How to Carve Halloween Pumpkins

How to make/carve pumpkin ideas ready for Halloween. This video shows you five great pumpkin related tips for you to try this Halloween. Carve your Jack-o'-lantern to another level!

Includes:

How to make pumpkin teeth and pumpkin fangs
Carving out eyes
A pumpkin mirror ball disco lantern
Using a pumpkin stem for a nose
Table tennis ping pong ball pumpkins, which light up!

Simple to follow video tutorial with step by step guide.

Music: Look Busy - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Closed Caption:

Today I'm going to show you some of my favorite Halloween Pumpkin tips.
And we're going to start with teeth or fangs.
So take your pumpkin, and draw on a design.
Hollow it out and carve out the face.
You can see I've cut out a nice big hole for the mouth.
Next we're going to take the off cut from the mouth
and using a sharp knife, carefully cut out fangs, like this.
Next we need to take our fangs, and
push a cocktail stick in the end.
Snap the end off so its a bit shorter, and
we should have something which looks like this.
And finally start arranging the fangs in the mouth.
Pretty cool eh!
A slightly different way to do teeth is cut them
into the pumpkin as you're carving out the face.
Then using a sharp knife, carefully peel underneath the skin and peel it off.
Go around all the teeth and you should have something which looks like this..
Next we're going to look at using the pumpkins stem for a nose.
So take your pumpkin, turn it on its side, and draw on a face.
Then turn your pumpkin around, and cut open a lid at the back.
Hollow it out, and then we can start to carve the face.
For this one we're going to cut the skin
around the eyes, and carefully peel it off.
It should look like this.
Then cut out the mouth, and using the same technique,
peel off the skin in front of the teeth.
Next we're going to carve out each tooth, until
you have something which looks like this.
Then using some black acrylic paint, we're going to paint in the eyes.
Good looking fella isn't he!
Now for something a little different.
Take a pumpkin, cut off the top and hollow it out.
Then using a hand drill, we're going to drill a series
of holes, in no particular pattern, around the entire pumpkin.
Don't forget to do the lid.
Clean it up and it should look like this.
Next take a piece of wire, this was an old coat hanger
and hook it into one of the holes in the pumpkin.
Loop it around to the other side, and
thread it through a hole opposite.
Take the lid off and make sure the wire is
bent around so the pumpkin won't fall off.
We now have a hanging pumpkin lantern!
Put some candles inside, dim the lights, and you've
got your very own pumpkin mirror ball!
And finally take an orange ping pong ball, and using a
black or red marker pen, draw on a pumpkin face
Then use a pencil to draw lines all the way around
the ball to give it a pumpkin effect.
Then use a pencil to draw lines all the way around the
ball to give it a pumpkin effect, like this
Now we're going to make it light up using an LED keyring.
First open up the key ring, and take out the LED and batteries.
Then tape the LED to the batteries like this
and bend the LED so it's upright.
Next using a screwdriver, we're going to carefully poke a
hole into the bottom of the ping pong ball.
And finally, sit the ball onto the LED.
Dim the lights and we can have our
own little army of Ping Pong Pumpkins!
You don't need to use a knife, and it's
a great one to do with children.
I hope you've enjoyed watching this video, if you'd like to
see how to make a flaming or smoking pumpkin
click on the links on the right hand side, or
take a look at my YouTube channel page.
Be careful, stay safe and happy Halloween everyone!