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Boo's Halloween Lair Pumpkin

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Boo's Halloween Lair Pumpkin

I claim this Reese's Peanut Butter Cup as MINE!

Name of Pumpkin

Boo, the Snake's, Halloween Lair

Materials Needed

 

1 snake

1 pumpkin

1 sharp steak knife

1 thin-edged soup spoon

1 felt tip marking pen

Instructions

 

First cut top of pumpkin to be removed. Then draw face on pumpkin, carve out the face design, remove all pieces carefully. Using soup spoon scrape out pumpkin seeds and inner slimy glop until just rind appears. Wash off any residual pen marks on outside of pumpkin. Place one small snake inside pumpkin. Take photos as snake crawls in and out of the various orifices.

Tips and Tricks

  • Have one person take the photographs while you manage the snake and keep him or her from escaping. Try not to take any candy claimed by the snake.

Sherri Osborn, Family Crafts Guide, says:

What a fun pumpkin!

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