Pumpkin carving is what you make of it. It's a fun (family) activity that helps you get into the Halloween spirit and is a great way to express your creativity, too.
The best thing about it is the freedom: you can go for something playful like your favorite meme, or a scary zombie, it's all up to you.
To give you a better idea of what's possible, we at Bored Panda compiled a list of our favorite jack-o'-lanterns. Enjoy!
#1 My Friend Is Awesome At Carving Pumpkins
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#2 My Wife Won Her Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest After 5 Years Of Disappointment
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#3 My Husband's Pumpkin Carving
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#4 My Pumpkin Carving This Year
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#5 Just Finished Decorating Our Annual Scary Pumpkin
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#6 The Perfect Jack O'Lantern Doesn't Exist...
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#7 I Just Finished My Pumpkin Carving. "The Mad Titan, Thanos"
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#8 My Friend Carves The Best Pumpkins, Half Of My Halloween Excitement Is Waiting To See What He's Come Up With, Here Is This Year's
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#9 My Aunt Had A Pumpkin Contest At Work. Safe To Say She Won
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#10 I Carved A Pumpkin
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#11 My Jack O'Lantern Turned Out Pretty Good
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#12 Proud Of My Submission For The Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest Today
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#13 So My Friend Won A Pumpkin Carving Contest With This
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#14 Second Attempt At Pumpkin Carving
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#15 I Work In An Animation Studio With Some Of The Best Artists I’ve Ever Met And This Is The Pumpkin That Won Our Carving Contest Yesterday
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#16 Entry For My Work's Pumpkin Decorating Contest
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#17 I Carved A Pumpkin To Sum Up 2020
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#18 My Pumpkins For Halloween This Year
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#19 No One Even Notice My Pumpkin Last Night
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#20 We Made This For A Pumpkin Decorating Contest At Work
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#21 My Sister Carved A Pumpkin Again
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#22 I Carved It From Pumpkins
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#23 One Of The Cooler Pumpkins Carvings I’ve Seen
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#24 My 16-Year-Old Niece’s Halloween Pumpkin Carving
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#25 Luigi's Mansion Pumpkin
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#26 Gandalf vs. Balrog Pumpkin Carving "You Shall Not Paaaasss"
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#27 Is My Rick And Morty Pumpkin Worthy Of Your Praise?
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#28 This Welding Pumpkin
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#29 For My Birthday, I Wanted To Show You Guys My Pumpkin
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#30 My Little Sister's First Attempt At Pumpkin Carving. Her Talent Makes Me Sick Sometimes
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#31 My 2014 Pumpkins: Harry vs. Voldemort
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#32 I Carved The Scariest Pumpkin I Could Imagine
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#33 Am I Spooky Yet?
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#34 It’s Pumpkin Carving Season
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#35 I’ve Outdone Myself This Year
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#36 I Present The Trumpkin, 16 Hours, 56lbs, Three Pumpkins
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#37 Darling, It Will Be Bold. Dramatic
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#38 Someone Got The Pumpkins Right
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#39 Smashing Pumpkins
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#40 My Friend Just Posted This Pumpkin Carving On Facebook
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#41 When You Putin A Lot Of Effort Into Carving
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#42 Tonight, I Carved A Pumpkin. I Also Doused It In Lighter Fluid And Lit It On Fire
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#43 I Carved A Dog-O-Lantern
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#44 Pumpktris
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#45 My Wife’s Contribution For The Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest
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#46 When You Don't Know What To Carve - Star Wars
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#47 Finished My 2017 Halloween Pumpkin
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#48 Six Hours Later, My First Try At Surface Carving A Pumpkin
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#49 My Girlfriend's Submission For The Office Pumpkin Carving Contest
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#50 My Pumpkin Scares The Hell Out Of Me
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#51 Unbelievable Viking Pumpkin
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#52 Pumpkin Carving Success
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#53 My Girlfriend Made This "Demogourdgon" Pumpkin For The Office Pumpkin Contest And Won 1st Place
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#54 Pumpkin Eye Ballz
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#55 Johnny Depp Pumpkin
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#56 The Second Time Carving Maleficent. This Time The Angelina Jolie Version
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#57 I Stepped Up My Pumpkin Sculpting Game With A Bigger Pumpkin Today
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#58 I Carved My First Pumpkin. His Name Is Murphy And I’m Obsessed With Him
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#59 A Pumpkin Carved Into A Pumpkin
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#60 These Handmade Pumpkin Carvings
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#61 "Predator" - A Carving On A Tremendous 257 Kg Pumpkin
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#62 Big Green Keg Pumpkin DIY
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#63 My Pumpkin Carving Might Be Recognizable To Some Of You
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#64 This Pumpkin Gave Me Nightmares Last Night And I Made The Damn Thing
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#65 My Friend's Dad Is A Dentist. This Is His Pumpkin For Halloween
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#66 We Still Have This Small Pumpkin My Wife Carved 3 Years Ago
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#67 I Made A "The Thing" Pumpkin. It Only Took An Unreasonable Amount Of Time
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#68 I Carved This For Halloween. Expecto Pumpkin
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#69 I Carved A BB8 Pumpkin. This Is Him Now
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#70 My Wife's First Attempt At Painting Pumpkins. They Came Out Ok
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#71 My Contribution To The Keene Pumpkin Festival
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#72 A Few Cool Pumpkins From A Carving Contest In My Community
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#73 My First Pumpkin Of The Year. Wednesday Addams Giving Some Epic Side-Eye
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#74 The Scariest Idea I Could Think Of For A Spooky Pumpkin
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#75 I Carved A Pumpkin This Weekend
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#76 One Of The Scariest Pumpkins I've Seen Yet
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#77 My Attempt At Fulfilling My Daughter's Request For An Anglerfish Pumpkin
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#78 Member Pumpkins Again?
