We carved our pumpkins about a week before Halloween. Jaxon didn't like the goo on his hands, so I had to do it for him and then carve it. I ended up helping all of the girls finish carving their's, too because they were tired of it. We used the carving patterns and some of them were a little difficult. We had a fun time doing them together! Then we forgot to even light them up all week! We just sat them out on the front step and forgot about them!