Scary Pumpkin Carving Designs with Free Patterns

Carving a scary pumpkin design is one of the best ways to scare the daylights out of your friends, family and neighbors at Halloween. The free printable pumpkin carving patterns included with this article are all very scary, yet are also easy to carve. To get started with these pumpkin carving designs, click on the gray box at the upper left hand corner of the pattern image at the top of the screen. At the bottom of the image, select the number of the pattern you'd like to use, then click on the image and print the pumpkin carving pattern on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper. Check the print preview first to ensure that the pumpkin carving patterns will print properly. Carve out the top of each pumpkin and scoop out the seeds and pulp before you begin carving the patterns. Attach the scary pumpkin carving pattern to your pumpkin with tape, then use a pin or a pointed pumpkin carving tool to impress the image in the pattern onto the pumpkin by poking through the black lines on the paper.

Free Scary Pumpkin Carving Pattern #1: Sinister Face

Use a fine saw to carve out the areas that are yellow on the sinister face printable pumpkin carving pattern. Work to get as sharp an edge on the teeth as possible. Carve a fine point at the corners of the mouth and eyes. Then use a pumpkin very fine tool to carve the thin furrows in the brow above the inner eyes. This pumpkin carving pattern will be even scarier if you carve it on a misshapen pumpkin or gourd.

Free Scary Pumpkin Carving Pattern #2: Snarling Black Cat

Carve out the scary black cat's mouth, nose and eyes using a fine pumpkin carving tool. Make the cat's teeth very sharp and take care not to accidentally cut or break them off. Leave some pumpkin for the cat's pupils, as shown in the printable pumpkin carving pattern. Carve out a thin sliver of pumpkin to create the scary black cat's ears. Work slowly and don't carve out too much pumpkin. For added effect, paint the shape of a cat face around the pumpkin carving in black acrylic craft paint, then paint white on the teeth and black or green on the pupils of the eyes.

Free Scary Pumpkin Carving Pattern #3: Skull

Carve the areas of the scary skull pumpkin carving that are yellow in the printable pumpkin carving pattern. Use a small loop tool to carve the shape of the outside of the skull and the teeth. Peel away only the top layers of the pumpkin of these lines. Use a very slender loop tool to peel away the lines between the teeth. When the scary skull pumpkin carving is finished and the pumpkin is lit from inside with a candle, these parts of the pumpkin should glow orange.

Free Scary Pumpkin Carving Pattern #4: Scary Witch Face

The scary witch pumpkin carving is easy to carve. Carve out the witch's face area first. Make sure that you leave a large circle of pumpkin intact so that you can carve the witch's eye. Then hold this pumpkin circle while you carve the eye, and be careful not to break it. Leave a small circle of pumpkin to represent the witch's eyeball. Use a finer tool to carve the line above the witch's head, which indicates her hat.

Re-print these patterns whenever you want to make a scary pumpkin carving. Remember to bookmark this page so that you can find it later. For more pumpkin carving ideas, read Most Unusual Pumpkin Carving Designs and Decorations, More Unusual Pumpkin Carving Ideas with Free Stencils and Free Unique Pumpkin Carving Patterns on the Web.