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Home » Halloween Crafts » 20 Unique Pumpkin Carving Ideas

20 Unique Pumpkin Carving Ideas

September 9, 2022 By Jamie Dorobek 36 Comments

My favorite part of seeing back to school supplies out in stores is knowing that Halloween stuff is next! Ha! Who is with me? This list of unique pumpkin carving ideas has something for everyone including a pumpkin with braces and even Nemo. Check out these 20 creative pumpkin carving ideas and other fun ways to decorate pumpkins this Halloween.

Unique pumpkin carving ideas

Funny Pumpkin Carving Ideas

1. Hungry pumpkin

Amanda carved this very hungry pumpkin! Simply carve a scary face into a large orange pumpkin. Then, add a smaller pumpkin inside of the larger pumpkins mouth. Be sure to use the smaller pumpkins stem as the nose so that it will fit inside the mouth of the larger pumpkin.

Creative pumpkin carving ideas

2. Puking Pumpkin

This is such a simple, but genius pumpkin carving idea! Best part? You don’t even waste the seeds!

3. Eyeball pumpkin

Bee Moon Sketches created this amazing eyeball pumpkin by carving a large oval in the orange pumpkin. Next, paint an eyeball on a white pumpkin and place it inside the orange pumpkin. So clever!

How to carve an eyeball pumpkin

4. Nerdy Pumpkin

The nerdy pumpkin takes some serious carving skills, but it’s worth it! It doesn’t get much better than a pumpkin with braces and glasses.

Funny pumpkin carving ideas

5. Toothy grin pumpkin

Turn the pumpkin on its side and use the stem as a nose! This pumpkin is creepy perfection. (Picture found via Curious Bird.)

Unique pumpkin carving ideas

6. Pumpkin hamburger

It doesn’t get much better (or easier) than a pumpkin cheese hamburger!

7. Man eating pumpkin

Carve a pumpkin and add a slice of pool noodle covered in the bottom of jean leg. Add a sock and shoe and you’ve got a man eating pumpkin!

8. Hungry pumpkin

Here’s another version of a hungry pumpkin!

Hungry pumpkin carving

Cute Pumpkin Carving ideas

9. Piggie and Elephant Pumpkins

If you’re a Mo Willems fan, these pumpkins are for you! All you need is a little card board, spray paint, and a hot glue gun to make these Piggie and Elephant pumpkin masterpieces.

Piggie and Elephant pumpkins

10. Ice cream cone pumpkin

It doesn’t get much cuter in the world of pumpkins than this pumpkin turned ice cream cone! Marra crafted this ice cream beauty with wait for it… insulating foam and a terra cotta pot! (Psst… You can buy the easy to use spray insulation foam here on Amazon.)
No carve ice cream pumpkin

11. Nemo Pumpkin

Bring Nemo to life with a little duck tape, vinyl and toothpicks!

FInding Nemo Pumpkin

12. Nuts and Bolts

Take a trip to your garage to find a few random washers, screws, hooks, and bolts for a silly faces pumpkin. Find the complete tutorial at Lowes.

13. Pumpkin diorama

I bet you’ve never seen a pumpkin diorama before! Carve out the front of the pumpkin and add moss, rocks, greenery, and twigs as trees to create this wolf howling at the moon pumpkin diorama.
DIY pumpkin diorama

14. Tacky Pumpkins

Who would have thought office supply worked so well to decorate pumpkins?  Bonus, it’s also really easy!
Pumpkin decorating ideas

15. Henna pumpkins

Give your pumpkins a chic facelift with a little puff paint! Find the full tutorial at Alisa Burke.

Unique Pumpkin decorating ideas
16. Mod Pumpkins

A little paint, tape, and paintbrushes goes a long way. Find the full tutorial at Happy Mundane.

17. Spooky fancy

Just add lace! Preferably black spider web lace for this modern black and white pumpkin look. Find out more at Starshine Chic.

18. Sea glass smile

This might be the easiest pumpkin carving idea yet. Carve 3 simple triangles and a largemouth shape, then use sea glass as teeth! So cute and simple. Found via Intimate Weddings.

Sea glass pumpkin carving idea

 

19. Tree

There is less pumpkin carving and more pumpkin stacking going on here. Transform three real or fake pumpkins into a tree for your patio. Check out the complete tutorial on Simpsonized Crafts.

20. Honey Bear

Now, here’s a beary cute pumpkin carving idea! Don’t forget the pot of pumpkin honey!

21. Duck tape pumpkins

Who knew you could use duck tape to make such awesome pumpkin faces?

Duck tape pumpkins
Which unique pumpkin carving ideas is your favorite? 
Oh and if you’re looking for more Halloween ideas, don’t miss these:
  • 21 Ways to decorate a pumpkin
  • 39 DIY adult Halloween costumes
  • 29 DIY kid Halloween costumes

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Comments

  1. marissa | Rae Gun Ramblings says

    September 16, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    these are so cute!

