Halloween Pumpkin-Carving Patterns and Pumpkin Templates

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

Print the Night Owl Template

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

Print the Witch Silhouette Template

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

Print the Fierce Feline Template

An amazing jack-o-lantern starts with a great pumpkin, template -- and the right carving tools. Learn our best insider tips and tricks for choosing and using tools that will make for a truly magical display.

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

Print the Mini Jack-o'-Lanterns Template

Light flickers from within these houses on the thrill.

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

Print Vine and Leaf Template 1 
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Looping wood grain onto your pumpkin is a cool, unexpected twist.

Print Faux Bois Template 1
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Create a scenario of fear with this menacing vulture.

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It's always just a few minutes till the witching hour on the face of this "Rouge Vif d'Etampes" pumpkin.

Print the Clock Template

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From the wrong side of the patch: Other gourds greet the world with toothy smiles and innocent triangle-shaped eyes, but this frightful pumpkin does its best to make passersby wish they had stayed home baking pies.

Print the Pumpkin Face Template

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

Print the Witch Template

The stippled skins of this "One Too Many" pumpkin 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. 

Print the Leaf Templates

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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Turn the table on traditional jack-o'-lanterns by painting them.

Print the Cat Template

These grinning faces stand out with the addition of paint.

Print the Painted Face Template

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.

Print the Choirboy Template
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Print Another Choirboy Template

More Tips for Pumpkin Faces

A gothic skull silhouette is all you need to set the horrifying mood.

Print the Skull Template

Who says pumpkins need faces? Try carving a word or a saying.

Print the Boo! Template

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

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A wicked witch silhouette instantly makes your pumpkin a frightful sight.

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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.

Print the Morbid Pumpkin Face Template
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Print Another Morbid Pumpkin Face Template

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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.

Print the Pumpkin Face Template

Add a decanter of wine next to an illuminating glass on your Halloween table.

Print the Wine Glass Template

Create a frightening scene with this locked gothic cage.

Print the Gothic Cage Template

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

Print the Spooky Owl Template

Frighten friends and family with an eerie silhouette of a bird on its branch.

Print the Bird Silhouette Template

An upside-down bat silhouette adds a spooky touch to your pumpkin -- and guarantees to scare friends and family.

Print the Bat Template

Achieve a spooky buzzard bird design with our template, an awl, and both wide and fine-tipped linoleum cutters.

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Not all pumpkins are happy -- this one had a long day.

Print the Sad Pumpkin Face Template

An evil pumpkin face on your doorstep is sure to scare away the neighbors.

Print the Evil Pumpkin Face Template

Add a grinning pumpkin to the bunch -- guests won't know if he's a trick or a treat!

Print the Grinning Pumpkin Face Template

Once illuminated, this angry pumpkin becomes a frightful gourd.

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Add a cheerful face to your pumpkin patch to lighten the mood with this adorable design.

Print the Funny Pumpkin Face Template

With a glowing wink, this charismatic pumpkin is one of a kind.

Print the Winking Pumpkin Template

Passersby will feel bad for this lonely pumpkin who misses the rest of his patch. 

Print the Lonely Pumpkin Template

Maybe he's scared of the other pumpkins or maybe it's the frightful decorations around him. Either way, this screaming pumpkin will glow with fear.

Print the Scared Pumpkin Face Template

Have this bone-chilling pumpkin greet guests at a haunted-house party.

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You may not be able to hear this screaming pumpkin's voice, but his face says it all.

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Introduce a playful pumpkin to the horror on your doorstep.

Print the Silly Pumpkin Face

With this crazy face etched into your pumpkin, blacken the rinds and paint the interior orange-gold. They'll thumb their carved noses at traditional jack-o'-lanterns.

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