Friday, October 2, 2015

Jack-O


When the spooks have a midnight Jamboree
They break it up with fiendish glee
Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursed
It's the Headless Horseman, he's the worst

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So when you're riding home tonight
Make for the bridge with all your might
He'll be down in the hollow there
He needs your head, look out, beware

With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop
He's out looking for a head to swap
So don't try to figure out a plan
You can't reason with a headless man

Lyrics borrowed from The Headless Horseman song from Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow cartoon

This is one of my all time favorite Disney cartoons - so fun to watch at Halloween, and scary! Plus Bing Crosby narrates and sings - awesome nostalgia!


To wrap up the week, I'm sharing one of my kid's pumpkin crafts... turns out you can make a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern out of just about anything!


This lovely pumpkin is made from orange cloth wrapped around a full roll of toilet paper. The stem is brown construction paper folded and rolled up. Ta daa!




And check out this cool carved pumpkin trailer from BH&G...



But wait - stop by Marcy Hatch's Mainewords. They have an awesome pumpkin carving fair and she treats us to some great shots of them! Check these pumpkins out from a couple years ago.

People get more creative every year with their carvings. Minions are prevalent again this year. And I love carving - usually mascots from my boys' favorite teams... What jack-o's have you seen?

Happy October!

3 comments:

  1. Not seen any yet. I find pumpkins hard to cut into anyway. I am talking for cooking purposes not Hallowe'en.

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  2. I was so afraid of that cartoon as a kid.

    You can use a brown lunch bag to make a pumpkin also. Paint it orange, stuff if with crumpled paper, and then tie a string around the top to make a handle. They're really cute too!

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  3. Jo, i havent seen any excpt on facebook or in magazines yet but im ready to carve!!

    liz, i have one of those too, and an orange sock too!

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