These days Halloween is all about sexy costumes, hedonistic parties and witnessing some yob puking the the neighbour’s empty candy bowl left on the front porch. Now that’s scary.

While you and your friends may not have the time or drive to reengage with the Halloween activities you loved during childhood, thanks to a little clever flash work online, you can cheat your way to holiday festivities and manage all of your pumpkin-carving exploits from your computer – we promise, no pumpkin guts involved.

Theoworlds Halloween online pumpkin carver allows you to carve your virtual pumpkin into an ecard, providing you with the code to send off to your friends however it’s equally fun just to play with the site with no real intention of sending a card on. Besides, just like Halloweens of the past, it’s only your mother who will be impressed with your early attempts at squash stylings.

The site is basic, and unless you’re familiar with digital design, it’s probably just as difficult to create that brilliant pumpkin you have envisioned as it would be if you were actually cutting it. Unlike real pumpkins, however, the Theoworlds site comes with an undo button.

Get in the spirit of Halloween with an activity that will give your inner child a treat. And when you light that virtual candle and turn off the lights… you can almost hear the wails of digital pumpkins past floating through the ether(net).