Last night was pumpkin-carving night at my house ... short options—or you could also get several pumpkins and put one letter on each to spell a word. Squashes and gourds are delightfully ...

Learn how to carve letters into pumpkins here ... to fit your small pumpkin. Bonus points for carving or painting a shocked face on the pumpkin "meal." Use paint instead of knives.

Because these pumpkin carving ideas are timeless ... Thanks to the large, blocky letters of this stencil, it's an easy one to execute. Trace the stencil onto the pumpkin, and carve for a boo ...