Before you get started with pumkin carving, if you want to perserve the pumpkin a little longer, you can soak the pumpkins in a bath of 3 parts water and 1 part bleach, and spray this mixture and vaseline or petroleum jelly on the inside and where you’ve carved!
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- Flower Carving
You can draw your own flower on a pumpkin to carve out or print out any flower stencil like this simple one and trace it onto the pumpkin!
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- Disney Carvings
Check out this site for a few stencils of princesses, villians, and other disney characters!
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- You can’t go wrong with cats:
Use this easy stencil or draw a face to carve out and attach whistkers and ears!
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- Sugar Skull
Make your own unique sugar skull design or use this stencil!
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- Star Wars Logo and Rebellion symbol
Team up with your bf and get a little geeky with it, which is what I did! We just google searched silhouettes of the images we wanted to carve, printed, and traced them onto our pumpkins, which you can do with any other image you can think of.
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If you don’t want to carve a pumpkin, you can also paint it!Â
Here are a few ideas:
- Simple and cute: a solid color pumpkin with a glittery stem!
- Cool chevron, polkadots, and stripes!
- Tribal and chic patterns.
- Just dip in glitter!
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- Cook up some cute donuts.
- Show some Sewanee spirit! YSR.
- And of course you can never go wrong with a monogram!
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Happy Halloween!