Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays ... to use Marie Kondo’s term, spark joy. Buying pumpkins to carve with my brother, for example, sparks joy because in this case, a pumpkin’s worth extends ...

the scariest holiday, into an emotional education opportunity. The Halloween Pumpkins became the Emotional Pumpkins that parents and kids could carve together, while talking about emotions. While kids ...

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