Use an electric or battery-powered light in an artificial pumpkin; do not use a candle. To use a candle inside a fresh pumpkin, place the candle inside and carefully light it after all carving is ...

Alana Mattingly has a passion for carving, so much so that every Halloween, her front yard is filled with hundreds of intricately sliced faux pumpkins amassed over several decades. Mattingly, 78, used ...