Yes carving was fun. But due to the splendid Hawaiian weather, unfortunately our jack-o-lanterns went from being fun and spooky to looking like a pile of pumpkin throw-up on my porch.
After cleaning along with smelling the melted pumpkins, I decided to come up with a suitable alternative besides buying a crappy plastic pumpkin or putting in the effort to carve another just to watch it melt is less than a weeks time. Instead, I painted one! Painting the pumpkin was turned out to be an awesome alternative. It was fun, creative, and less messy for the most part (unless you're a dingus like me and spill tempura paint on the carpet).
I did my pumpkin with zig-zags and polka dots. What I would recommend to others (which I didn't do myself) would have been to paint the pumpkin one color first like black or white and then gone over it with other colors. If Foodland hadn't run out of pumpkins, I definitely would've painted another pumpkin and done that the second time around. But I'm still happy with how mine turned out. It's funky, chic, and not only does it look super good both inside and outside our house, it'll last longer and it's not so overly Halloween but still festive enough that I can keep around for Thanksgiving. And if you want that pumpkin smell that fills the air when you carve open a pumpkin, just cut a slit in it.
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