Self Carving Pumpkin

Tired of carving pumpkins? Have a large squirrel population in your neighborhood?
With a little guidance and a couple of days, they will do the job for you.

Required tools
Drill
1/8" or larger drill bit
smooth peanut butter

Step 1: Drill guide holes

The drilling process can be pretty rough as it is difficult to control the accuracy of the squirrel's gnawing.

Start with an uncut pumpkin. You do not need to open it up and scoop out the guts. The squirrels do that for you.

Using a drill on low speed to reduce spattering, start out by drilling holes where you want the final holes in the pumpkin to appear. As shown in the first picture, I have drilled 1 hole each for the eyes, nose and a line of holes for the mouth. Drill all the way through the pumpkin flesh.

Drill around these holes to make the openings bigger as shown in the 2nd and 3rd photos.

Comments

[Plo Koon]

Yeah. Terrifying. Heehee. Smart idea though.

[Evilthingamabober]

...wat?

[TyMan210]

 If you heat the peanut butter, it might work better with the cake decorating syringe. The only problem would be keeping it heated.

[pepilindo]

that's scary
haha

[Wehrdo]

This is ingenious!  If I had another pumpkin, I would totally do this! But I already used the Precision Pumpkin Carving guide on here to make an awesome tiger.  Maybe next year...

[cowscankill]

They ate his face! lol

[Thelonelysandwitch]

I just use fire crackers, it works faster, and funner

[mikeasaurus]

wow!

I love the idea, It would be fun to leave out a few and see how many different faces you can get, maybe even get some mice eating them too!

Then take the pumpkins and light them up at Halloween, maybe even throw in some of these and one of these for good measure

[TheWelfareWarrior]

It almost looks like bacteria... Are pumpkins good for squirls?

[JakeTobak]

Very kewl and creative.

[Lady Firelyght]

This is awesome. I lol'd at the last picture.