30+ Best Pumpkin Faces Ideas to Take Your Carving Game to the Next Level

This creative idea doubles as a fun game you can play with your kids!

Make the pumpkins: Start by cutting large holes in the bottom of two pumpkins; scoop out the pulp and seeds. Download and trace the face template on the pumpkins, then cut out the faces. Stack the pumpkins and use skewers to help hold the top pumpkin in place. To play, toss beanbags into mouths—10 points for bottom, 20 points for top.

This sweet face just requires a trip to the backyard to gather a few leaves and pine cones.

To make: Gather small- and medium-sized leaves, acorn caps, grasses, and pinecones from the yard. Glue small leaves on the front of a small oblong pumpkin, overlapping them slightly, to create feathers. Glue four larger leaves on either side, overlapping them, to create wings. Attach a piece of thin leather string with hot glue to a small acorn squash to create the outline of the face. Pull apart a pinecone and use the individual scales to create the nose, attaching them with hot glue. Attach acorn caps to create eyes and grass to create ears and whiskers.

This adorable Jack-o-lantern pumpkin face adds an extra seasonal touch to make it extra special!

Make the pumpkin: Gather your supplies. You'll need a medium sized orange pumpkin, a miniature witch hat, tacky adhesive, and a carving kit. First, cut a circular hole around the pumpkin stem and remove it. Set the stem aside and hollow out the insides of your pumpkin. Next, carve a classic pumpkin face that include eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Insert the stem back on top of the pumpkin. Add adhesive to the bottom of the miniature hat, place it over the stem, and firming secure it to the pumpkins head.

Keep those garden gnomes company with these warm and fuzzy pumpkin friends.

Make the pumpkin: Trace hat template on wool fabric, adjusting size as necessary; cut out. Use craft glue or iron-on fusible tape to glue straight edges together. Fill hat with batting to help it stand upright; set on pumpkin. Attach a small wood craft bead to a small pumpkin with hot-glue to create a nose. Attach strands of yarn with hot glue around nose to create beard; trim as necessary.

These mummies are just as cute as a button!

Make the pumpkin: Wrap a small white pumpkin with strips of gauze, holding strips in place where necessary with hot-glue. Attach two differently sized black buttons with hot-glue to create eyes. Tack down a length of thin black twine with staple-gun staples to create a mouth.

A little felt and a few buttons are all it takes to transform a plain ole' acorn squash into a friend moose!

Make the pumpkin: Cut out a piece of white felt, and hand-stitch a border using brown embroidery floss. Attach two small light brown felt circles to the white felt piece with hot-glue to create nostrils. Hot-glue white felt piece to lower portion of butternut squash. For each eye, sew a dark button to a slightly larger white felt circle (use white thread to mimic the pupil of the eye) and glue to squash as shown. Download our moose ear patterns. Pin patterns to brown felt, and cut out two of each template. Use brown embroidery floss to sew matching pieces together, leaving a small opening. Insert cotton stuffing and hand-stitch closed. Hot-glue ears to top of the squash.

Look to nature for many of the materials needed to craft this wise fella.

Make the pumpkin: Hot-glue two white (lumina) pumpkins together to create the head and body. For each eye, cut out a small brown felt circle, then glue a slightly smaller yellow button on top, followed by an even smaller brown button. Hot-glue eyes to top pumpkin. Create loops from a thin twig and tie in place with wax twine to create eye-glasses shape. Hot-glue fir sprigs to glasses to create eyebrows. Spray-paint two oak leaves and a baby pinecone a similar color to pumpkin. Hot-glue leaves to pumpkin to create wings and pinecone to create a nose. Make a bow tie from plaid ribbon. Hot-glue to pumpkin.

No carving necessary to create this sweet pumpkin face.

Make the pumpkin: Lightly draw a simple pumpkin face on a pumpkin. Use lengths of black rickrack to cover the drawing, attaching it with hot-glue. Attach small white buttons to the corner of each eye with hot-glue. Cut pumpkin-shaped leaves from green felt and lengths of green rickrack to create tendrils; attach at the base of the pumpkin stem with hot-glue.

Memorialize your family and pets on this frilly, doily laced pumpkin.

Make the pumpkin: Photograph your subject from the side. Scale photo as needed, then cut out profile. Trace and cut profile from black craft paper. Using Mod Podge, adhere cutout to a white paper circle cut to fit interior of a black doily. Secure unit to pumpkin. Glue trim to edge of white paper.

You'll love this adorable duo of feathered friends!

Make the Hen Pumpkin: Cut a hole in the bottom of a large pumpkin, and scoop out pulp and seeds. Trace the hen template. Use a knife to cut out the body and a pencil to lightly trace the comb. Paint comb with red acrylic paint. Tie together several strands of raffia and hot-glue in place to create the tail. Insert a piece of white chicken wire behind the hen's body, then adhere twigs with hot-glue to create legs and feet.

Make the Chick Pumpkin: Trace the chick template onto a smaller whole pumpkin. Use a potter's needle to indent the outline, then chisel out using a potter's ribbon tool. Insert a black pushpin for the eye; adhere twigs with hot-glue for the feet.

