Haunted House Pumpkin Carving Ideas
19 carving ideas to explore
A haunted house turns one pumpkin into a whole scene. The house stays solid and the windows do the glowing, which makes these easier than they look.
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Haunted house styles to try
A haunted house turns one pumpkin into a whole scene. The house stays solid and the windows do the glowing, which makes these easier than they look.
Cottage and storybook house
A smaller, cozier house: a cottage with a curling chimney or a storybook shape with a round door. These are simpler outlines with three or four windows, which makes them the right first haunted house.
4 designs in the gallery
Glowing house in the moon
A house silhouette in front of a full moon. Cut the moon through, leave the house as solid pumpkin across its lower half, and cut the windows through inside the house so they glow. A bare tree beside the house is a scraped line with a few branches.
7 designs in the gallery
Crooked mansion
A tall Victorian house with a leaning tower, gables and a dozen windows. Draw the house with every wall slightly off vertical, then cut only the windows and the door through. Scrape the siding in horizontal strokes so the walls glow faintly and the windows glow bright.
8 designs in the gallery
Haunted House stencils to download
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Haunted House pumpkin carving FAQ
- What is the easiest haunted house pumpkin to carve?
- A simple house outline in front of a moon. Cut the moon through as a circle, leave a house shape solid across the bottom of it, and cut three or four windows and a door through the house. Six cuts and it reads as a haunted scene.
- How do I make the windows glow while the house stays dark?
- Cut the windows all the way through and leave the walls as unscraped skin. If you want the walls to show a little, scrape them lightly in horizontal strokes for clapboard, which glows faint orange against the bright windows.
- How do I carve a crooked haunted house?
- Draw every wall and roofline a few degrees off true, and let the tower lean. Crooked lines are easier to cut than straight ones, and they are what makes a house look haunted.
- What light works for a haunted house pumpkin?
- Warm yellow, so the windows look lit from inside. A flickering LED candle is ideal here because a flicker in a window reads as someone moving inside.
- Are the haunted house 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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