How to cut a Pumpkin for Halloween: Detailed Instructions with Photos! (Author @milaoz).

Tonight will be a very merry holiday nightmare and horror Halloween! 

This holiday can not do without the pumpkin and so today I decided to make a face on the pumpkin terrible.

Jack lantern, namely the so-called this extraordinary symbol of Halloween, should decorate every house in this unusual celebration, because it is able to protect against various evil spirits and otherworldly creatures.

Traditional lantern Jack - a pumpkin from which all heed the inwards, and cut her bloodthirsty little face, usually there are eyes and a predatory smile.    

              

Manufacturing:

1. To begin, choose a pumpkin. The larger the size, the greater will jack-o'-lantern. It is desirable that the pumpkin was proportionate, smooth, beautiful, no flaws on the skin in areas that remain intact.

2. Cut out a knife the upper part of the pumpkin. Big spoon with a sharp edge, a scraper or a soft hand get all the contents of pumpkins: seeds, fiber pulp. If the pumpkin is dry, the longer it will stay.

3. Draw in pencil by hand or harvested using a stencil, the future a face on the pumpkin: the eyes, toothy maw or smiling from ear to ear. Here it is possible to give your imagination run wild! The more holes, the brighter your light will Jack. Though work is also added.

4. With a sharp knife cut out the contour supported on drawing a pumpkin. At this stage it is not necessary to hurry up, try as closely as possible to repeat the pattern and do not make unnecessary cuts. On this depends the beauty and accuracy of your creation.

Our smiley on a pumpkin turned out terrible as intended.

Now we have to decorate a pumpkin candles. In the center carved pumpkins add a small candle.

             

Coming up with the plot for the future of Halloween symbols, it is not necessary to dwell only on the bloodthirsty monsters. You can slightly complicate the task itself. Pumpkin - the perfect material for an interesting story, it is moderately soft and supple, well holds its shape and does not deteriorate for a long time.

In the evening, when it got dark, my pumpkin looked like this!

                    

                    

I hope my story, how to carve a pumpkin for Halloween, and a selection of photos inspire you to new interesting ideas :). Enjoy your holiday!

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