Pumpkin Carving Ideas - 10 Carved Pumpkin Designs

Check out these 10 pumpkin carving ideas. They are sure to give you some inspiration when you get ready to carve your pumpkin this year.

Each year at this time, we seem to discover new and unusual ways to carve a pumpkin. And there are so many pumpkin types to choose from.

Pumpkins that have been harvested at the right time have the best color and firmest rinds and are perfect for carving.

Let’s get creative this year! Gone are the traditional Jack 0 Lantern pumpkins, and roll in the new ideas! Looking for some Halloween inspiration?

It seems that pumpkin carving gets more and more intricate each year. Some of these designs are like a work of art! In fact, this process of carving vegetables is actually called food art!

Pumpkin Carving at its Best

Here are a few of my favorites. They range from a wonderful Santa Claus design in an old-world style to various Halloween designs to scare and delight you.

This is one of my favorites. I love how the flames carved into the pumpkins make the whole display look like a log fire.

Just arrange your pumpkins with the largest on the bottom and surround them with logs and leaves. So effective! Get the stencils to carve these pumpkins from BHG.

this is one of those times that I don’t mind rushing the Christmas holiday. Such a creative carving and very old-world looking too! Source: Labyrinth Creations.

This one is just adorable. This pumpkin has been carved into a cute owl. Idea shared from Remove and Replace.

This one is so cute. He looks almost as though he has marshmallow teeth. Image shared from Flickr.

Harry Potter Fans will love this design from Alex Wer. Alex is a true artist who turns images of famous people into carved pumpkin works of art. See more designs from Alex here.

Ray Villafane is considered by many to be a master of pumpkin carving and this image shows just why. It has incredible detail and texture to it and is so lifelike. See more of Ray’s creations at Villafane Studios.

It appears that mother and daughter had the same idea for an article. My daughter also has a blog called Jess Explains it all.

She recently did a round-up of her favorite carved pumpkins and made this collage for them. You can see her article here.

This design is one that my daughter featured in her article above. What is interesting about this one is that it is a faux pumpkin carved with an exacto knife.

The design is called Cat in the Window. What artistic skill! Image shared from Art Beco on Flickr.

Another Ray Villafane carving masterpiece. This time it is a realistic skeleton head carving. The guy is an artist!

This cute design is a family of pumpkins carved into a pumpkin with a gate and bat decoration. It’s very different from your ordinary design. You can download the template from it at Dot Com Women.

If these designs have inspired you to create your own design, be sure to read my article “ tips to carving a perfect pumpkin.“