Today is National Pumpkin Day, which falls on October 26th every year leading up to Halloween!

Some Pumpkin tidbits:

• Pumpkins can be grown on every continent except Antarctica
• The U.S. produces about 1.5 billion pounds of them each year.
• We usually celebrate National Pumpkin Day by carving a pumpkin in time for Halloween.

So what would Halloween be without pumpkin carving? If you have little ones, it gets tricky. Some tips from cloud mom dot com:

• Ask your kids what they want their pumpkins’ mood to be: happy, sad, spooky.
• Have them draw out face shapes on paper (make sure they’re not too small!).
• Have them tape the shapes onto the pumpkin and then YOU do the cutting and carving.
• It’s fun to talk to them about their pumpkin’s personality when you’re finished…and maybe even where they’re from and what they like to do.
• Don’t throw out the scraps! Toasting the pumpkin seeds is half the fun

Check out some more Pumpkin carving tips from National Geographic.

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