Whether you want fun or frightful faces greeting trick-or-treaters, we have a free downloadable stencil you’ll love.

Check out our Halloweenpumpkin stencilsfor the best funny to scary faces for your front porch.

Use our downloadable jack-o'-lantern face templates for carving jack-o'-lanterns.

silly smiling face carved into pumpkin

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Whichever you choose, every printable is free and ready for you to get started carving.

Frankenstein’s Monster

Let Halloween’s most famous monster take center stage on your jack-o'-lantern.

This not-so-scary pumpkin stencil gives Frankenstein a more friendly persona with a goofy wide smile.

Fall décor with carved Frankenstein pumpkin

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Displaying your carved pumpkin outside?

Get our must-havetips for making your pumpkins last longer.

Candy Monster Face

Paul Brissman

Use this grinning jack-o'-lantern face as your candy bowl this Halloween.

Carved pumpkin with candy

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double-check to completely remove all of the pumpkin insides before filling it with your favorite treats.

Set outside fortrick-or-treaters, or place inside your home to snack on the candy yourself.

Jumbled Face

A goofy grin makes this jack-o'-lantern face template a real hoot.

geometric eyes nose and face carved in pumpkin

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This funny pumpkin-carving idea will stand out in a field of scary pumpkins.

Skull Pumpkin Face

This pumpkin stencil is spooky without being scary.

Carve the features of the skull completely, then etch the outer circle in the pumpkin’s skin.

Pumpkin carved with skull and snake

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Place afake snakein the skull for a creepy effect.

Laughing Face

Use one of our jack-o'-lantern face templates to create this laughing fellow.

He’ll make a delightful addition to yourpumpkin display.

silly smiling face carved into pumpkin

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Finish the look with small decorative pumpkins and a fewfall leaves.

Sugar Skull

Celebrate theDay of the Deadwith a sugar skull Halloween pumpkin face stencil.

Get the look bydrilling small holesand using a scraping tool to carve decorative areas.

carved witch stencil

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You’ll only need to remove the outer layer of pumpkin skin to get the etched look.

Skull-and-Crossbones

This free jack-o'-lantern face template includes a scary symbol transforming a pumpkin into abone-chilling Halloween display.

Scraping a gouge across the pumpkin flesh creates a scratchy texture in the skull.

Pumpkins with faces and hair

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Undercover Jack-O'-Lantern

You won’t find any cooler jack-o'-lantern face template than this sunglass-sporting pumpkin-face.

Thisfunny pumpkin stencilproves not all Halloween decor has to be scary!

Use a thin, sharp blade like a craft knife to carve the shapes.

orange pumpkin with a sugar skull carved in the front of it, sitting on a halloween front porch with other small pumpkins

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Wicked Grin

A jagged grin is just part of this pumpkin’s spooky appeal.

His bright eyes will glow with abattery-operated candleinside.

This Halloween pumpkin is a modern take on the classic jack-o'-lantern.

skull and crossbones carved into pumpkin

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Googly Eyes

For a funny pumpkin-carving idea, try this silly jack-o'-lantern face template.

It will sure bring a few smiles from trick-or-treaters.

Don’t want to carve the whole thing?

pumpkin with Undercover stencil

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Use the stencil, butpaint portionsof the face instead!

If you’re creating apainted Halloween pumpkin, use long-lasting acrylic paint.

Create a trio of happy pumpkin faces to welcome trick-or-treaters this Halloween.

pumpkin with Basic Shapes Face stencil

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Place the white pumpkins with orange mums or leaves for acolorful fall porch.

Scared Face

Give your jack-o'-lantern the look of wide-eyed fear with thispumpkin face stencil.

It’s great for beginners because you only need to master a couple of basic shapes like ovals.

pumpkin with Wicked Grin stencil

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Dorky Face

This funny pumpkin face stencil will add a friendly face to your jack-o'-lantern lineup.

Complete your Halloween pumpkin display with a carved emoji pumpkin.

Silly Skeleton

Let a skeleton grin on your pumpkin this Halloween.

pumpkin with Googly Eyes stencil

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This jack-o'-lantern face template provides an easy guide for creating a classic pumpkin face.

Starry-Eyed

This jack-o'-lantern will steal the show.

The starry-eyed guy is all smiles and ready to charm trick-or-treaters.

Trio of white pumpkins with different goofy faces carved into fronts of pumpkins

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Display him on yourfall front porchas part of a pumpkin-packed display.

Etch deep into the pumpkin around the eyes to create a spooky, backlit look.

A silly tongue and big eyes make up the oh-so-cute design of this pumpkin-face template.

pumpkin with scared face stencil

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Haunting Vampire

Sink your teeth into a vampire-inspired Halloween stencil featuring fangs and glaring eyes.

Getmore pumpkin stencilsand create a few iconic designs.

Bucktooth Grin

Check out this guy’s silly face!

pumpkin with Dorky Face stencil

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We bet trick-or-treaters will get a few laughs from this funny pumpkin carving idea.

Get the look by carving the face and etching around the eyes.

Clean at least 1/2 inch of flesh from the inside when prepping your pumpkin for carving.

pumpkin with Skeleton stencil

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This allows more light to glow through the etched areaslike this pumpkin’s eyes.

Ghost Face

Give this hauntingly fun ghost a place in yourHalloween jack-o'-lanternlineup.

This free pumpkin printable features big surprised eyeslike someone just told him, “boo!”

pumpkin with Cross-Eyed stencil

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Silly Face

Laugh along with this friendly funny-face.

The big eyes, two teeth, and tongue of this jack-o'-lantern face template make the design especially expressive.

Kissy Face Emoji

Step out from ordinary pumpkin-face templates and express yourself with an emoji pumpkin!

pumpkin with Starry-Eyed stencil

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This easy pumpkin carving stencil requires just a simple etching technique.

pumpkin with Great Ape stencil

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pumpkin with Baby Face stencil

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sly vampire carved pumpkin with faux ravens

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pumpkin with Bucktooth stencil

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pumpkin with Ghost Face stencil

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pumpkin with Silly Face stencil

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pumpkin with kissy face emoji stencil

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