Ready to create the ultimate jack-o'-lantern? Before you grab that knife, let's walk through the essential steps to pick, ...

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 has come and gone, but the pumpkin you bought to celebrate the holiday likely has not. There’s plenty that can be done to recycle Halloween pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns if the idea of ...

Every season, picking pumpkins is the thing to do. And while the pumpkin patches across the U.S. are a fall-must-do, what's next? Brainstorming jack-o'-lantern ideas, of course! If you're looking to ...

Eerie time lapse, our fun Halloween video of growing wild grasses and radishes in a Jack-o-lantern through 26 days of terror.

It’s not truly Halloween until you have a pumpkin sitting on your doorstep. Yet every year, you probably notice that after a day or two, your jack-o’-lantern’s face starts to sag—then collapses into ...

Instead of throwing last night’s Halloween jack-o’-lantern into the trash, some industrious people are turning old, burned-out carved pumpkins into compost. Composting not only helps your garden, it ...

Nearly anyone with a pumpkin, knife and tea candle can make their own jack-o'-lantern. But to make Jack O'Lantern World, the monthlong festival which kicks off at Lake Zurich's Paulus Park Friday, ...

It wasn’t for a lack of effort that the organizers of the 13th-annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival were unable to set the world record for spontaneously lit jack-o’-lanterns over the weekend.