This year, adorn your gourds with menacing animal masks or mix-and-match features such as googly eyes and chattering teeth. Or let the orange orbs serve as backdrops for scenes starring bats, witches, and ghosts. We provide the clip-art illustrations needed to make the decorations. All you have to do is download the designs shown here and print (you'll also find instructions for safely illuminating pumpkins with string lights). Then cut out the artwork, and pin, tape, or tie it to the gourds. You can also laminate it and use it year after year. A little carving is necessary: You'll hollow out the pumpkins and create spaces for light to shine through, whether an owl's eyes or a vulture's perch. When lighted, the creatures spring to life, ready to give passersby a start and turn treat seekers, no matter what their costumes, into scaredy-cats.

Costume Drama
Witching Hour
Crow's Foe
Spectral Scene
Stirring Centerpiece
Bird of Prey
Window Cutouts How-To
Cat and Owl Masks
Facial Features