50 Times People Took Halloween Pumpkin Carving To A Whole New Level And Created These Masterpieces (New Pics)

If you take a step back, it might seem a bit strange that every fall, thousands, if not millions of innocent pumpkins are carved up, just to give a room a spooky look. But there is no denying that a creatively carved pumpkin does add that little bit of spice to any Halloween decor. And some people really do take their decorations to the next level.So people from all over the internet share the most interesting, cool, and spookiest pumpkins they have carved, designed, and decorated in the spirit of Halloween. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite creations, and be sure to comment your thoughts and ideas below.This post may includeaffiliate links.

So people from all over the internet share the most interesting, cool, and spookiest pumpkins they have carved, designed, and decorated in the spirit of Halloween. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite creations, and be sure to comment your thoughts and ideas below.

This post may includeaffiliate links.

This Year’s Pumpkin Worked Out

Pumpkin Carving Of Carving A Pumpkin

My Pumpkin This Year

After leading a person into a marsh or other remote, wild area, it disappears, leaving them lost. As per usual in European folklore, spirits, and creatures of the night are seldom around to help us humans. While the jack-o’-lantern isn’t exactly the same thing, its lights are supposed to represent these spirits.

Finished My Pumpkinpede

I then let the squirrels go at it for two days. The result is something truly disturbing.

Instead Of Carving The Jack-O'-Lantern Myself This Year, I Poked A Bunch Of Small Holes In A Pumpkin And Stuffed The Holes With Peanut Butter

A Very Easy Pumpkin With A Truly Haunting Result

While the pumpkin is currently the undisputed king of carved vegetables, in the past it was common to also use turnips and even rutabaga to make faces. These faces and “lanterns” were used toward off evil spiritsat the spooky time of year, although in some cases they would also represent said spirits, so it seems that different people had different relationships with the spirits.

Finished The Pumpkin Carving

My Pumpkin Carving For This Year

Carved By My Incredibly Talented Husband. Yes, It’s A Real Pumpkin. He Used Watered-Down Acrylics To Create The Aged Wood Texture

While the tradition originated in the British Isles, the actual pumpkin is a vegetable from the Americas. So it’s not surprising that the first mentions of a carved pumpkin in North America go all the way back to 1837. However, at the time, it was more acelebration of the harvestthan anything to do with Halloween or spirits, evil and benign.

Second time ever carving a pumpkin and took 20+ hours so please be gentle with the critique.

My Attempt At A Mera Mera No Mi Pumpkin

My Boss Told Me My Pumpkin Was “Too Basic” To Be Entered Into Our Work’s Pumpkin Carving Contest

I Carved A Pumpkin Beholder

It would only be a few decades later when Americans would start to associate the carved and candle’d pumpkin with Halloween. Given that Halloween and the harvest aren’t that far apart, the connection seems pretty easy to make. After all, you can’t have an abundance of pumpkins to carve without a harvest.

Poison Apple Pumpkin

Tried Something Different During Pumpkin Carving This Year. Pretty Stoked With The Result

Jacked-O'-Lantern

A Brigantine-Style Boat That’s Brimming With A Treasure Haul Of Pearly White Gumballs And Candy Gold Doubloons. No Tricks, All The Treats

We carve/decorate a giant pumpkin for Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta every year for my company’s Peapod Jewelry. This was our entry for 2022.

Giant Pumpkin Geode

Went LOTR for my second pumpkin of the year - Gandalf and the Balrog of Morgoth! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!Stencil creation: ~1 hourStencil transfer/prep: ~1.5 hoursCarving: ~6 hours

My Gandalf & The Balrog Pumpkin

Certain North American towns take their pumpkin carving very, very seriously. For example, the inhabitants of Keene in New Hampshire worked together to carve, light up, and displaya staggering 30,581 pumpkinsin 2013, setting a new world record. While the individual quality of the pumpkins is questionable, there is no denying that quantity has a quality of its own.

I Won The Work Contest With This Guy

My Kid Is Obsessed With Sea Life. This May Be The Coolest Pumpkin I’ve Ever Carved

Stunning Tiger Carving

The art of pumpkin carving has expanded alongside technology. While in the past, people would be limited to candles or perhaps lanterns, access to better, more consistent lights now allow people to work with light like never before. At the same time, more accessible tools allow people to make more intricate carvings.

A Lil Over The Garden Wall Inspired Carve On 6.5” Michaels Foam Pumpkin. It’s A Pumpkinception

Kitty Cat Jack-O'-Lantern

Here’s A Little Beetlejuice I Carved Recently On A 6.5" Foam Pumpkin

Add in paint, glitter, stencils, and other extras and a committed carver can turn a pumpkin into almost anything. As you can see in this list, some pumpkins, for better or worse, have strayed so far from their original form that they more resemble sculptures than anything else.

I Know Halloween Is Over But My Pumpkin Won 3rd Place In A Contest Tonight And I’m Super Stoked

I Was Proud Of My Maleficent Pumpkin Carving

Some Of The Floors Had A Pumpkin Carving Contest

It’s arguable that this has created a sort of pumpkin art escalation, as creatives vie with each other to see who is going to do something different with a pumpkin. Some don’t even bother with lights and instead treat the outer skin of the pumpkin as a sort of canvas, a sentence that out of context sounds as spooky as Halloween itself.

This Is The Wall Pumpkin

1st Butternut Squash Carving

Girlfriend’s And My Pumpkins This Year

Regardless, every fall, we are treated to a bountiful harvest of cool and creative pumpkin art. So if you feel like seeing more,Bored Pandahas got you covered. Check out our articles onexpert-level pumpkin carvingand our list from 2021 with some of the most eye-catchingpumpkin-based artout there.

First Pumpkin Carving Of The Season