc. Entry into the contest is your “signature” that the requirements above have been met.
• We are not responsible for photos that do not arrive.
• Winner will be contacted via e-mail no later than November 30th, 2011 and will be announced on Facebook/GreenHalloween and on Twitter @GreenHalloween.
• Winner’s name, phone number and e-mail address will be provided to prize partners, who will mail product separately.
• Green Halloween and partners are not responsible for winning announcement that doesn’t make it through to the winner, lost or damaged prizes.
• Prize partners may send prizes of equivalent value and/or gift certificates for free product in lieu of actual gifts.
• Shipping of prizes to continental US only; gift certificates/codes do not include free shipping of items.
• If you have questions about products, please contact the product companies directly.
• Winners chose, based on categories above, by the Green Halloween team.

by Corey

#Win a HUGE Green Halloween prize pack!

Just follow us on Twitter, then send us this tweet:

“@GreenHalloween: Please pick me to #win a #GreenHalloweenPrizePack!”

And you’ll be entered to win great, green goodies worth over $200!

Prizes include:

Angell Bar – Sample pack: 2 bars each Crisp, Dark, Snow, 1 Organic cotton T-shirt and assorted stickers

Natural Luxe – Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids

Eli’s Earth Bars – 6 bars

Revolution Foods™ – Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom.

Terra Firma Cosmetics – Gift certificate for our Halloween Face Paint set

Select Preserve food storage products

thredUP – 1 box. Browse thousands of boxes of pre-loved kids Halloween costumes, clothes, toys or books listed by other moms across the country.  Giveaway includes a promo code that can be used for one box & shipping

Eco Party Time – Felt pumpkin Trick-or-Treat basket plus Kids Floral Perfume Trilogy

Good for You Girls – Complete Skin Care Starter Kit

LiveGreene.com – Orange Vapur anti-bottles

Limited edition, reusable 2011 Green Halloween ChicoBag®

Total prize value = $200+

WOW!

Giveaway rules:

• Enter by following @GreenHalloween on Twitter, then posting the phrase: “@GreenHalloween: Please pick me to #win a #GreenHalloweenPrizePack!” Phrase MUST be posted to Twitter (not Facebook, blog post, etc.). You must be a follower of @GreenHalloween to win.
• One post per twitter account. You will receive up to 10 extra entries for up to 10 re-tweets by your followers.
• Tweet must be posted by 11:59pm PST on 10/31/11
• We are not responsible for Tweets that do not post or do not post correctly
• You must be 18 to win and live in the continental US
• Winner will be contacted via Twitter no later than November 15th, 2011 and winner’s Twitter handle will be announced on Twitter and Facebook.
• Winner will have 7 days to reply to Green Halloween with their name/shipping address.
• Green Halloween and partners are not responsible for winning announcement that doesn’t make it through to the winner (via Twitter), lost or damaged prizes.
• Prize partners may send prizes of equivalent value and/or gift certificates for free product in lieu of actual gifts.
• If you have questions about products, please contact the product companies directly.

For more ways to win gifts & goodies from our green partners, click here.

by Corey

Welcome to Day #11 of our

“31 days of {Green!} Giveaways“

Today’s question: What’s the most unconventional goody you’ve ever handed out at Halloween?

*Attention Facebook fans: Please answer as a comment on our blog, not our Facebook page in order to be entered to win!*

Today is day #11 of our month-long, trick-or-treating party for parents!

Just knock on our door (AKA blog) each day, answer the daily question (in lieu of shouting, “Trick or treat!” – although you are totally welcome to write that as well) and you’ll be entered to win some absolutely fabulous, ever-so-eco-friendly prizes.

Today’s prize package is worth $64!

A surprise treat from Honest Tea valued at $64. Continental US only. Depending on location, gift may be offered as gift certificate/coupons.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Add your e-mail address to the comment login, below. (We cannot notify you if we don’t have your e-mail address!)

2. Add a comment (one per e-mail address) with your answer to the question above.

3. Comment must post before 11:59pm PST – TONIGHT

Be sure to review our giveaway rules here. Please note shipping limitations.

Be sure to subscribe to our blog and follow us on Facebook & Twitter for daily reminders & updates for the 31 Days of {Green} Giveaways promotion.

Good luck & have FUN!

(& See you tomorrow )

Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.