Dinner in a Pumpkin

Ingredients:

1 medium sugar pumpkin

1 lb ground beef sauteed with

onion, celery, mushrooms and green pepper (1 cup of each)

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 T brown sugar

1 can sliced water chestnuts (drained)

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 1/2 cup hot cooked rice

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Wash the outer surface of the pumpkin. Cut a circle of the top just like you would if you were carving a jack-o-lantern. Clean out the seeds and stringy pulp. Clean out the pumpkin and rinse. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine the rest of ingredients; spoon mixture in pumpkin. Replace top. Place pumpkin on baking sheet. Bake 1-2 hour in preheated oven until pumpkin is tender. Serve cooked pumpkin along with filling.

Printable Recipe

Tutorial: How to Make Bug Wings

Shape the hangers/wire

Pull nylon over the top of hanger/wire

Wrap remaining nylon around base of wings

Put the base of both wings together (overlap them a bit for support) and stretch nylon around them then use needle and thread to sew nylon tight and hold wings together

Sew elastic to nylon

Wrap piece of fabric/felt around the base of the wings then either glue or sew. (This mostly just makes it look pretty but helps to keep wings in position too)

Have fun playing with your new bug wings!

Tutorial: How to Make Spiders

Take 3 (cut in half) black pipe cleaners and fold the ends. These are the legs.

Take one pipe cleaner and wrap it around the other two...this holds everything together.

It should look like this

Glue on the Pom pom and then two eyes

Here it is:

It's also a lot of fun to make a web out of string and put your spider in it.

Tutorial: Lollipop Ghosts

Unfold the napkin and put it over the lollipop, secure the napkin by tying a string around it...I used yarn

Draw eyes and a mouth using a marker

Enjoy your lollipop ghost!