This Mickey Mouse Pumpkin Will Make You Want to Upgrade Your Pumpkin Carving Skills (2024)

Keep the feeling of summer going with a pumpkin-turned pineapple, complete with sunglasses. Simply spray paint your gourd yellow before using green cardstock to DIY the pineapple head.

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Your bumpy pumpkins and gourds can be used for Halloween night before throwing them away for good. Make eyeballs by cutting styrofoam balls in half and hot gluing candy to the center (chocolatey M&M's, perhaps?). Hollow out the gourds to create the ears and use twigs for the teeth and tiny legs.

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Keep it in the family and go for these no-carve and no-face pumpkins. All you need to transform plain gourds are felt bows, glasses and mustaches.

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Cookie Monster has never looked so cute! Spray paint your pumpkin blue before hot gluing styrofoam balls to the gourd to represent the eyes. Use black cardstock for the cookie monster's mouth and a black paint marker to draw the eyeballs.

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If you can't find a white pumpkin at your local pumpkin patch, spray paint the gourd white. Cut out the shapes for the "kitty's" eyes, nose and whiskers before gluing them to the pumpkin. The adorable witch hat is another DIY creation, made using construction paper and felt.

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If gnomes were real, we're sure they'd look just as adorable as these pumpkin replicas. Start by tracing this hat template on wool fabric. Adjust the size based on your preference before cutting it out. Glue straight edges together using craft glue and fill the hat with batting so it stands tall on the pumpkin. Hot glue wood craft beads for the nose and create a beard using yarn.

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A painted spooky skeleton can be made by stacking two pumpkins on top of each other. Leave the oval gourd on top and the circular one at the bottom. For the finishing touch, spray paint them white and use black paint for the face and ribs.

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Paint your mini pumpkins black to transform them into adorable kittens. After the paint dries, use rhinestones for the eyes and embroidery thread for the whiskers. You can cut out cat ears from velour paper before attaching them to the pumpkins with toothpicks.

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Search your backyard for leaves, nuts, acorns, seeds and other nature-inspired elements. Use toothpicks to attach them to small, large and medium-sized gourds to create a woodland creature family.

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Turn your plain pumpkin into a fancy vampire by carving out the mouth and filling the space with fake vampire teeth. Or, simply hot glue the teeth to the pumpkin's front.

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A basic pumpkin gets an eye-catching transformation simply by attaching an eye mask to the gourd. Get creative with the masks chosen, opting for colorful and lacey designs that'll really make the decoration unique.

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Prepare to make the cutest scary pumpkin ever. Just wrap and glue fringe or yarn around the stem of a pumpkin, adding two to three layers until it looks nice and full. Using hot glue, attach googly eyes onto the fringe and add personality with cut paper eyelids and teeth.

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We're obsessed with the idea of turning your pumpkins into planters. You can carve any face you'd like and use the greenery as hair.

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The eyes and nose won't be a problem at all. To create the more realistic teeth, simply draw on the mouth that you'd like and shave off the orange so just the flesh is exposed. Then, you'll just use your knife to shape the teeth of your choice. Just be careful and take your time.

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Woman's Day has the full details on how to create the tin man and scarecrow, but we're focusing on the beautiful lion!

To make: Hollow a large pumpkin from the base. Carve the mouth and eyes. Cut the nose from a smaller pumpkin, paint it black and then let it dry. Attach the nose to to a large pumpkin with toothpicks. Halve and hollow a small orange pumpkin for the snout and secure it with wood skewers. Halve and hollow a small orange pumpkin for ears and cut them flat on one side, before securing them to the bigger pumpkin with toothpicks. Straight-pin faux chrysanthemums around the face for the mane.

To make this spa-going pumpkin face, simply paint a "face mask" onto a real or faux pumpkin, while leaving space for the nose and mouth. Let it dry completely. Then, stretch a decorative shower cap onto the pumpkin's "head" and pin it in place with straight pins. To make the cucumber eyes, just print images of cucumbers from a picture online and glue them on.

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Grab some gourds and squashes from your local grocery store and simply create any face you want with acrylic paint.

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After painting your pumpkin to your liking, use an awl to create eyeholes. Place flowers inside to represent the eyes and carve a square for fake fangs.

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Oh, deer! This pumpkin design couldn't be cuter. All you need for this woodland creature-inspired look are a couple of tree branches, yarn, felt and buttons for eyes. Wind some yarn tightly around the branches and secure loose yarn ends with hot glue. To insert the antlers, drill two holes into the upper third of the shell, angling the drill bit down, so the antlers stick up, not out.

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We dare you to find a mooo-re adorable pumpkin. Start by downloading, tracing and cutting out the cow nose and ears template onto brown leather. Repeat with the forehead pattern on a corn husk. Hot glue the ears, nose and forehead to the bottom of a pumpkin. Paint two pumpkin seeds with black craft paint. Hot glue the seeds for nostrils, black buttons for eyes and dried bunny tail grass tops for horns.

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