Where To Find Pink Pumpkins Right Now

Whoever said pink and orange never look good together hasn’t seen what devotees have done to the humble Halloween pumpkin.

TRENDING NOW | While we’re not about to completely write off the orange jack-o‘-lantern as the most recognizable symbol for Halloween, we have noticed that pink pumpkins in a variety of permutations are popping up everywhere.

Paint It Pink

Part of the reason for the popularity of pink has to do with the fact that October is breast cancer awareness month, and more and more individuals and groups around North America are drawing attention to this cause by hosting pink pumpkin painting parties.

Painting a pumpkin, particularly in a solid colour, is less challenging than carving it, and if you seal your squash properly, it will last much longer than an incised pumpkin ever will. (CLICK HERE to read about pink pumpkin painting parties.)

Pink For Real

If painting a pumpkin pink isn’t enough to permanently knock the orange Jack off it’s pedestal, a genuinely pink pumpkin may be enough to do it. New in select supermarkets this fall in the U.S. (and catching on like wildfire) is a squash hybrid called porcelain doll (pictured directly above and at the top of the story) that comes in various shades of light pink.

Working with the fledgling Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation, U.S. pumpkin growers donate a percentage of every pink pumpkin they sell to organizations involved in breast cancer research. (CLICK HERE for a list of pink pumpkin retailers.)

Mighty Pink Sparklers

Can we thank Martha for glitter pumpkins? Maybe she didn’t invent them, but she has helped to make them popular. (CLICK HERE for her excellent tutorial.)

Pink Dust Up

We’d never worked with petal dust (a.k.a. powdered food colouring; we found ours at gourmetwarehouse.ca) before we decided to make our own versions of these sweet, baby-pink pumpkins we discovered on suchprettythings.typepad.com. (CLICK HERE to learn how designer/blogger Jessica Enig made them.) —eds