- Don't like the idea of carving a pumpkin? Paint one instead! Here's some great examples.
- Use your pumpkins for serving bowls! For the small to medium pumpkins - hallow them out, spray the interior with a good coating of spray oil and fill them with dips and spreads. Stuff a holiday themed napkin inside and fill with nuts and pretzels. Larger pumpkins can even be used as coolers - fill them with ice and insert your cold drinks!
- Don't throw away the seeds after you hollow out your pumpkin - dry them and roast them up to eat!
- Pumpkins come in a variety of colors too so pick up some of them to have fun with.
- Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.
- Pumpkins are used for feed for animals.
- Pumpkin flowers are edible.
- Pumpkins are members of the vine crops family called cucurbits.
- Pumpkins originated in Central America.
- The name pumpkin originated from "pepon" – the Greek word for "large melon."
- Pumpkins are 90 percent water.
- Pumpkins are fruit.
- Colonists sliced off pumpkin tops; removed seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. This was baked in hot ashes and is the origin of pumpkin pie.
HAPPY NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY!
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