Today is Pumpkin Day; Happy Pumpkin Day!
Pumpkin Day is celebrated every year on the 26th of October.
Pumpkins are perhaps the thing that we most associate with Halloween and Autumn today. Carving pumpkins is a fun Halloween activity and carved pumpkins add an extra layer of coolness to the coolest food on the planet!
Pumpkins may look like a vegetable, but this tasty food is actually a fruit.
It is a fruit that is used for Jack O'Lanterns are Halloween time, and, it is a fruit that is used for many tasty Autumn meals.
These Autumn meals include things like:
. Pumpkin soup
. Pumpkin stews
. Pumpkin cakes
. Pumpkin pies
. And, even pumpkin drinks
There are many pumpkin dishes that you can create for Halloween and Autumn!
A fun activity for Halloween this year could be to create your own pumpkin pies, with their own unique and creative pumpkin faces!
Other fun activities for Halloween is to create your own pumpkin cakes, carve your own pumpkins (you could carve your own pumpkins to make a pumpkin face, or even by creating animal faces on your pumpkins).
There are many ways to have fun and get creative with pumpkins this Halloween!
How To Help Animals With Pumpkins
Once Halloween is over with, or, even as part of Halloween, you can give any leftover pumpkins to wildlife.
Pumpkins are a tasty treat for wild animals.
Animals like squirrels, foxes, badgers, and deers will eat pumpkins. So, rather than throwing your pumpkins in the bin after Halloween, you can give them to animals.
Halloween can be a great time for animals as well as people.
Happy Pumpkin Day! 🎃
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