The Best Pumpkin Carving Tips You've Ever Seen... Plus Free Pumpkin Templates To Download
This is Part One of a 3-part Halloween series, inspired by our annual tradition of carving pumpkins.
In this Halloween series, you'll find:
Some of the best pumpkin carving tips you've ever seen
Lots of FREE templates that you can download
Unique pumpkin carving ideas to make yours stand out from others on the block
Carving techniques & how-to's to get the job done fast and easy
Ideas for adding light inside your pumpkin
How to prolong the life of your pumpkin
spooky recipes & sweet treats (including fun haunted house party ideas)
How to take Halloween pictures (tips for photographing lit pumpkins, as well as costumed trick-or-treaters)
Part 1: Pre-Halloween... Gathering Ideas Early
Unique Pumpkin Carving Ideas
Here are some of the most creative (yet simple!) pumpkin carvings we've seen lately. We even plan to try out a few of these ourselves this year... especially decorating pumpkin guourds & setting them on the house steps.
For some unusual carving ideas including a clever trick for carving a pumpkin on its side and displaying it sideways .. very cute!
A step-by-step tutorial for making your own patterns. Learn how to turn any picture, clipart, or coloring book page into a pumpkin carving masterpiece! (Warning: It's slightly technical, but interesting nonetheless.)
Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns To Download
We prefer to carve designs that are of traditional Halloween-related objects, but we kick them up a notch by making them more 3-D or more detailed with shading or something. If you're interested in how we do it, check out these pumpkin pictures of pumpkins we have carved in the past.
We used the following pumpkin carving templates from HMS Mfg. Company: Bats, Haunted House, Ghost, and Witch. Look for them in your favorite store! (You can see where we cut out all the "black" parts of the design, and we used a Sharpie marker to trace the design onto the pumpkins.)
Here's a Jeep template we created ourselves!
Here is the most inclusive FREE pumpkin carving template site out there! (You'll notice that some of the templates are "for members only", just skip over those to check out all of the great free ones first.)
For a simple, yet very personalized pumpkin face, use one of these pumpkin carving templates to create your own personal Jack-o-lantern template.
There are many more free templates out there to choose from (but you'll have to weed through a lot that aren't so free to find them!) You're best bet would be to search in Google for EXACTLY what you're looking for, such as "flag pumpkin template" or "scooby doo pumpkin" or "spongebob pumpkin"... you get the idea.
I couldn't find anything on how to make a mickey mouse head using 3 pumpkins. Can you help ?
well this is an amoazing website here are alot of facts thanks for the help from sophie
Found this site with a great listing of more than 30 different places with free Jack-o-Lantern Templates. Worth a look...
http://brentevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/30-plus-sites-for-free-halloween-jack-o.html
Brilliant site! Thank you. We're just beginning to catch up with you here in England - this has been the best site for all inclusive tips on how-to and where-to-find !!! Thanks again!
This is a great site. Very informative not only good links but also good pointers and tips...thanx
Nick -
I couldn't find a Mickey Mouse carving template...
But you may be able to use a piece of Mickey Mouse clipart like this as a carving pattern.
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I am sorry to bother you but I am looking for a Mickey Mouse pumpkin Pattern...Do you know where I can get one on such short notice?
This is the best yet seen to offer on pumpkin carvings
Love your site. The best I have found. Very helpful and interesting. thanks for sharing.