Free for your Halloween pumpkin

This year, yours is the pumpkin everyone stops for.

3 free carving templates: one for beginners, one to learn the glow effect, and one real showpiece. Printable, designed to actually work on a pumpkin, with simple instructions.

  • PDF straight to your inbox
  • Prints on regular letter paper at home
  • Short how-to included, from scooping to lighting
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Sound familiar?

Same pumpkin, every single year

Every year

Two triangles and a zigzag

Nobody has a better idea, so it's the same face again. Or you grab a random template online, and halfway through a piece falls out and the whole design caves in.

This year

Print, tape, poke, carve

You print a template that's made for pumpkins, tape it on and poke along the lines. Then you cut. The gray areas give it that soft glow people walk up to your porch to look at.

What you get free

One template for every level

Start easy with the kids, then work your way up to the one the neighbors take pictures of.

Easy

The Classic

The jack-o'-lantern done right. Kids 5 and up can help with everything except the cutting.

Medium

Cat in the Moonlight

Teaches you the glow trick: the moon is scraped, not cut, so it shines softly behind the cat.

Advanced

Haunted House

Your showpiece for the front steps. Plan an evening for this one, then enjoy the compliments.

Plus one page of instructions, from scooping it out to the light test.

How it works

Three steps to your best pumpkin yet

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Print

Print the PDF on regular letter paper and tape the template onto your pumpkin.

Carve

Poke along the lines, cut out the black parts, scrape the gray. Light it up.

Thought through to the last cut

Templates that hold together

Every design is built so nothing falls apart halfway through: no loose islands, no thin bridges that snap. The gray areas only get scraped, so the light glows through instead of blasting out. That's the difference between a cute pumpkin and one people photograph.

3free templates
8.5×11print-ready letter size
$0no cost, no catch
Questions

Good to know

Is it really free?
Yes. No hidden costs, no subscription, no credit card.
Which pumpkin should I buy?
A carving pumpkin, the big ones sold as jack-o'-lantern pumpkins. Skip pie pumpkins: their walls are so thick your hand gives out after ten minutes.
Can my kids do this?
The Classic is made for them. Kids scoop, tape and poke the lines, an adult does the cutting. Everybody gets their job.
What happens with my email?
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Halloween comes fast. Print tonight, carve this weekend.

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