30 Cool & Easy Pumpkin Carving Ideas To Steal This Year

Struggling to come up with some easy pumpkin carving ideas for Halloween? We’re here to help!

Decorate your porch or home with super easy pumpking carving ideas that won’t require hours of work and super advanced DIY skills.

Crafting your Halloween pumpkins should be first and foremost a fun activity for the whole family, and not a source of stress and frustration. When you’re choosing what to do with your pumpkins this year, try to involved the whole family and pick some ideas together.

If you plan to display more pumpkins for example on your porch, having a unifying theme to the design will make the whole display look more cohesive. You can for example choose to go for bats instead of the traditional scary faces, or adopt a spider theme which can then continue inside the house too.

Don’t be scared to experiment and add a bit of color too – you can paint your pumpkins white or black before you start carving, to create something more unique and fitting with the rest of your decor.

Below are some of the most popular themes to follow this year, and our roundup of the 30 best ideas on what do carve into your pumpkins! Enjoy!

Pumpkin Carving Trends for This Year

If you’re looking for easy to do and cool looking pumpkin carving ideas, the trends are quite simple and follow a predictable path:

scary carved faces in all possible facial expressions – if you’re not confident in your carving skills you can help yourself with some stencils you can buy online or download for free
Halloween bats are also popular to include in your pumpkin carving
drilled hole pumpkins are a super easy and fun project that also serves as a lantern, so not just pretty but also practical
neutral elements such as leaves will allow you to keep your pumpkins beyond the Halloween season
creative pumpkin carvings including pumpkin prison and others – check our selection below