Easy Pumpkin Carvings for Beginners to Try – Pumpkins 2025

Everyone wants to get in on the Jack O Lantern act and now you can with my list of easy pumpkin carvings for beginners!

Some of these can be done in under 30 minutes making them suitable for those parents in a rush (let’s face it that’s all of us). Best of all these will look super cute sitting at your front door or in your windowsill!

Simple Pumpkin Carving Ideas

Here at Easy Crafts for Kids we absolutely love Halloween crafts especially anything to do with pumpkins. Every year I always spend lots of time with my children painting pumpkins as it is much safer than them using sharp carving tools. 

However this year despite me saying we are not doing any Jack O Lanterns my husband convinced me otherwise and obviously I duly obliged leaving him to help the kids!

We made 4 different Jack O Lanterns which were super duper easy and surprisingly quick. We made a pumpkin cat, owl pumpkin, ghost pumpkin and one featuring moon and stars! 

Next year we might try something more adventurous as long as it’s quick of course!!

Cool and Easy Pumpkin Carvings for Kids

Find some of my simple pumpkin carving ideas below. I love all of these but my favorite has to be the moon and stars pumpkin. 

Cat Pumpkin Pattern

My easy pumpkin carving cat was a massive hit last year. The only thing I did not like was the fact there was not much light from it as the holes were rather small. The biggest holes were the eyes and nose, while the whiskers and mouth were small. It was a very cute design though.

In future I would paint this black too, to make it look like the witches’ cat. 

Easy Pumpkin Carving Owl

Wow how cute was my owl; my daughter’s favorite animal! Of course owl crafts are hugely popular during Fall so it seemed like a natural choice. 

Cute Ghost Pumpkin Design

Hands up who wants to make a spooky ghost?! My Casper pumpkin design is lovable to say the least and very easy to recreate. 

Moon and Stars Pumpkin

An unique pumpkin carving pattern in the fact that it is not a scary face or an animal but rather some moon and stars!! It would double up as a cute nightlight, except for the fact that the pumpkin will be rotting in 2 weeks!

Cute Lababu (Lafufu) Pumpkin Carving

Every year I like to try an new pumpkin carving to make an unique Jack O Lantern and this year I decided to follow the hottest trend, the Labubu monster doll. My pumpkin face features the doll’s face and looks scaringly similar. 

Star Wars Rebel Alliance Pumpkin Carving

My son wanted a Darth Vader pumpkin but we were so short of time that we had to pick something else real quick. He decided to do a Star Wars pumpkin in the end but this time featuring one of the symbols, Rebel Alliance. 

We spent 5 minutes cleaning out the inside of the pumpkin and then left my husband to do the carving! I was so shocked that he managed to do this carving in under 15 minutes so this is a neat pumpkin carving idea for boys, if you have limited time. 

It was so easy to make without a template. We just searched for a picture of the symbol and carved from there. 

Don’t fancy these then why not try some of my non carving pumpkin ideas

If you want a quick pumpkin design and love Disney then try my Snow White pumpkin

Which of these do you think is the Easiest Pumpkin Carving Idea?

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