Roundup of FREE Pumpkin Carving Patterns & More

Halloween is almost here and that means pumpkin carving time! We love to carve our own pumpkin and usually do a couple of them so I’ve gathered up a few resources for you where you can download and print Pumpkin Carving patterns for free.

To start with- there is Pumpkin Masters where you can get 12 Free patterns as well as download a Free pumpkin carving iPad app HERE. And if you think you’ve got a winning Pumpkin this year- be sure and enter their Pumpkin Carving Contest on Facebook HERE. Deadline for entries is November 3rd.

Here’s some more free carving patterns, ideas & more…

Hersheys – great collection of easy, intermediate & advanced stencils. Martha Stewart – different templates from Martha. Disney Character Patterns – Mickey, Phineas & Ferb, Kermit the Frog, Tinker Bell and other fun characters. Better Homes & Gardens – patterns & no-carve patterns. Star Wars – Stencils of Yoda, Darth Vader and more. eHow – easy patterns and stencils including monogram templates. Chuck E. Cheese – pumpkin carving pattern, build a pumpkin with fun features you can cut & paste

Reader’s Digest – Eerie faces to clever emoticons. Disney Family Fun– Family friendly patterns. HGTV (Beginner) – beginner templates. HGTV (Advanced) – advanced carving templates. Nick Jr. – Fun stencils of your favorite Nick Jr. characters.

If you prefer to skip the carving, there are lots of ways to just decorate a pumpkin too. Decorating a pumpkin is also a nice safe way for little ones who want to participate.

My son Austin & I decorated the mummy pumpkin shown to the right last night and it was quick and easy to do. We took long strips of toilet paper folded over a few times and wrapped it around a pumpkin and secured with first-aid tape. (You could also use rolled gauze if you had some on hand.)

I added a couple large moveable eyes I had purchased at a crafts store a while back, but you could always draw eyes on paper and cut them out and glue them to your pumpkin. We think he came out super-cute!

You can also find some more pumpkin decorating ideas HERE from Betty Crocker. And, you can head over HERE for some cute pumpkin costume ideas 🙂 –Thanks This Old House! And you can also go HERE for some fun ideas on painting & decorating a pumpkin and more (-Thanks LilSugar!).