Celebrate
Day of the Dead face painting. . .
1. Use a face-painting sponge to cover your face with white face paint. Apply the paint evenly to create a foundation and let it dry. 2. Dip the sponge in the black face paint and apply black paint around your eyes to create eye sockets. Make them square with rounded edges rather than circular. 3. Apply a small amount of black paint to a face-painting brush. Paint a triangle with soft edges on your nose to create the skull's nose hole. 4. Use a skinny brush to draw a design like petals around the eye sockets. Also draw a line from each corner of your mouth across your cheeks, and vertical lines across your mouth.
Roasted
pumpkin seeds. . .
5. Use colored face paint of your choice to fill in the petals around your eyes and if you choose, add any other embellishments such as flowers or spider webbing.
Step 1 Scrape seeds from inside pumpkin, wash and dry well. Step 2 Toss seeds in a bowl with olive oil and salt. Step 3 Spread the seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake at 150C for about 45 minutes or until golden brown; stir occasionally.
How to Carve a Jack 'o Lantern 1. Make a ‘lid’.
3. Sketch out your design on paper. Cut out a circle ‘lid’ on an angle so that it won't If you draw your jack-o'-lantern face to size you drop inside the pumpkin when you put it back on can use it as a pattern: Just tape it to the front of top, like it would with a straight up-and-down cut. your pumpkin and use a fork or pencil to poke holes along the lines you want to carve. 2. Scoop out all the pulp (and then some).
With an ice cream scoop or tablespoon thin the inner wall of the "face" area so it will be easier to pierce the shell.
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4. Start by making simple rough cuts. If you get the big pieces of pumpkin out of the way first, you can go back and clean up the edges of your design later by ‘shaving’ along the holes you’ve cut.