You don't need to be sly as a fox recreate this friendly fur critter.

Make the pumpkin: Using this image as a guide, outline the face silhouette with pencil first. For the pupils, hot-glue black and orange yarn in a spiral pattern directly onto the pumpkin. Hot-glue a continuous piece of white yarn in a teardop pattern until the space is fully filled. Outline the eyes with rust yarn, then add a black yarn mouth and pom-pom nose. For ears, glue felt on cover-weight paper backing. Cut into triangles, trim with rust yarn, and glue to the top of the pumpkin.

Is he friendly or is he not?!?! With rickrack spool bolts how could he be anything other than sweet and cuddly.

Make the pumpkin: Cut a length of extra-large black rickrack. Cut a piece of black felt the same length and attach it to the rickrack so that only the bottom “ruffles” are showing. Attach the top of a flat-shaped heirloom pumpkin for hair. Attach two small black buttons to the center of the pumpkin with hot-glue for eyes. Attach a length of thick black cording above the eyes with hot-glue for eyebrow. Attach lengths of medium-size black rickrack to pumpkin with hot-glue for scar and mouth. Wrap two wooden spools with green rickrack and attach to the bottom sides of pumpkin with hot-glue for bolts.

This adorable piglet is kind of a pig deal.

Make the pumpkin: Download and trace our ears and nose templates on pink felt, then cut out. For the inner ear pieces (they should be slightly smaller than the felt), cut from patterned pink craft paper. Use craft glue to attach the paper to the felt and hot-glue the ears and noses to the pumpkins. Next, paint two pumpkin seeds with black craft paint and hot-glue them for eyes for mama and small black buttons for mama’s nostrils and piglets’ eyes and nostrils. Finally, twist pink pipe cleaners in coils and hot-glue one to the back of each pumpkin as makeshift tails.

Moo-yah!

Make the pumpkin: Download our cow ear and nose templates and trace on brown leather, scaling up or down based on the size of your pumpkin; cut out. Download our forehead pattern and trace on a corn husk, scaling up or down as necessary; cut out. Hot-glue ears, nose, and forehead to the bottom of a pumpkin. For nostrils, paint two pumpkin seeds with black craft paint and attach with hot glue. Finally, paste black buttons for eyes and dried bunny tail grass tops for horns.

Every-bunny will love seeing this adorable decoration.

Make the pumpkin: Download our ears and top nose templates to trace on gray felt, scaling up or down based on the size of your pumpkin; cut out. Trace the separate nose "button" on pink felt and cut out, again sizing accordingly. Hot-glue the pink nose button on the center of a white pumpkin. Using craft glue, attach twigs from wheat stalks to the back of the gray nose top. Glue on top of the pink button, overlapping slightly. Outline the bottom of the nose with brown twine and attach with hot glue. Attach the ears and acorn tops for eyes with hot glue.

H00 could resist crafting this stacked owl?

Make the pumpkin: For the face, cut two circles (around the same circumference as a cupcake liner) on light brown paper and glue them to the bottom of two white liners. Cut out or draw two smaller black dots for the pupils. As for the lashes, cut a brown cupcake liner in half. Hot glue the eyes to the pumpkin.

For wings, cut a brown and a white liner in half and attach to the sides of bottom pumpkin. Cut a triangle beak and feet from black card stock and glue to the body.

No need to look any further than the produce section to create this band of merry Halloween revelers.

Get the tutorial at Woman's Day.

Thanks to yarn-wrapped tree branches, this woodland decoration looks just like the real deal.

Make the pumpkin: Use a plain white pumpkin (like Lumina) as the base. Assemble tree branches and tightly wrap assorted colors of yarn in color block patterns. Secure loose yarn ends with hot-glue. To attach the antlers, drill two holes into the upper third of the pumpkin, keeping the drill bit angled down so antlers stick up, not out. Attach button eyes, a triangle felt nose, and pinched felt triangle ears with hot-glue.

Here's the foolproof way to carve out ghoulish features: Tape transfer paper to a pumpkin and draw on your design. Then remove the paper and follow the outline.

Stack layers of a cut up pumpkin to create a mummy wrapped-like appearance. Beady bean eyes will send trick-or-treaters running in fear.

Make the Mummy Pumpkin: Cut off the top one quarter of the pumpkin and scoop out the seeds. Cut pumpkin horizontally all the way around, starting 1" to 2" below the opening. Repeat 4 to 6 times until you've carved the whole pumpkin into 1" to 2" circles all the way around (don't worry about making your cuts particularly straight). Separate the pieces. Keeping the top and bottom pieces the same, restack the others in a different order. Rotate the pieces until you get a shape you like, enlarging the carvings for eyes or mouth. Starting from the bottom, lift each level of pumpkin, insert 3 to 4 toothpicks onto the level below, then press down to secure in place. Repeat until entire pumpkin is held together. Place beans into eye holes, securing with half-toothpicks if necessary.