Spooky Pumpkin patch

"I will keep moving forward, forever forward, towards and endless dream, and a thousand pumpkin lights." President George Bush

This is my spookie buddy, Bif.

Yes, pumpkins, pumpkins there you sit
with triangular eyes softly lit.
Gathering up the children's glee
these costumes
parading past you and me.
A stumbling in the night chilled air,
stealing the candies,
the goodies there.

Yes, Jack-O-Lanterns,
Mother Nature meant you
for Halloween and children too.

By Linda A. Copp ©

Welcome my darlings to my wonderful Spooky Pumpkin Patch.
Please don't be afraid of the ghosts that go bump in the
night. They love to go bowling with the pumpkins.

These are my pumpkins,
Bobbette and Bob.

This is my ghost, Jester. He is looking for candy corn.

My little pixie watches over my pupkin patch along with her friend, Scorch.

A little something for the kiddies

Paper Bag Pumpkins

Materials:

Brown paper bags
newspaper or scraps of paper
Orange, black and brown paint or markers

Have children stuff the brown bag with newspaper or scraps of paper. Then twist the top around tight, it will be the stem of the pumpkin. Let children paint or color it orange, then brown for stump, and then black for a jack-o-latern.

I carved my pumpkin at Cyberhaunt.

Origins of Jack O'Lantern

An Irish tale tells us where the origins of the name Jack o'lantern came from. There once was a man named Jack who liked to play tricks on people. He lived a long, mischievous life.

One day he tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved the image of a Holy Cross in the trunk of the tree. This trapped the Devil up the tree.

Jack made a deal with the Devil that: he would let the Devil down the tree, if the Devil promised to never tempt him again.

After Jack died, he was not permitted into Heaven because of his evil ways. He was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the Devil. The devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the freezing blackness. This flame was put inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing.

As Jack walked his neverending journey as punishment for his trickery, he carried a burning coal inside a turnip to help him see along the roads everywhere he traveled. Soon he was known as "Jack of the lantern" or Jack O'Lantern.

In Ireland, turnips were used as their Jack's lanterns originally. However, immigrants to America, found pumpkins more plentiful than turnips. The Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.

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