Weird and Unique Jack O’ Lantern Designs

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:55:17 +0000

Turn extra pumpkins into unique Jack O’ Lanterns for decorating your porch, deck, or yard this Halloween. With the use of pumpkin lights, jar candles, or low-watt outdoor Christmas strings, you can light an elaborate pumpkin display of creative proportions.

The Caterpillar

Form a chain of pumpkins with carved spots, stripes, or other simple designs and a carved caterpillar “face” at the head. A string of pumpkin or low-heat lights will be perfect for lighting up a curved and twisting caterpillar on your porch or stoop.

Totem Pole

Stack your carved pumpkin faces into a totem pole lit with jar candles, touch lights, or a string of pumpkin lights inserted through holes in the back. Each face or front design can be unique — for a creative touch, consider the animal designs favored in ancient totem poles or try out your own silly or scary designs — how about the scariest characters from classic horror films?

Chain of Heads

A variety of different faces and ghoulish expressions are perfect for creating a long row of lanterns to line your porch, deck, or steps. Whether you carve cartoon characters, shrunken heads, or simple the standard Jack O’ Lantern faces, a row of grinning pumpkins on your porch is sure to produce a few compliments. For an extra unique touch: carve large selections from White Lumos pumpkins with “skull” faces for a Halloween pirate scene.

The variety of faces, details, and designs you can create are limited only to your imagination. Enjoy showing off your pumpkin harvest in a stellar Jack O’ Lantern extravaganza this Halloween.

Unique, Weird, and Creative Pumpkin Carving Ideas

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:08:11 +0000

Practice your creative carving skills this Halloween by turning your Jack O’ Lantern into a work of art. Whether you invest in a pumpkin carving kit or a knife and maybe a cheap hand drill you won’t worry about clogging with pumpkin goo, you can create an incredible Halloween lantern like no other.

Mini Heads and Monsters

Carve a gaping-mouthed monster from a standard Halloween pumpkin — then turn it cannibal. A hand drill with large and small bit and a few mini pumpkins can create a small host of open-mouthed “heads” awaiting devouring by your creation. Simply hollow them with the large bit, then drill smaller holes to represent the mouth and eyes. Wedge one in your monsters mouth and place the others around it.

Siamese Screams

Search for a “double pumpkin” — two pumpkins which grew together as one — and transform into scary or silly Siamese twins. Whether you prefer “theater masks”, fiendish expressions, or something unique to your own imagination, your creation is sure to turn trick or treater’s heads this Halloween.

Frankenstein’s Monster

Carve a green pumpkin into a scarred and scary monster worthy of horror’s ultimate scientist. A simple carving knife can create features, scars with stitches, and other details on your pumpkin. Add a few side “bolts” in Frank’s neck and a light to show him off. For another creative design, carve a witch face — complete with a long green nose — in a green pumpkin for a “wicked” look.

A cool Jack O’ Lantern is worth the extra effort — display your perfect creation on your front porch or front windowsill and show off your incredible carving skills this Halloween.

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