Halloween may put the frighteners on some young children and on their parents too, and while celebrating it has been gaining in popularity in Britain, its customs are a long way from the cuddly image they have in America.
However, one Halloween tradition you can enjoy with children of any age, that's more fun than scary, is making a jack o'lantern. Here's how to do it the American way.
Your best bet for finding the right kind of jack o'lantern pumpkin is the supermarket. But forget those silly stick-on patterns and special carving implements they try to sell them with. You'd have to be Michelangelo to cut those designs. Also forget whatever you may have learned as a child to do with swedes or turnips.
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