Carving a pumpkin for Halloween is not just for kids – people of all ages get into the spirit of Halloween with this annual tradition. Jack o lantern designs range from simple to elaborateand you may be perfectly capable of creating a masterpiece, but lack the time required! Whatever your situation may be we have made it easy for you to get started with 18 jack o lantern ideas to inspire your Halloween. Knives out!!
Glam Jack
Give your pumpkin and unexpected razzle dazzle with a dusting of glue and glitter craft supplies. This beauty will shimmer in the sunshine and twinkle at night.
Clever Jack
Kids will love this take on cheese and mice and it’s so easy to make! Simply coat your pumpkin with yellow paint, drill or cut some holes and add the mice – easy-peasy!
Creepy Jacks
Walking past these impaled jack o lanterns might be a little scary! After you carve the face on your pumpkin hit it with a hammer to smash it, be careful not to break it open.
Monster Jack
Except for the paint & glue, this Frankenstein jack o lantern is completely edible! Licorice hair, asparagus eyes, cucumber nose, sugar cookie & raisin eyes, lollipop ears, mushroom feet and a mouth made from a pea shell.
Shabby Chic Jack
This jack o lantern is truly one of a kind – perfect for the Diva in your life!
Flower Jack
Release your inner artist with this advanced pumpkin carving. Warning: Extra time required to complete this design!! You can find pumpkin carving templates like this one at Budget 101.
Witch Jack
What’s Halloween without a witch? Flip your pumpkin on it’s side and carve out some beady eyes and sinister mouth. Add some hair and a witch hat to complete her look.
Painted Jack
Welcome your trick or treaters with a classic painted pumpkin design. It’s best to clean your pumpkin before you start painting it and acrylic paints work best. For more pumpkin painting ideas read out post 9 Easy Pumpkin Painting Designs for Fall
Silly Jack
This one has to make you laugh! Such a clever idea and super easy to make. Cut a large curvy mouth out of your pumpkin and then add the eyes. They are made from Easter egg halves and craft paper. Hot glue the pupils into the Easter egg halves and then hot glue the eggs onto the stem of the pumpkin. Think the hardest part will be to get them to stay put!
Mummy Jack
Simple, but effective! Wrap your pumpkin with cheesecloth or gauze and glue on some eyes and a mouth for the most adorable mummy ever.
Scarecrow Jack
Add a smile to your trick or treaters faces with this happy scarecrow design. Simply care a pumpkin face design, add candy corn in assorted shapes and sizes for its eyes and corn husks for its hair and bow.
Fall Jack
Etching a design on your pumpkin instead of carving it saves you the trouble of having to dig out the pulp and it creates a beautiful jack o lantern! Using a non-serrated knife cut along the pattern template and then peel off the skin to reveal a lighter orange.
Turkey Jack
Surround this jack o lantern with pumpkins, hay bales and mums and your front porch is decorated from now until Christmas.
Stalker Jack
Someone is watching you! You’ll need 2 small white and 2 large orange pumpkins to create these jack o lanterns. Hollow out the orange pumpkins, carve some eye lashes, paint eyes onto the white pumpkins to create these peepers.
Slither Jack
Leave it to Martha to come up with the best way to scare trick or treaters on Halloween. Guests will squirm when they walk by these snake infested pumpkins. Spray paint pumpkin stems and plastic snakes gold and the drape them onto the pumpkins.
