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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