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Reader Stories: Share Your Pumpkin Design

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Check out these fun photos of pumpkins and then make your own. Carve or decorate your own pumpkin and then submit it to be included in this collection.

Phantom Pumpkin

**1** Start by placing (I prefer) paper bags on a flat surface strong enough to hold a little bit more than your pumpkins weight. **2** Set tools up close to you and pumpkin. **3** Next, circling the…More

Pumpkin Belly

My daughter wanted to dress-up to take her 3 year old trick or treating, however she could not get her costume to cover her very pregnant belly. So her hubby painted a pumpkin on her belly and she wa…More

Haunted House M&Ms

Glue the poster board to the box top and paint the "yard" green. Glue spider web (only slightly stretched out) to the box top to create a fog effect. Color haunted house, moon, and any other decorati…More

University of Phoenix Logo Pumpkin

  Copy & Paste to create an image file. Open the file in PhotoShop, resize image to desired size, convert any light colors to dark (black), Print out on plain paper, cut out (carefully) the blac…More

Boo's Halloween Lair Pumpkin

 First cut top of pumpkin to be removed. Then draw face on pumpkin, carve out the face design, remove all pieces carefully. Using soup spoon scrape out pumpkin seeds and inner slimy glop until j…More

VG Blue Devil Pumpkin

  I basically used anything around the kitchen that would just peel the pumpkin skin off easily without making to big of marks. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun also. Our Football team has …More

Iron Man pumpkin by David Imperato

 This year, I decided to go all out and sculpt a pumpkin! This was my first time ever sculpting anything, so I was a bit nervous through the first few minutes. After a while, I got in the zone a…More

OH NO Pumpkin

 This pumpkin is very easy to do and very very effective.Carve out the pumpkin inside.Using a black pen draw the eyes, nose, and mouth of your choice ~ a shocked expression works best.Trace arou…More

Blue M&M Halloween Witch

Learn how Cameron Hortin dressed up an ordinary pumpkin to look like a blur M & M wearing a witches costume. "Choose a pumpkin that looks like an M&M, in my case I chose a peanut M&M (my favorite). B…More

Gizmo Halloween Pumpkin

  Will used a simple Walmart pumpkin carving kit and a stencil he made on his computer using a picture of Gizmo. I had a hard time finding a big enough pumpkin for the 8x12 stencil that i made. …More

Corella Pumpella Decorated Pumpkin

 Check out this fabulous witch pumpkin made by Brynn! You start out by painting the pumpkin with acrylic apple green paint. Paint on eyes and rotten teeth with acrylic paint as well. Use ginger …More

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