If you're looking to carve more than a grimace into your gourd this Halloween, visit these Web sites for free pumpkin-carving patterns, tips and techniques. From spooky smiles to celebrity ghosts, a stenciled pumpkin will make your porch the most menacing in the neighbourhood.
The Pumpkin Wizard
The Pumpkin Wizard boasts the best pumpkin-carving patterns on the web. With more than 300 free patterns, you may find yourself carving the whole pumpkin patch! Choose from superheroes, cartoon characters, television personalities and traditional Halloween images.
Attack of the Zombie Pumpkins
Even if some of the patterns scare you off at first, Zombie Pumpkins promises that no special sculpting skills are required to create the pumpkins from their assortment of spine-tingling stencils. Find your favourite Movie Monsters and Television Terrors, or choose from the collection of unique creations (don't miss the “Creature Reacher”). Once you've created your masterpiece, photograph your jack-o-lantern and enter the site's Creepy Contest.
Pumpkin Glow
Become the Picasso of pumpkin-carving when you download patterns from PumpkinGlow.com. Choose from sports team logos, animals, cartoons and more!
Fabulous Foods Jack-o-Lantern Carving 101
Browse through the Jack-o-Lantern photo gallery to provide some inspiration before you sculpt your pumpkin. Stencils to create The Munsters and Marilyn Monroe, as well as some haunting halloween stencils, are available at this site. Read the list of carving tips to learn how to add extra jack-o-lantern features and light your pumpkin.
