Halloween pumpkins make great Halloween gift baskets. Whether the pumpkin is a real pumpkin that you carved yourself or a plastic pumpkin with a handle, what matters is that you gave someone a Halloween gift basket they’ll absolutely love!

Real pumpkins as gift containers

• Cut top off pumpkin, take out innards.

• Line pumpkin with foil and fill with candy treats, or line and insert a flower such as a mum plant. Leave mum in pot, just place inside pumpkin and tie on ribbon and bow.

• Grow your own pumpkins. While still small, carve the word "Boo!" into the pumpkin, being careful just to break the skin but not dig into the meat of the pumpkin. As the pumpkin grows, the letters will scar over and grow along with the pumpkin. Using the blunt tip of your fingernail, works well. You want the letters to be thick rather than fine, so a fingertip or spoon handle is perfect for writing a message.

• Spice up the pot of flowers with a cutout of a witch, using black construction paper, and the cutout of a full moon, using yellow construction paper. Tape the witch and full moon to individual wooden skewers and then insert them into the pot of flowers. It will appear as though the wicked witch is flying across the sky in the light of a full moon.

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