Printable Pumkin Carving Patterns

Pumpkin Carving Patterns - Just about every website that sells printable pumpkin carving patterns and pumpkin carving tools also offers at least a few pumpkin carving patters that are printable and free to their visitors. If you are planning to carve a pumpkin and are looking for ideas, I would suggest that you click on the links I have provided below and brows through the freebies before opening your wallet. None of the patterns are particularly expensive but if the free ones would do, why pay at all? Right?

So here are the links to brows through. Take your time, enjoy the process and remember, you can always go back some other time and you can print as many of the free patters as you like and as many of the for-payment patterns as you can afford. And by the way, all these websites provide instructions as well. Go for it:

- www.PumpkinMasters.com – Here you will find three wonderful and free printable pumpkin carving patters that I am sure you would love: Jack Junior, Pirate Skull and Starry Night. In addition, they offer entire books of pumpkin carving patters and all their tool kits include patterns as well.

- http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?catref=cat4180036&storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/Halloween_MrMummy_07112002.xml - This fun and free printable pattern for creating a mummy requires a white pumpkin, for a change. If you cannot find a white pumpkin, buy some acrylic white paint and whitewash the pumpkin you did find.

- www.HP.com – This website offers some super easy patterns for your Halloween theme. They also have a selection of nature themes in pumpkin carving patters from the World Wildlife Fund which are terrific. All the patterns on their website are printable and free.

- www.PumpkinGlow.com – At this website you will find such patriotic printable pumpkin carving patters as an American Flag, the Liberty Bell, the Lincoln Memorial, the Statue of Liberty, the American Eagle, President George Washington, Mt. Rushmore and The Patriot. Here you will also find a vast selection of printable patterns featuring celebrities, animals, Christian themes, goofy faces and miscellaneous others. And the good news is that they are all printable and free to you.

- www.PumpkinLady.com – This website offers a wide variety of free printable patterns which include faces, spooky themes, letters and number as well as other non-Halloween themes. In addition, this website also offers masterful printable pumpkin carving patters for a mere $5 a piece.

- www.KraftFoods.com – This site offers six fun but easy pumpkin carving patters which are completely free to you. And while you are there, you might want to check out their great recipes and Halloween decoration ideas.

- http://familyfun.go.com/printables/season/specialfeature/halloween-printables-ms/ - This site has a very nice selection of printable pumpkin carving patters, all of which are free and they range from the very easy to the more difficult but certainly not impossible.

I have no doubt whatsoever that with so much to choose from you will find the pattern that will suit you. But now allow me to offer a few tips that will help preserve and prolong the longevity of your beautifully crafted Jack O’ Lantern for a bit longer than the usual two to five days:

- To reduce shriveling, coat all the carved edges of your Jack O’ Lantern with petroleum jelly.
- When your Jack O’ Lantern is not being displayed, cover it with a plastic wrap or insert it into a plastic bag and put it into the refrigerator. This will help prevent molding and postpone the inevitable dehydration.
- If your Jack O’ Lantern seems to have begun shriveling, revive it by soaking in water overnight and letting it drain for about thirty minutes before drying with a towel and displaying again.
- Keep your Jack O’ Lantern out of the sun when it is being displayed.

Have a happy Halloween!

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