Create one or more of these spooky, festive, and just plain fun pumpkins for Halloween using one of our templates.

A shiny-eyed bird is a wise addition to your Halloween decor.

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This sideboard tableau intersperses luminous pumpkins with a decanter of wine, a stand with fruit, and other objects evocative of Edgar Allan Poe and his tales of horror. To render the glowing silhouettes, we used two techniques: The bright candelabrum and goblet are cut through the pumpkins' walls, while the textured quill and skull are pared gently from the outer shells. Pumpkins of different hues, including white Lumina, a green-gray Jarrahdale, and burnt-orange cheese pumpkins, add tonal variety.

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In case its startling greeting didn't scare you, this pumpkin also projects a leering visage onto the wall behind it.

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Bumpy, lumpy, and greenish gray, these Hubbard squashes have the perfect complexions for making warty witch jack-o'-lanterns.

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Make a ferocious cat that claws at balls of twine filled with candy.

Print the Fierce Feline Template

Carve a screwy face into a pumpkin, and make him wink using socket kits and small appliance bulbs.

Print the Jack the Winker Template

Add a centerpiece of a pack o' lanterns to your table. These toothy little guys will enliven the whole room.

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In this project, a smaller pumpkin is nested inside a larger one to create the look of a vulture trapped in a cage.

Mischievous spirits, lacking bodies of their own, have been known to set up house inside scooped-out pumpkins and gourds. You can offer help by arranging these Halloween standbys into animal shapes -- all the better for playful souls to occupy.

Not one but five apple gourds, which have an unpleasantly mottled hue, lie in wait on this sill. Their shifty glances and tormented frowns were carved to look similar -- yet not quite the same. A bed of dead branches ensures this vengeful band will get no sleep.

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This ravenous pumpkin is cursed: He must offer up sweets to children all evening, yet he is not allowed to eat them (neither the sweets nor the children). A treat-filled bowl was placed in his cavernous mouth, and miniature flashlights were tucked on either side, against his jowls.

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What would Halloween be without a macabre evocation of the denizens of the night? These multilegged creatures rise up from the damp earth and moss to skitter across cold stones.

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Light flickers from within these houses.

Transform your pumpkins into glowing light fixtures.

Print the Starburst Template

Create a sophisticated pumpkin centerpiece with sinuous stems and fanned leaves.

For an intricate and unique jack-o'-lantern, try carving a Celtic knot -- a complete loop with no end or beginning -- into a pumpkin.

Fill a pumpkin with dry ice for a smoldering display, or use it to serve punch.

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Looping wood grain onto your pumpkin is a cool, unexpected twist.

Turn a Funkin into a spinning witch carousel you can use for Halloween year after year.

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A rickety picket fence unites a row of pumpkins in a depiction of a farmer's field.

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These puckish pumpkins, with paint-blackened rinds and orange-gold interiors, thumb their carved noses at traditional jack-o'-lanterns.

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The stippled skins of these "One Too Many" pumpkins are adorned with marbleized Florentine-paper leaves and millinery-wire tendrils. Mini "White Ball" gourds nestle at their feet, while "Baby Boo" pumpkins find a spot at the table as place markers.

Because none of the pumpkins in this subtly colored centerpiece are carved, they can last well into the fall, perhaps even until Thanksgiving.

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An ink-coated silhouette is a sophisticated variation on pumpkin carving.

Print the Spooky Silhouette Templates

Turn a lopsided pumpkin into a basket for a spooky bouquet.

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The base of a Cinderella pumpkin makes a perfect face for a jack-o'-clock.

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Legend has it that the luckless souls who hear the Three Squashes' song of woe shall vanish into the nearest vegetable patch, never to be seen or heard from again. Since narrow squashes are easier to hollow out if you work from both ends, these guys had the tops of their heads cut off.

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A bell-shaped squash serves as a vertical canvas for a moth-to-flame carving.

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Carve a full-moon silhouette behind a wicked witch with our carve-by-colors technique.

Print the Witch Silhouette Template