Lollipop Candy Holder Pumpkin

Put your jack-o'-lantern to work handing out candy.

Submitted by
Grisel

Too busy shuffling your trick-or-treater around to hand out candy to the neighborhood ghouls? Leave a treat out on the stoop with this ultra-creative, lollipop carrier/jack-o'-lantern.

Pumpkin:
A big round pumpkin will work best. The wider the top, the better.
Craft paint and paintbrush:
To paint the pumpkin.
Sharp pen or pencil
Small drill and drill bit:
Optional, if the pen or pencil doesn't do the trick.
Newspaper:
To protect your furniture. Not that it hasn't been stained, gouged and beaten to a pulp already!
Lollipops:
Buy 'em in bulk at your local grocery store.

Bring your child to the local pumpkin patch (a.k.a., the supermarket) to pick out a pumpkin.
Take the pumpkin home and have your kid clean it off with a damp cloth.
Have him decorate the pumpkin with paint. Encourage him to use his imagination. Is it a scary jack-o'-lantern face? A skeleton (paint the pumpkin black and add white or glow-in-the-dark skeletal features)? A witch (green, with a big warty nose and an evil grin)? Or a pirate (with a black patch over one eye)?
When the pumpkin has dried, help him poke holes into the top of it—where the hair would be—using a sturdy pen. If you can't get the pen through the pumpkin skin, try using a small drill bit and drill pen-sized holes into the top. (See Jane drill!)
Fill the holes with suckers to give the jack-o'-lantern some hair. Now, that's one sweet looking 'do!
Set it on your stoop for the trick-or-treaters or use it as a centerpiece for a Halloween get-together.