Carving a pumpkin into a great looking Jack-o-lantern, with professional results, should start with a good template or pattern say experts. Fortunately, around Halloween, the internet is filled with free pumpkin carving patterns, stencils and templates, as well as great pumpkin carving “how-to” tips and instructions.
In fact, during the final days leading up to Halloween, the online searches for everything related to carving a jack-o-lantern, including the pumpkin templates, stencils and patterns, will typically rank among the highest volume searches in directories like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Finding the pumpkin template or pattern in a style right for you should be relatively easy, given the wide variety of stencils you will see online. Everything from traditional pumpkin faces, to something funny, or a template for a really spooky jack-o-lantern.
The great part about downloading a free pumpkin template or pattern online is that it can be scaled to the right size, to match your pumpkin, before you print it and use it as a guide to carve your pumpkin into the perfect jack-o-lantern for Halloween.
When you are carving your pumpkin, remember to keep the seeds. As you can read about in some of our earlier articles, roasted or toasted pumpkin seed are both an incredibly healthy and tasty snack. As we explained in the other articles, the recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds is also very easy.