It's that time of the year again: carving pumpkins, watching horror movies, tricks or treating, and costumes. Here's your ultimate guide to carving pumpkins, ranging from beginner to expert levels.
Beginners
1. Pumpkin Pot
These cute pumpkins are great for a not-so-gory Halloween. You’ll need gold paint, plastic flowers, and spiders.
2. Pumpkin Cooler
This pumpkin-carving idea is easy and practical. Just scoop out all the pumpkin insides and cut the top open half-way through. Then, fill with ice and your favorite alcoholic beverages and enjoy!
3. Petite Pumpkins
Get these little pumpkins at your local grocery store or pumpkin patch. Since they are so small, they're very easy to cut and create. You can even use small squashes instead!
4. Cookie Cutter Pumpkins
Use a cookie cutter in any pattern for create these simple carvings. Just hammer into the cutter until it goes all the way through, and then you're done!
Intermediate
5. Starry Night
These starry night pumpkins are easy and so eerie! All you need is a tool set to make the holes and a sharpie to draw the trees. Hint: online printable patterns are the best for making perfect lines.
6. Creepy Eye Pumpkin
This idea is great for spooky Halloween lovers. The key is to carefully cut out the veins of the eye without breaking the pumpkin. Hint: if you do break a part of the pumpkin, use a toothpick to fix it!
Expert
7. Message Pumpkins
This one can be as spooky as you can be creative, whether you choose to use horror movie quotes or just some scary taglines.
8. Haunted House Pumpkins
This one, while more difficult, is a great idea. Using a sharper tool, cut off just the skin of the pumpkin to get the glowing effect. This technique is actually easier that carving out the whole pumpkin.
9. Pumpkin Carousel
This one is definitely complex, but if you can recreate this, you will definitely have the best pumpkin in the neighborhood.