    Reply
  2. Jane says

    July 6, 2013 at 8:00 am

    Wow these are awesome pumpkin photographs and carvings.

    I know another cool website with carving ideas – http://pumpkincarvingideas.org

    Reply
  3. Chrissy says

    October 24, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Fantastic pics!!! great inspiration for us!!!

    Reply
  4. mark says

    September 17, 2012 at 11:03 am

    i love these ideas!

    Reply
  5. Maureen says

    September 12, 2012 at 9:29 pm

    WOW, there are some seriously talented and creative folks out there. I enjoyed seeing everyne’s take on pumpkins, each one was unique and fun!

    Reply
  6. Sophie says

    August 24, 2012 at 8:43 pm

    These are really cool! Thanks for the inspiration !

    Reply
  7. Lynnee says

    August 22, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    These are great! I also wanted to share how my sister repurposed the pumpkins after Halloween into Christmas decorations: http://club.chicacircle.com/holiday-pumpkins-re-purposed/

    Reply
    • Jamie D. says

      August 23, 2012 at 8:42 am

      That is so creative! Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  8. vicki ross says

    June 23, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    I thought they were all cute. Wish I’d made them but the one that made me LOL was the puke one. I know I’ sick, but what can I say. Funny is funny.

    Reply
  9. Vikki says

    January 15, 2012 at 9:01 am

    I love the leg eating one!

    http://www.morbidmoments.blogspot.com

    Reply
  10. ME says

    October 13, 2011 at 11:03 am

    The leg eating Pumpkin – Very Halloween ! and very inspiring, thank You !!!

    Reply
  11. NetJunkie - RW says

    October 10, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    The hamburger, the honey bear and the man-eating pumpkins were my favorites but they were all interesting and inspired.

    Reply
  12. Luvthenews says

    October 1, 2011 at 9:52 am

    Thanks for the really cool ideas! I think that I will make several of these, starting with the hamburger.

    Reply
  13. monsterforrent says

    September 29, 2011 at 8:59 am

    Great post! These are great.

    Reply
  14. juliecache says

    September 24, 2011 at 1:04 am

    The man-eating pumpkin is funny! Will pass this post on to some others.

    Reply
  15. Vicky says

    September 23, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    LOVE all of these! Nice blog!

    Reply
  16. wanderingamericantravelblog says

    September 22, 2011 at 11:45 pm

    These were fantastic. I think this is the first time stumbleupon has given me anything cool.

    Reply
  17. artistsinprogress says

    September 21, 2011 at 7:15 am

    I think a half eaten child in a possessed pumpkin should do the 'trick'. Great stuff.

    Reply
  18. DANI HARPER says

    September 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Totally choice! I really enjoyed your selection of pumpkin ideas. Thanks!

    Reply
  19. f4a718ba-e3d9-11e0-9fc7-000bcdca4d7a says

    September 20, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    This really got my in the Halloween spirit- thanks!

    Reply
  20. Peggy Eddleman says

    September 20, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    They're all fabulous! I think the one I'm most likely to do is the Toothy Grin. So cool.

    Reply
  21. Amanda says

    September 19, 2011 at 11:29 am

    I pinned some of these on my pinterest board! http://pinterest.com/dittdott/neat-ideas/

    Reply
  22. AMY says

    September 18, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    Love them! I'm hoping to do some cool ones this year!

    Reply
  23. Anorexic C Turtle says

    September 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    You know leaching images and not hosting them from your own site is really rude. It eats up other people's bandwidth and makes you look like an idiot, especially when you have a "bandwidth exceeded" post from photobucket.

    Reply
  24. margot ruth says

    September 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    definitely man eating leg!

    Reply
  25. pat says

    September 18, 2011 at 11:43 am

    good collection, although 1 and 2 have both been around the block a dozen times.

    Reply
  26. Christina says

    September 14, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    I LOVE the chalkboard one! I love all things chalkboard 😉

    Such fun ideas!
    xo

    Reply
  27. [email protected] will craft says

    September 14, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    I think the man eating pumpkin is fun but I don't think I'd make that one. Maybe the spooky fancy one – dressed up just a bit.

    Reply
  28. The Johnson Familia says

    September 13, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    I am totally doing the doily pumpkin!

    Reply
  29. Kelley @ TheGrantLife.com says

    September 13, 2011 at 10:13 am

    awesome ideas Jamie! Thanks for the pumpkin inspiration.

    Reply
    • Sandra Cassel says

      September 18, 2012 at 4:20 pm

      These are awesome!

      Reply
      • floyd pedigo says

        October 14, 2013 at 11:36 am

        these really are awsome they look great i wish that i was that creative:)

        Reply
  30. Terry says

    September 13, 2011 at 11:35 am

    Ha ha,…they are all awesome. I love the henna,..so pretty.

    Reply
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