Halloween Time: Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns & Stencils

I have put together a List of 30 places online where you can find free pumpkin carving stencils and patterns.  Each link will take you straight to the pumpkin designs.  I have checked them out a head of time, and put a little bit of info about the stencils with each listing.  Happy Halloween Everyone!!!  Hope you find the perfect stencil for your pumpkin!

1.  Nick Jr.

All of your kids favorite characters from their favorite nick jr. tv shows. :-) very nice!

2.  ScaryProducts.com

Nice traditional halloween themed pumpkin stencils. All easy to moderate difficulty.

3.  Family.go.com

Very nice disney character stencils.  You will find easy to moderate difficulty.

4.  Pumpkin Glow

A few easy printable patterns, but a huge gallery of carved pumpkins for inspiration and ideas.  You can also buy some carving tools.

5.  WorldWildLife.org

if you love animals this one is all for you.  a dozen animal pumpkin stencils.

6.  Haunt World

Obama and McCane stencils along with a few traditional creepy halloween patterns.

7.  Gonewengland

You cannot preview these stencils from this page.  The page has many different free downloadable collections of patterns.  You have to download the files to view them.

8.  Family Crafts

You can preview these stencils.  It is a collection of very simple Face Patterns.   There are animals, clowns, monster, etc.

9.  Celebrating-Halloween

Some simple to advanced designs of all different themes.

10.  The Pumpkin Farm

A few easy stencils also some carving tips :-)

11.  Fantasy Pumpkins

Mostly all designs are very advanced.  A lot of very neat idea's if you want your pumpkin to stand out,  but you will have to put in the work.

12.  Stoney Kins

Most of these are very difficult or at least very time consuming.  If you want a pumpkin people will really appricate chck this out.

13.  DLTK - Holidays

A decent selection of easy to moderate design difficulties.

14.  Landscaping.about.com

Couldn't find a better candidate to be listed as site number 14.  Here you can find 14 free printable patterns.  

15.  Better Homes and Gardens

Not a pro?  Better homes has not only some free patterns, but also some free tips and guides to get you to become the pumpkin carving master.

16. Paper Pumpkins

Printable pumpkin carving patterns for kids.  Very basic, and many categories to choose from.

17.  Hersheys

Easy, intermediate, and advance difficulty you can select from.  There advanced stencils are time consuming, but as far as difficulty to other stencils I have found all of the stencils are easy to moderate on this site.

18.  Martha Stewart

Pumpkin carving templates, and other pumpkin craft ideas for adults and kids.

19.  RD.com

13 cute templates face, stars, and etc.  All are very easy.

20.  Spook Master

A couple different pattern printouts.  They also have some halloween games, recipes, and other fun stuff.

21.  KOA

Small selection, but hey still some free stencils.  Mainly all clipart images, so some of them you may actually have to edit.  Mostly camp scene designs. 

22.  Fun School

A few simple classic halloween pumpkin stencils. 

23.  DotComWomen

A dozen or two easy to adanced patterns.

24.  Pumpkin Lady

Some free patterns, as well as, some you can buy.

25.  CBC

A couple funny and different easy patterns.

26.  Star Wars

All Star Wars themed pumpkin designs.

27.  Think Geek

Some good designs, others will need some editing.  Most of theses designs are just clipart images.

28.  Parenting

19 cute traditional halloween designs.  Easy to moderate stencils.

29.  Pumpkin Masters

Only a few patterns, but very nice easy ones.  There is some creepy and cute designs.

30.  Pumpkin Glow

Pumpkin stencils that have absolutely nothing to do with halloween.