35 Places to Find Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns

About.com Family Craft has 13 free pumpkin carving patterns that will look great on your pumpkin this year. Whether you're looking for spooky, silly or happy, they've got it all.

You can either save these pumpkin carving templates and open them in your graphics software or open them as a PDF file and print them with Adobe Reader.

There are a ton of free pumpkin carving patterns at Celebrating Halloween! The pumpkin carving stencils and templates here include images of bats, cats, ghosts, spiders, skeletons and more.

Don't miss the word and text pumpkin carving patterns near the bottom of the page. They've got patterns so you can spell out your favorite Halloween catch phrase - right on your pumpkin!

Stoneykins has a whooping 7 pages of pumpkin carving patterns that are completely free. You'll find off-the-wall images like fish, logos, cartoon characters, TV icons and much, much more here.

Be sure to click on the pumpkin carving pattern you want to use to make it full size before printing.

DLTK has a nice collection of free pumpkin carving patterns that include bats, banshees, cats, ghosts, haunted houses, owls, pirates, gravestones, scary faces, skulls, spiders and spooky phrases just to name a few.

The instructions at the top of the page for using the patterns is a really helpful addition that most sites that have free pumpkin carving patterns don't offer.

Better Homes and Gardens has an impressive group of Halloween pumpkin carving stencils. Besides pumpkin carving stencils, they have a lot of tips on how to carve a pumpkin and how to decorate with pumpkins.

You'll love the detailed instructions and pictures that go with the free pumpkin carving patterns here at Better Homes and Gardens.

The printable Halloween carving pumpkin stencils at ScrissorCraft.com are more simple, bold designs that would be good for a beginner carver or to tackle with children.

The free pumpkin carving patterns here are broken down into categories like Happy Faces, Animals, Birds, Bugs, ABC's, Cultural, Fish, Ghouls and Monsters, Mad Faces, Mean Faces, Sad Faces, Scared Faces, Symbolic, Numbers, Worried Faces, Alien Faces, Dragons, Goofy Faces, Love Faces, Island Tikis and Totem Poles.

The pumpkin stencils at Hershey's are organized into three different skill levels - easy, intermediate and advanced. Once you've decided what level you want to tackle, you can pick your design.

To print the pumpkin stencils simply click on the one you want to print.

Martha Stewart has a nice collection of almost 50 free pumpkin carving patterns and templates. Use the orange arrows to scroll through the patterns until you find one you'd like to use and then click on the link. Besides the free pumpkin carving pattern, you can click on How to Make to see detailed instructions on how to carve and put together the pumpkin.

The pumpkin carving patterns here are in PDF files so you'll need Adobe Reader to download and print them.

Browse your way through this slide show of free printable pumpkin carving stencils at Reader's Digest.

If you find a pumpkin stencil you'd like to download, click on the download link under the slide numbers. You'll need Adobe Reader to download the stencils.

Kim Knox Beckius, your About.com Guide to New England Travel has a very nice little collection of free pumpkin patterns.

For each pumpkin pattern you can see a photo of a pumpkin carved with the pattern in both the day and the night.