Save up old newspapers. Make paper mache (or however you spell it). Get some orange paint. Voila! Jack-o-Lanterns.
More fun for the kids!
Blow up a balloon and put the paper mache over the balloon. Helps keep the shape until the glue dries.
Tried that. Cousin Bobby ate all the paste, threw up and had to go to the hospital. Glued his guts together. He couldn’t go to the bathroom for a month. When he finally did, it was the headline in the local paper. I think they called out the national guard.