Emoji Pumpkin Carving Ideas
45 carving ideas to explore
An emoji is already a circle with a face, which is what a pumpkin is. Most of these carve in under half an hour.
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Emoji styles to try
An emoji is already a circle with a face, which is what a pumpkin is. Most of these carve in under half an hour.
Heart-eyes and star-eyes
Two hearts or two stars for eyes above a big smile. Cut the hearts or stars through as the largest shapes, then the mouth. Because the eyes are big simple symbols, this is one of the easiest faces here and one of the brightest.
11 designs in the gallery
Hands and gestures
Thumbs up, thumbs down, OK hand, peace sign, flexed biceps, raised hands. A hand is one outline with the gaps between fingers cut as slits, so it is more forgiving than it looks. Keep the fingers at least half an inch wide.
12 designs in the gallery
Laughing and winking
Crying-laughing with tears, a wink with a tongue out, a smirk. The closed eye is a curved slit, the open eye a circle, and the tongue an island left inside the mouth opening. Cut the mouth first so you can see how much room the tongue has.
14 designs in the gallery
Shocked, angry and gross
Screaming face, wide-eyed flushed face, angry horned devil, queasy slime, the poop emoji. These trade on exaggeration: make the eyes huge or tiny, the mouth a giant O or a flat line, and scrape sweat drops or slime drips down the cheek.
8 designs in the gallery
Emoji stencils to download
Print, trace, carve. Every PDF is free and sized for 8.5×11.
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Emoji pumpkin carving FAQ
- What is the easiest emoji to carve on a pumpkin?
- Heart-eyes. Two hearts and a wide smile, all cut through, and you are done. The smiley face is just as easy but heart-eyes gets a bigger reaction from the street.
- How do I make an emoji face look like the emoji and not just a jack-o'-lantern?
- Copy the emoji's proportions exactly: the eyes sit high and close together, the mouth is wide and low, and there is no nose. Keep the cuts clean and rounded rather than jagged. The clean geometry is what makes it read as an emoji.
- How do I carve the tongue on a winking emoji?
- Cut the mouth as an opening and leave the tongue as an island attached to the bottom lip. Keep the join at least an inch wide. If you want it to glow, scrape the tongue instead of leaving it as skin.
- How do I carve the poop emoji on a pumpkin?
- Cut the swirl as one continuous curved slit from the bottom up, then two round eyes and a smile inside the swirl. It is a small design, so center it on the flattest side of the pumpkin.
- Are the emoji 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.
How funny stacks up
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