This or That: Carve a pumpkin or paint one?
Carve a pumpkin or paint one?
Autumn is here, and along with it the Halloween season and the question of whether you should decorate your doorstep and home with a carved pumpkin or a painted one. Whether you're dealing with pumpkin innards on newspaper or environmentally-friendly paint on clothes, both options certainly can be messy and the only real eco-friendly difference between the two is what you end up doing with the inside of the pumpkin. Eat it or toss it aside? If you can carve your pumpkin and be good about eating the inside (mmm, pumpkin pie and roasted pumpkin seeds!) that's great, but it's probably more likely to happen if you just paint the face on -- half the fun of carving comes from slopping the slime all over the place! I'm not sure many parents are too keen on scraping that up for making dessert!
Autumn is here, and along with it the Halloween season and the question of whether you should decorate your doorstep and home with a carved pumpkin or a painted one. Whether you're dealing with pumpkin innards on newspaper or environmentally-friendly paint on clothes, both options certainly can be messy and the only real eco-friendly difference between the two is what you end up doing with the inside of the pumpkin. Eat it or toss it aside? If you can carve your pumpkin and be good about eating the inside (mmm, pumpkin pie and roasted pumpkin seeds!) that's great, but it's probably more likely to happen if you just paint the face on -- half the fun of carving comes from slopping the slime all over the place! I'm not sure many parents are too keen on scraping that up for making dessert!
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10-11-2008 @ 12:32AM
Danielle said...
Another option is to have all the yucky fun with the innards and then use it for compost. :)
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10-12-2008 @ 8:45AM
Nims said...
My dad had a garden and we were never allowed to just throw the poor pumpkin away. Off into the compost heap it went! It was neat in a science project kind of way to watch it decompose as the elements continued to work on it. I remember turning in a paper for it once. :-)
10-11-2008 @ 10:06AM
NorsKenR said...
Eco-consciousness is great, but let's face facts. The water down the drain in a NYC Starbucks store was never going to reach a drought-stricken Zambian anyway. In fact, by returning the water from the city pipes to the world water cycle, to evaporate, form clouds and then rain, you could just as well argue that it became MORE available to Zambians.
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