One of my all time favorite fall time activities is pumpkin carving. I can remember carving pumpkins ever since I was a wee little one. My whole family gets really into it each year and we end up buying a ton of pumpkins just to carve. We use the Pumpkin Masters carving patterns to make our jack-o-lanterns. These patterns really make our otherwise plain pumpkins into great pumpkin masterpieces. I think I would still be doing the two triangle eyes and zig-zag mouth if I didn’t have these patterns to go of off (not that there is anything wrong with a classic pumpkin!) My family has a stockpile of older carving stencils because some of the best patterns are in their older books.
This past weekend, Rose and I made a trip up to New Hampshire in part to see the gorgeous fall foliage but also in a bigger part to carve pumpkins! My mom had about 12 pumpkins waiting for us when we arrived. Here are the lovely and spooky jack-o-lanterns that we made:
It was so hard to choose which pattern to use because my family has so many good ones!
Now hopefully they will just last until Halloween…
Tell us: do you like to carve pumpkins for Halloween?
Do you use the carving patterns or free hand it?
Which is your favorite pumpkin we carved?? (don’t worry, you won’t offend anyone 🙂 )
Oh my gosh you are sooooooooooooo talented! I’m lucky if I can get out a triangle face! 🙂
Haha thank you!! Except most of the talent is from using a stencil – otherwise I wouldn’t be able to make even a face! 🙂