Dinosaur Pumpkin Carving Ideas
60 carving ideas to explore
Every dinosaur on this page is a silhouette with a signature shape: a big jaw, a long neck, a row of plates or three horns. Pick the shape your kid asks for.
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Dinosaur styles to try
Every dinosaur on this page is a silhouette with a signature shape: a big jaw, a long neck, a row of plates or three horns. Pick the shape your kid asks for.
T-Rex
A roaring head in profile with a mouth full of teeth, or a full standing body with tiny arms. Cut the open jaw through and leave the teeth as pointed islands. The eye is a small cut, and the rest of the body can be scraped for a glowing hide.
18 designs in the gallery
Long-neck
A brachiosaurus or sauropod with a neck stretching up the pumpkin. The neck is a long solid curve, so cut the background around it instead of the neck itself, or scrape the whole body. A tall pumpkin gives the neck room.
9 designs in the gallery
Stegosaurus and triceratops
Plated backs and horned frills. The stegosaurus plates are a row of triangles along the top edge, and the triceratops frill is a big scalloped shield behind the head. Both are strong shapes that cut through well.
16 designs in the gallery
Raptors and pterodactyls
Running raptors with a curved claw, and pterodactyls with wings spread. Raptors are a running silhouette, so cut the whole shape through. Pterodactyls carve like bats: cut the wings through and leave the wing bones as solid lines.
12 designs in the gallery
Friendly dinosaurs and scenes
Cute round dinosaurs, a dinosaur with eggs, a jungle trio. These are cartoon faces and multi-dinosaur scenes. Space the figures an inch apart, cut the eyes and mouths through, and scrape the bodies so the whole scene glows.
5 designs in the gallery
Dinosaur stencils to download
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Dinosaur pumpkin carving FAQ
- What is the easiest dinosaur pumpkin to carve?
- A T-Rex head in profile with an open jaw. The outline is simple, the jaw is one big opening, and the teeth are triangles left uncut along its edge. A long-neck silhouette is just as easy if you cut the background instead of the dinosaur.
- How do I carve dinosaur teeth?
- Cut the mouth as one opening and leave the teeth as pointed islands of pumpkin along the top and bottom edges. Keep each tooth a quarter inch wide at the base. Uneven teeth look more like a real jaw than a perfect row.
- How do I carve stegosaurus plates?
- Draw a row of triangles or rounded plates along the dinosaur's back and cut each one through as its own opening, with a strip of pumpkin between them. If the dinosaur is scraped rather than cut, the plates become the brightest part of the design.
- Can kids help carve a dinosaur pumpkin?
- Yes. Have an adult cut the outline and the jaw, and let kids do the scraping: the hide texture, spots and stripes are all done with a spoon or a scraping tool and there is no knife involved.
- Are the dinosaur pumpkin stencils free?
- Yes. Enter your email on a linked stencil page to unlock its free printable PDF. Print on letter or A4 paper and adjust the scale to your pumpkin. Related stencils may differ from the inspiration images in this gallery.
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