Tired of pumpkin pies and Jack-o-lanterns? Here are some positively perfect uses for those little orange gourds you might not have considered:

  1. Beer Distributor: Fill your hollowed-out pumpkin with ice to keep the bottles cold or fill it with a pumpkin ale and put a keg tap on it and voila!
  2. Bird Feeder: Using another hollowed-out pumpkin, cut some fun shapes all over it like you would a jack-o-lantern and fill it with seeds (including the pumpkin seeds you took out). It will look fun and festive while attracting more crows for that eerie Halloween feel you’re craving.
  3. Pumpkin Lip Scrubs: Love the taste of pumpkin? Mix these ingredients together and use it as a  lip scrub that you’ll be able to taste all day!
    • 2 tbsp. coconut oil
    • 1 tbsp. honey
    • 1 tbsp. brown sugar
    • 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
  4. Pickled pumpkins: Preserve your favorite fall fruit so it lasts all year.
  5. Halloween Costume: Cut a large hole (the size of your head) from the bottom of the pumpkin. Scrape out the pulp and seeds and cut eye holes (unless you are feeling confident) and you will have the perfect disguise!
  6. Medieval weapon: Sign up for a pumpkin catapulting contest (or set one up in-case-of intruders).
  7. Make it a Boat: Carve out and paint your own giant pumpkin to use as a canoe! The Windsor Pumpkin Regatta in Nova Scotia is a half-mile race held every October. Get some friends together and head to the Delaware or Schuylkill River!
  8. Pumpkin Traps: Place topless, hollowed-out pumpkins discreetly under leaf piles. Your local Mischief Night participants will step in them! The next day you can identify them because they will have a pumpkin stuck around their foot.
  9. At home gym: Make your own barbell! Choose your most stable walking stick and skewer a pumpkin of your choosing on each end. For extra help keeping off the pounds from all the Halloween candy, hook some twisted gourds around your ankles (also very stylish this season).
  10. Reproduction: Grow even more pumpkins from all your leftover seeds! There are about 10 seeds per rib in each pumpkin, which means even more pumpkins for next year!

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