Punkin' Party Ideas

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:
· 3 cups sugar
· 1 cup vegetable oil
· 3 large eggs
· 1 16-ounce can solid pack pumpkin
· 3 cups all-purpose flour
· 1 teaspoon ground cloves
· 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
· 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
· 1 teaspoon baking soda
· ½ teaspoon salt
· ½ teaspoon baking powder
· 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)

Prepare:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans. Beat sugar and oil in large bowl to blend. Mix in eggs and pumpkin. Sift flour, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, salt and baking powder into another large bowl. Stir into pumpkin mixture in 2 additions. Mix in walnuts, if desired.
2. Divide batter equally between prepared pans. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Transfer to racks and cool 10 minutes. Using sharp knife, cut around edge of loaves. Turn loaves out onto racks and cool completely.

Pumpkin relay race

• Divide guests into two teams. Give each team a wheelbarrow.
• Place two hula hoops on the ground (these are the pumpkins patches). Pile enough pumpkins to fill each hula hoop in a spot several feet away from the hula hoops.
• Have the members of each team line up behind a hula hoop. On the start signal, the first players in line must push their wheelbarrows to the pumpkins, place one on the inside, and then wheel it back and place it inside the hula hoop.
• If a pumpkin spills out of the wheelbarrow along the way, the player pushing the it must go back and start again.
  The first team to fill their pumpkin patch wins.
  

Pumpkin Bowling

Paint some empty, plastic soda or juice bottles with orange paint. Line them up like bowling pins and roll a small pumpkin like a bowling ball to knock them down.