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I've been sharing pumpkin stencils for a long time. The first 1 had over 700 pumpkin carving patterns to download, and I've added more since then!

Here are the rest of my pumpkin stencils:

Finding Dory pumpkin carving patterns

13 Hamilton pumpkin etching patterns

Over 150 Disney pumpkin stencils

Each twelvemonth, I get at least a few emails asking me how to use pumpkin carving patterns to really carve the pumpkin.

I had the general idea downward, but it wasn't until I had a lesson from a master pumpkin carver that I actually understood how to use pumpkin carving patterns.

I was brought to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, to carve a Finding Dory pumpkin with Joseph Yakovetic. (Be sure to get your own Dory pumpkin stencils!)

Joseph Yakovetic is a master pumpkin carver who has partnered with Disney on a wide variety of projects, including a longtime date etching pumpkins for Disneyland.

When we entered the courtyard at Disney Studios it was clear that we were there to carve pumpkins. Every seat at the table was set like this:

And so Yakovetic started giving the states all sorts of tips for how to apply pumpkin etching patterns and how to carve a pumpkin.

Pumpkin carving tip: wipe down the pumpkin with an antibacterial wipe. This protects the pumpkin from rot-inducing bacteria.

Pumpkin carving tip: The stalk provides nutrients to the pumpkin even later information technology'due south cutting off the vine. If you cut around the stem to clean out the inside of the pumpkin, you're cutting off its nutrition. Cutting effectually the stem kills the pumpkin!

Pumpkin etching tip: Instead of cut effectually the stem, cutting a rectangular "door" in the back. This makes information technology piece of cake to clean out and makes information technology easy to light.

Cutting out of the back makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to light the pumpkin for a few reasons. Get-go, y'all tin position a pocket-sized bombardment-operated lite and then much easier than if you're trying to drop it in the meridian.

Second, yous tin can actually calorie-free your pumpkin with a bulb. Just cut a little notch out for the cord and utilise this corded low-cal socket. You lot'll get a much brighter low-cal, making your design smooth so much brighter!

Pumpkin etching tip: The primary pumpkin carver said the easiest way to clean out a pumpkin is to use an old CD.

He demonstrated how to employ the CD as a tool to scrape out the pumpkin. It took him all of 30 seconds to get the inside of the pumpkin totally clean!

When nosotros started carving our own pumpkins, I was surprised to larn that I wouldn't be scooping or cleaning it out at all. All the work I needed to exercise could be done without gutting it.

This was especially important because Disney shipped my pumpkin to my home. It could accept been easily crushed when shipping if the inside was hollow.

Pumpkin etching tip: If you need to send your pumpkin, do the etching start and clean out the inside when y'all arrive.

How to apply a pumpkin etching pattern

Yankovic then explained the best tools for using pumpkin carving patterns. Hint: they don't include a pumpkin etching kit!

The master pumpkin carver gave us each a lilliputian bundle with some tools. Our table was also fix with more items to share. Here'due south what had when we learned how to employ pumpkin carving patterns:

one of the pumpkin carving patterns of your choice
a small, pointed serrated knife
push pins
graphite transfer paper (we used this grey graphite paper but Yankovic said that white is clean and it works very well, too)
a sharpie
this Kemper #8R5 ribbon tool
a ballpoint pen
a Speedball linoleum cutter
a Princeton Art & Brush (PAB) #6 round paintbrush. Buy one for $6 or get a v-brush set up for $10.
Acrylic paints

Once yous have all your materials y'all're ready to go started using your pumpkin carving design.

How to use a pumpkin carving pattern

1. Use your serrated pocketknife to cut a rectangle in the back of your pumpkin, then scoop out the within with an old CD.

two. Place your pumpkin carving blueprint on elevation of your graphite transfer paper and pin it onto your pumpkin. I started with mine looking like this:

Just I added quite a few more pins as I worked through step #3.

3. Describe over the design with the ballpoint pen. You don't need to do any filling in now, but brand certain you become all the lines.

4. Remove the pattern and transfer newspaper. Go over all the lines with the Sharpie.

four. Fill up in all the black areas with your sharpie.

5. Use your acrylic paint and paintbrush to pigment the areas that you want painted. I actually used the Finding Dory plate and tablecloth as my guide for the sections to paint on my pumpkin.

6. Use the linoleum cutter to go effectually the exterior of the image, plus whatsoever other areas yous desire defined. It only takes a thin layer off the skin, but it'south enough to let low-cal shine through from inside the pumpkin.

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seven. Scoop out bigger areas of the pumpkin skin using the ribbon tool. This is skilful for areas that you want to appear vivid or white without cut a pigsty.

8. Use your serrated knife to cleave out the pieces of the pumpkin where you want holes.

This is what my pumpkin looked like when it was washed:

Thanks to Enza from EnzasBargains.com for the photo!

Check out the video for how to carve a Dory pumpkin directly from the master pumpkin carver:

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About Finding Dory

From the Academy Laurels®–winning creators of Disney•Pixar's "Finding Nemo" (Best Animated Feature, 2003) comes an ballsy undersea adventure filled with imagination, humor and heart.

When Dory, the forgetful blueish tang (Ellen DeGeneres), suddenly remembers she has a family unit who may be looking for her, she, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) accept off on a life-changing quest to find them … with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark.

Directed past Andrew Stanton and co-directed by Angus MacLane, the film is produced by Lindsey Collins and executive produced past John Lasseter. Victoria Strouse wrote the script with Stanton.

Veteran composer and longtime Stanton collaborator Thomas Newman created the picture show'southward music score and vocaliser-songwriter Sia performs the pic's cease-credit song, "Unforgettable."

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Disclosure: Disney, Curiosity, and Freeform flew me to LA and covered most expenses for this printing junket. All opinions are my own.