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Gold Star Cookie Cutter Pumpkin

Even if you cannot spot the stars in the sky, this carved pumpkin will give your front stoop a similar starry effect. First, paint the pumpkin the colour of your choice and let it fully dry. Then, using a rubber mallet (or a hammer covered with a dishcloth), gently hammer a star-shaped cookie cutter into a real or faux pumpkin until it pushes completely through. Repeat all over the pumpkin until it achieves your desired look.

Twisting Vines Pumpkin

Here is a trick for nailing this glowing 3D effect: Use a lemon zester, clay loop, or linoleum cutter to carve into — but not through — the top layer of pumpkin skin.

Spots and Dots Pumpkin

It may look elaborate, but this polka-dot pattern is easy. Sketch your pattern with a marker, leaving enough space between dots so holes will not overlap. Punch it out with a power drill and various bits. Finish it off by placing LED string lights inside to bask in your handiwork's glow.

Friendly Ghost Pumpkin

Instead of going to the pumpkin patch, take a trip to the supermarket and stock up on butternut squash to make this friendly bunch. Depending on how much time you have, carve a single Casper, or give him a few friends to keep him company.

Skull tea light holders

This upside-down squash is easy and effective thread a wire through for hanging up and add face and a battery operated tea light.

Creepy Crawler Pumpkins

Light up the party with a spooky trail of spiders. Bent pipe cleaners to make hairy tarantula legs when attached to mini pumpkins

Candy Holder Pumpkin

Craft a unique — and useful — front porch display with a large real or faux pumpkin. First, mark a hole on the top half of the pumpkin and carefully cut along the line with a pumpkin carving set. If you opted for a fake pumpkin, sand down any rough edges. Paint the entire pumpkin with black chalk paint and let dry. Before the festivities begin, fill it with candy and write a message with chalk.

Pumpkin Flower Vase

After covering your pumpkin with metallic spray paint, carve a deep hole in the top, then slide in a plastic cup. Fill the cup with water