No-Mess Pumpkins

Love Halloween but hate the mess of carving pumpkins?  I hear ya.  Carving jack-o-lanterns always starts out like a good idea, but after ten five two minutes the novelty wears off and I am the one left scooping icky sticky pumpkin guts. 

These guys aren't exactly jack-o-lanterns, but they were a million times more fun to do than carving pumpkins.  Between do-dads from the sewing cabinet and my husbands leftover hardware bits in the garage, the kids had plenty of inspiration. 

And these pumpkins will last a whole lot longer than two days, unlike their carved counterparts.

This idea is courtesy of Family Fun magazine