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Coiled Snake Pumpkin Stencil pumpkin carving stencil
Hard

Coiled Snake Pumpkin Stencil

A coiled snake in an S-curve fills this hard pumpkin stencil, its body broken into roughly twenty irregularly shaped scale-pattern segments separated by thin cut lines, with a small triangular head visible at the upper left and the tail tapering to a narrow point at the bottom. When lit, the gaps between scale segments glow white-hot against the orange pumpkin bridges, making the snake's banded pattern pop. Start cutting at the tail tip, where the segments are smallest and most fragile, then work up the body toward the larger mid-coil pieces.

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Medusa Pumpkin Stencil pumpkin carving stencil
Expert

Medusa Pumpkin Stencil

Medusa's face stares out from this expert pumpkin stencil, her features rendered as thin-cut channels forming almond-shaped eyes, a small nose, and full lips against a solid oval face. The hair is replaced by dozens of writhing snake bodies, each carved as an interlocking mass of curved shapes with heads visible at the perimeter, open mouths and coiling bodies creating a dense web of negative space around the face. When lit, the snake-hair region glows with a complex, shifting pattern while the face remains a composed solid island. Work the snake-hair sections in quadrants, finishing each area before moving to the next, so no large unsupported skin islands shift mid-carve.

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S-Curve Snake pumpkin carving stencil
Easy

S-Curve Snake

A thick snake winds through a bold S curve, its tapered head at the top and tail flicking out at the base, all carved as a single flowing opening. The whole serpent shape is cut through, so one continuous ribbon of light snakes across the pumpkin after dark. Because it is a single aperture with no fragile bridges, this easy design just needs slow steady knife work around the curves.

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Snake with Forked Tongue pumpkin carving stencil
Hard

Snake with Forked Tongue

A serpent winds across the pumpkin in three graceful S-curves, its head raised with a forked tongue flicking out and its whole body filled with a diamond scale pattern. The design is continuous-wall shading, so the snake is shaved into the skin at varied depths with no pierced holes. Rated hard because of the scales: peel the full body smooth first, then press in the scale texture row by row with a small gouge.

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