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As I’ve always said I’m not a very crafty person. When it comes to fall activities I’d far rather focus on the eating: candy/caramel apples, apple pie, pumpkin pie, apple cider, and more. Give me the guts left over from a pumpkin carving session, I’ll roast up the seeds and put them in cranberry sauce, or apply the pumpkin innards to a pie or a chocolate chip pumpkin cake.
For the more artistic types, however, or at least for those who enjoy crafts more than I do, this month/season gives the once-a-year opportunity for one unique craft: pumpkin carving. Those who practice it every year might soon get bored of all the traditional chunky smiling toothed faces and begin looking for different visages to carve into their giant orange squashes.
If any of you described above are Disney fans, then this is the blog for you. The most artistic among you might not even need what I’m about to offer, able to carve your pumpkin without any help. The rest of us, however, sometimes appreciate some training wheels when we’re trying to do anything fancier than the basics with our pumpkin.
The Disney Blog has rounded up the plethora of Disney pumpkin carving patterns and stencils available on the internet, making one big post for Disney-loving pumpkin-carving enthusiasts. Amazon.com has a couple carving pattern kits featuring Disney characters that appear to be sold by smaller unrelated companies.
There’s a set, of course, for the Disney princesses, and a Disney Fairies-themed kit. It appears a bit different than the other, in that in addition to providing patterns for the fairies the kit also comes with carving tools like a punch and a scoop. The princess set didn’t appear to have this, merely being a book containing various carving patterns.
Of course, the first destination for any craft-loving Disney fan ought to be the Disney Family website, and for pumpkin carvers it doesn’t disappoint. Pumpkin carving stencils have their own section on the site, with other subsections of course leading to all of the specific stencils, organized by movie/characters.
Find patterns for classic characters like Mickey and Minnie, along with dressed-for-the-occasion Vampire Goofy and Devil Donald. Carve the faces of the Muppets, Winnie the Pooh & friends, Monster’s Inc. characters, Tinker Bell, and more, into your pumpkin. Rarer patterns are also offered, like Dragon Maleficent or Witchy Stitch.
The top pattern on the site is the one for me. I always said if I’d attempt to carve a pumpkin again this is the design for which I’d go, and it will be very useful to follow a pattern instead of trying to work from scratch. Carve the spooky and seasonally-appropriate face of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, onto your prized Halloween creation. The picture accompanying the pattern shows an orange pumpkin, but I want to carve Jack’s face into a white pumpkin so that it looks even more like the main character from my favorite Halloween (and Christmas) movie.
Of course in addition to pumpkin carving Disney Family has many other Halloween craft options, like printables, costumes, and recipes. Check the website to see all that’s available.
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