Aricin's Pumpkin

For Playschool Aricin took a fieldtrip to Riverbend Farms. He has a very small class for playschool, only 3 children total and he is the only boy! I had a Dr's appointment so I couldn't go but he had a great time taking a hayride and came back with this pumpkin. Which survived exactly 2 days of play with the boys. It's Friday and they did it in last night. They had cut off the stem and then last night Christian wanted to get "all" the stem off. He dug a hole right through where the stem would be! I told them it was dead then and since it is opened no more "playing" with it. Drama soon ensued. "Oh our poor pumpkin!" " Christian - "I'm SO sorry Aricin" with real tears I might add. For 2 hours it was pumpkin drama from the boys. Christian even made cards with writings on them and tacked them to the pumpkin. They cried, they cried and then they cried some more. It is still a bit too early to carve it (plus I don't have the carving kit yet) so to end the pumpkin madness I told Aricin we could open it up fish out all the seeds and roast them to eat! Problem solved and Aricin was delighted at the idea! So we spent this morning getting all the seeds out of the pumpkin to make this recipe which is cinnamon and salt pumpkin seeds. And they are indeed very yummy (and super easy!)! Aricin loves them and even had me add more cinnamon to his snack! Now if you don't do this already you know what to do with all those seeds from the Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns!