Pumpkin Perfectionist Gifts

This Halloween, use props to create a unique jack-o-lanern. Fitness buffs might like a jumping jack. Or you could carve a lumberjack. In colder climates, Jack Frost might be a nice choice. And for something functional, build a jack!

'Mom! Evan keeps calling the pumpkin pulp, 'brains.''

Pumpkin patch

"It's how he would have wanted to go."

Halloween may be a little different this year.

Woodpecker carving pumpkins

"I'm spooked - they don't want candy, they want ice water!"

Before getting a basketball scholarship, Jack worked at a pancake house.

"I'm actually pretty ready for bed."

'Halloween is just around the corner, kids. Have you decided what are you going to wear?'

"Harry?... Is that you?"

'And that's how to make pancakes.'

A chef teaches a classroom of other chefs how to properly flip something using a spatula.

How was the Halloween party? Who was there? It was fun, except the Zombie didn't talk to anybody. The Grim Reaper was a real killjoy, and the jack-o-lantern made a fool of himself -- by the end of the evening he was smashed. Did the Black Cat or the Ghost attend? I crossed paths with a black cat but I don't know if the Ghost came to the party. All night it felt like he was right there but I never actually saw him!

'It doesn't say what she had for dessert on Thanksgiving. It just says she made a coach out of her pumpkin.'

Midnight Basketball

Old Joe the gardener was begining to regret the fact he'd bought last year's pumpkin seeds on Halloween!

'In celebration of Thanksgiving, this week's pie charts are all pumpkin flavored!'

Scratchy carves out another masterpiece.

'And you thought you grew big pumpkins.'

"Our seasonal special is spiced pumpkin apple butternut squash ale. Would you like that in a frosted mug or over ice cream?"

"My Mom says that's what happens if you eat too much Halloween candy."

"Are you outta your gourd?!!"

'If they rise they're scones. If not they're pancakes.'

Pumpkin Time!

"Make it look like an accident"

Giant Headless Horseman

Because of bad weather and lots of people moving slowly on the path, it took forever to get here! Everybody was picking up a pumpkin on Wednesday. There was a huge crowd and long lines at the pumpkin patch. My brother and I can't be seated together today. We'd argue and disagree about who should run the village council. After this huge meal nobody's gonna want to stick around and clean up this mess! If they're still having this celebration centuries from now, I'm sure they'll have worked i

"We need to talk."

The Headless Horseman claims his luggage.

At Halloween a little kid leaves the house wearing his father's construction clothes, tool belt and hard hat. In the window is a pumpkin with a hard hat on.

"Yes, it is strange...usually he reads the 'Daily Gossip'."

"We can't all be Great Pumpkins. Be satisfied that you're a good pumpkin."

"Your candle has gone out."

"Don't you love this time of year when the squirrels taste like pumpkin spice?"