When the autumn season arrives, families everywhere start to look for fun fall activities to do with the family. One of the best family fun activities to enjoy during the autumn season is pumpkin carving. Being able to carve pumpkins into your Halloween creatures such as a bat, a ghost or even a gravestone is one of the best ways to enjoy quality family time together. Today I would like to share 9 pumpkin carving templates for kids after some tips for pumpkin carving with kids. I hope you can have fun with them while carving the pumpkins.
Tips for pumpkin carving with kids
As with any activity that involves sharp objects, it’s best that pumpkin carving is done with adult supervision. You can purchase kid-themed pumpkin carving knives, but supervision is always best suited when enjoying this family fun activity together. If you’re thinking about using KiddyCharts free pumpkin carving printable, then you’ll want to know a few tips for pumpkin carving with kids.
Pick the right pumpkin
The best way to get good results with our free pumpkin carving printable is to pick the right pumpkin. A smooth, light-weight pumpkin will work best to use our pumpkin carving designs.
Use an easy design
KiddyCharts knows we’re not all born as artists, that’s why these free pumpkin carving templates are easy enough for both beginners and advanced pumpkin carving families to use.
Go slow
No matter how many years you’ve been carving pumpkins with kids, it’s always best to take your time with slow, smooth, and steady movements to carve our template just perfect on your pumpkin.
Skip the real candles
Use battery-operated LED lights instead of traditional tea light candles inside your carved pumpkin. This will reduce the fire risk and give a safe option for your kids to turn on the pumpkin when sunset arrives.
Using our free pumpkin carving printable
Now that you have some safety tips for carving with kids, feel free to download our free pumpkin carving printable. This template provides you with everything you need to carve a simple, yet beautiful pumpkin this autumn season.
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I hope you enjoy the pumpkin carving templates and have fun with your children. Are you looking for more Halloween resources? We have some great ones you need to check out:
- Bingo is an old game that will make everyone excited. We have free Halloween bingo cards to amuse you around the Halloween event,
- Halloween is closely related to the sweets. Here we provide perfect FREE halloween lollipop covers. I am pretty sure that kids will love and feel surprised when they get these,
- Use our Halloween trick or treat boxes: Free A3 or A4 printables to pack sweets,
- These free Halloween photo props or Halloween party decorations will be cool to use in Halloween events,
- Do you need some displays around the your parties? Here are printable Halloween quotes posters too,
- Have fun with kids to create the Halloween paper plate craft, and finally
- Check out these 25 free spooky Halloween printables for the kids to give you even more inspiration.
There are several Halloween resources out there you can pop up after you finish with what we have:
- For your younger learners, Active Littles have Halloween noodles sensory activity bin,
- Check out East TN Family Fun collections of 25 + unique and fantastic Halloween crafts, and
- No Time for Flashcards has great quick and easy Halloween maths game as well.
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Helen
Can’t wait for Halloween! I’m looking forward to some arts and crafts to get more creative (and scary) for this time of the year
The templates are amazing, thanks for providing them for free. I can’t believe Halloween is almost here, feels like yesterday. 2019 is passing way too fast.
Thanks for the awesome templates! We love using templates when we carve, its so helpful!
Halloween is my favourite holiday! I love carving pumpkins and these are awesome templates!!
Just what I was looking for! Can’t wait to try these with my little cousins!
Those templates are awesome. Thanks for them! I think we are going to go with the Jolly Roger because we love Pirates!
This is my favorite time of year. These are some really fun activities for the kids. I will be doing this with my son.
Thanks for sharing these templates. I will take print out for the same and will show them to my kids
I loved the templates. Will show them to my son. My neighbors have a cute daughter will show her too.
These templates are so cute. Kids will love those for sure. What a nice find and just to the right season.
These are some pretty great templates. I will have to bookmark this and show this to my daughter so see which one she might want to try. We love Halloween time.
What a cutie curving template I’m sure my nephew would love to make this for Halloween.
We don’t have fall season where I live but I’m so excited to visit Seoul this November and experience autumn season for the first time
Carving pumpkins is such a fun activity. And these templates are great for children. Thanks for them and the extra Halloween resources.
Those are such cute templates! I think my kids only carved a pumpkin once — they really liked the trick-or-treat part of Halloween the most. I wish we had had these template — maybe it might have piqued their interest more!
Halloween season seems like it was just yesterday. Last year I freehanded the carvings, but I definitely want to try to use templates this year. Thanks for these! (reciprocated by Natasha Romero-Salas)
Is that time of the year already! Wow, when did the year pass by? Your templates are so cute! It is so much easier to carve a pumpkin using a template then do it free handed.