Introduction: How to Carve a Pumpkin

By Fun and Food Cafe

With Halloween around the corner, this step-by-step tutorial filled with loads of tips, tricks and pictures, will help you create your best carved pumpkin to display on the night of Halloween! From choosing to cutting, prepping, tracing, carving and preserving the pumpkin, we have you covered. Don’t forget to check out some Free Printable Stencils for your Pumpkins at the end of this post!

You may have been carving pumpkins for a long time, but I am sure some of these tips will still come in handy. Did you know that it is better to cut a pumpkin from below rather than the top? How can you make the perfect  first cut? In what ways can you transfer the pattern onto the pumpkin? and how can you keep your carved pumpkin fresh throughout the Halloween week?

All these tips, plus FREE Pumpkin Printables all included in this Pumpkin-Carving Tutorial at funandfoodcafe.com

Click below for the complete Printable tutorial:
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