Use these free pumpkin carving patterns and stencils to create the best jack-o-lantern on the block. Choose from spooky, cute, and advanced templates.

This is everything you need to know about how to paint a pumpkin and crucially the 60 best ideas for painting, from cute to funny to scary.

Leave your neighbours jealous of your fabulous creations and have all the trick-or-treaters marvelling at your pumpkin skills. Choose the largest pumpkin you can find as this will make the carving process less fiddly. The key to a great lantern is a simple design that’s easy to draw and straightforward to carve.

It’s that time of year again—pumpkin spice is back, skeletons are doing yoga poses on everyone’s front lawn, and the pressure to carve the perfect pumpkin is real. But let’s be honest, most of us are one wrong cut away from turning our pumpkin into a Pinterest fail.