Are you looking for carved pumpkin ideas for the upcoming Halloween?
With Halloween around the corner, you should be preparing some nice Halloween-inspired décor to set up your home in the Halloween spirit, there are many things you can do to create the perfect Halloween décor.
Being crafty at Halloween means going out your way to get some nice decorations for your home, and what better way to do that than with pumpkin carving, and the best part is there are so many carved pumpkin ideas you can recreate.
From spooky carved pumpkin designs to simple designs, easy designs you can carve yourself, or those you can do with your friends and family.
So if you want to make your pumpkin décor look the best, you’ve come to the right place.
22 Carved Pumpkin Ideas
1. Cat Pumpkin Carving
I kickstart the list with this beautiful cat pumpkin carving, which is easy to create, and the end product looks great.
Cut out triangle shapes for eyes, cut out the nose and the mouth, then glue on the pieces from the eyes on top of the pumpkin for ears.
2. Full Skeleton Carved Pumpkin
Now this is creative, a Halloween pumpkin carving project you can do with your kids,.
First, you carve the skeleton head out of one pumpkin, then carve the body out of another, carve the legs out of the last one, then stack them on each other with lights inside each pumpkin.
3. Caged Pumpkin Carving
This looks amazing, carving a big pumpkin to look like a cage and hands holding the bars of the cage.
Then carving a smaller pumpkin to look like it is crying or screaming, and then placing the smaller pumpkin inside the bigger one.
4. Cozy Pumpkin Home Carving
For a cute and cozy carved pumpkin design, get two pumpkins, a large one, and a smaller one.
Cut out a window, and a big door from the bigger one, carve a happy face into the smaller one and place it in the bigger one, cut the door cutout into smaller pieces, and use it as form steps.
5. Teddy Bear Carved Pumpkin
Now this takes pumpkin carving to a whole other level, using different sizes of pumpkins to form the bearded head, ears, nose, and mouth, a larger one for the body.
And smaller ones for the hands and legs, glue on the hands and legs, and use black paint to paint on eyes, nose claws on hand and feet.
6. Adorable Carved Pumpkin
One of the easiest carved pumpkin designs on the list, really easy to do and you get it done in under minutes.
Cut out two small holes for eyes and a smiling mouth bigger than the eyes to create an adorable face, and that’s pretty much it.
7. Venom Carved Pumpkin
Creativity at its peak is what I call this carved pumpkin design, cut out one eye, and two different styles of mouth side by side, paint one half with black paint, and white eyes to form a venom face like when he’s transforming.
An absolute masterpiece.
8. Pennywise Carved Pumpkin Art
This carved pumpkin idea doesn’t have carving mostly just art, but is creative still.
First paint the pumpkin white, then draw the face of Pennywise, the eyes nose, and mouth with red and white paint.
Cut open the top of the pumpkin and put in red wool to form the hair.
9. Puking Carved Pumpkin
Create a unique carved pumpkin design, everyone is surely going to love this.
Cut out a face that is vomiting, closed eyes, two small holes for nostrils, and a wide open mouth.
Then place pumpkin rubble from inside to outside of the mouth.
10. Cute Owl Pumpkin
Going for a cute carved pumpkin design, well here is a nice one.
Cut out big owl eyes, and owl beak, use pumpkin seeds to make feathers around the eyes, and make little feet for the carved pumpkin owl.
11. Gru Carved Pumpkin
We’ve all seen Despicable Me right, create your carved pumpkin décor from Gru the main character of the animation.
Use the handle of the pumpkin as the nose, scrape the pumpkin to form eyes paint the iris with black paint, and cut out a small mouth.
12. Frankenstein Carved Pumpkin
Get even more creative with your Halloween décor by going for a carved pumpkin décor different from anything you’ve done before.
Paint the pumpkin top black, and paint the remaining part green, cut out the eyes nose, and mouth, and add metal screws to the side of the pumpkin to form metals at the side of Frankenstein’s head or neck.
13. Eyeball Pumpkin Carving
What you’ll need to pull this carved pumpkin décor off is a pumpkin, a stuffed blue eyeball, and red paint.
Cut a spooky eyelid in the pumpkin, put the stuffed eyeball in the pumpkin, and decorate it with red paint.
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14. Clever Carved Pumpkin
Yup, this is a very clever carved pumpkin design indeed, cut out eyelids, eyeballs, and glue-on buttons for the iris.
Glue black tape to form the eyebrows, then cut out an open mouth, then glue on a zipper to zip open and shut the mouth.
A truly clever carved pumpkin design.
15. Easy Hamburger Pumpkin Carving
Get ready to win the pumpkin carving contest among your friends with this hamburger pumpkin carving.
Cut your pumpkin into the shape of the bun of a hamburger, both the top and bottom, add pumpkin seeds on the top pumpkin bun, the cheese is made out of felt, and the lettuce is made out of playdough.
16. Hot Tub Skeleton Pumpkin
A very simple carved pumpkin idea, where all you need is a white pumpkin, a plastic skeleton toy, a small hand towel, and water.
Cut the top of the pumpkin, fill it with water, put the skeleton inside the water, and place the napkin beside it, easy peasy.
17. Ghost Face Carved Pumpkin
One very common Halloween costume is the ghost face costume from the Scream movies, incorporate the ghost face into your carved pumpkin décor.
Carve the ghost face into a pumpkin, it is easy to do and makes for a nice Halloween decoration.
18. Pirate Ship Carved Pumpkin
Time to give a unique carved pumpkin design a try with this pirate ship pumpkin carving.
Cut open the pumpkin, use the cutout part to make ship sails, use sticks to hold them in place, cut small holes in the ship to make windows, and add light inside the pumpkin to brighten up the décor inside.
19. Sauron Eye Carved Pumpkin
Remember the main antagonist from the lord of the Rings movie, this is a carving of his eyes.
This carved pumpkin might look weird during the day, but it comes to life at night, when everywhere is dark and the light inside the pumpkin shines and reveals the beautiful design of the eye.
20. Among Us Pumpkin Carving
Time to locate who the imposter is among us, here is another simple yet unique carved pumpkin design.
After cutting out the among us design in the pumpkin, put lights inside the pumpkin to help show off the design properly.
21. Jack O’ Lantern Carved Pumpkin
Time to go back to the classic and carve out the regular jack-o-lantern pumpkin.
This is pretty much the most common Halloween carved pumpkin design there is.
Add lights inside the pumpkin so it would still be visible even at night.
22. Bats Pumpkin Carving
If you’re a Batman fan, then you can use that as an inspiration for your carved pumpkin design.
Carve different sizes of bats out of a pumpkin, then incorporate lights inside the pumpkin for a better look at the design at night.
Conclusion
Getting the chance to create your decorations for Halloween can be amazing, especially when you already have ideas that you want to utilize on the ground.
Like carving pumpkins for instance, sure the end product of the carved pumpkin to look great is the main goal, but the process of carrying out the carving is the fun part, especially when you’re carving a character you like.
So there you have it, 22 different ideas of carved pumpkins that you can utilize to bring about the perfect décor for the interior and exterior of your home this coming Halloween, a lot of these carved pumpkins would look great on your front porch.
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