Customer Reviews

Play With Your Pumpkins

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Once you've seen the cover of this book, you've seen it all. All of the pumpkins throughout this book are simply variations of the same theme. If you're after recipes, you'll probably like the book okay, but if you're after carving inspiration, look elsewhere.

The book shows a very creative ideas for carving pumpkins for Halloween. However, the book lacks any directions for carving, how to get the seeds out when neccesary, and what materials to use for the eyes. For example, if you use candy for eyes, it melts. If you experiment long enough though, you can creat some wonderful faces.

Who would have thought that you could get so many different faces from a pumpkin. The faces are true art and are quite easily done yourself if you wish to create your own.

I bought this book last year, created my own pumpkins that look just like these quite quickly. This year, everyone's calling us asking how we created those pumpkins and where they can get the book.

If you can hold a pumpkin and can handle a pocket knife the variations on the theme presented in the craft portion of this book will delight your children (up to 40+ years) and definitely your grandchildren. Giving titles of recipes in their orignal language but instructions in English is a delightful deviation from the conventional cookbook approach.

It's very gratifying to find the books that children as well as adults enjoy. We had a great time with the carving and it is true you never think to use the stem as a nose but also we use the other end and cut out the blossom end and insert a carrot to make a witch. Great book and full of ideas

This book is full of clever ideas for carving pumpkins using the stem as the nose. Even if you don't want to carve a pumpkin, the pictures are great for comic relief. The book also includes recipes, but I bought it for the pictures.