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#79 The Rosetta Stone Carved Into A Pumpkin
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#80 "And Then He Greeted Death As An Old Friend, And Went With Him Gladly, And, Equals, They Departed This Life.” The Tale Of The Three Brothers, Both Pumpkins Together
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#81 Peter Peter The Pumpkin Eater
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#82 My Girlfriend Had A Pumpkin Carving Contest At Work
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#83 My Pumpkin Contest Entry
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#84 These "Up" Pumpkins
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#85 I Call This “Here Comes The Sloth”
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#86 Zombie Pumpkin. This One Was Tough, But Love How It Turned Out
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#87 It's Friday Tomorrow Witches. Took Me Forever To Carve This
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#88 Minion Lovers, This Should Officially Be The Best Jack O'Lantern Ever
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#89 A Bit Better With The Lights On
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#90 My 9-Year-Old Daughter’s Idea: Human Spice Latte
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#91 I Carved A Truth Pumpkin. Happy Halloween Everyone
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#92 The Pumpkin My Dad Submitted To His Office Pumpkin Contest A Couple Years Ago
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#93 Found This Weird Double Pumpkin And Had To Do It
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#94 First Time Carving A Pumpkin & I’m 22. Dropped The Little Pumpkin But The Crack Makes It Better
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#95 My GF Carved This Last Night. Don't Think A Lot Of People Will Recognize It But I'm Sure It'll Be Appreciated Here
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#96 If You Pick Your Pumpkins Right, They Turn Into Shrunken Heads In The Las Vegas Heat. Ready For October
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#97 Happy Halloween. Charon Pumpkin Carving
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#98 Anglerfish Pumpkin
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#99 Expecto Pumptronus. A Harry Potter-Themed Jack O'Lantern
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#100 My Brothers Yearly Pumpkin
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#101 Pumpkin Graveyard
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#102 My Team's Entry Into Our Company's Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest
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#103 Pumpkin Parasite In Action
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#104 The Collector
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#105 My First Time Carving A Pumpkin In Years. Love The End Result
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#106 Blazing Pumpkins
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#107 Family Pumpkin Carving Got A Little Competitive
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#108 My Wife Was Not Thrilled With My Pumpkin Carving This Year
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#109 Pumpkin Carving Went Plus Ultra This Year
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#110 I Did Not Win The Company Pumpkin Carving Contest
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#111 Halloween Pumpkin Carving
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#112 My Girlfriend Entered A Pumpkin Contest. Win Or Lose, I Say She Nailed It
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#113 My Minion Pumpkin
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#114 Finished Carving A Totoro Pumpkin Just In Time For Halloween
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#115 My Nephew Has A Pumpkin Contest At School. He Better Win
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#116 My Son Wanted A Thomas The Train Pumpkin For Halloween. I May Have Gone Overboard
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#117 Easily My Best Pumpkin Yet
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#118 Since Everybody Else Is Doing One
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#119 Not An Artist By Any Means But I'm Pretty Proud Of My Pumpkin This Year
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#120 My Little Shop Of Horrors Decorated Pumpkin 2017
There is a pumpkin in the lower plant with no hand. No puncture or carving allowed. All handmade. Tell me what you think!
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#121 My Barber's Angler Fish Pumpkin
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#122 Really Surprised How Well My Pumpkin Carving Turned Out
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#123 You Guys Enjoyed My Wife's Pumpkins Last Year. Here Is The 2017 Edition
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#124 I Painted A Dutch Pottery Style Pumpkin
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#125 Breaking Bad Pumpkin
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#126 So It Turns Out That Leaving A Jack O'Lantern Next To A Tree Where Squirrels Can Eat Away Its Face Results In The Most Terrifying Pumpkin Ever
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#127 BF Carved A Galaxy Pumpkin
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#128 I Think I've Found My Calling. Here's Pumpkin Attempt #3
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#129 This Is My Entry To The 2018 Blizzard Pumpkin Contest, Not Quite How I Imagined But I'm Still Proud
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#130 Ready For The Office Pumpkin Contest (This Time With The Candle)
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#131 My Pumpkin For This Year's Contest. Holy Hot Glue Sticks, Batman
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#132 My Work Friend Carved This In Our Annual Work Pumpkin Carving Contest, It Was His First Pumpkin And It Took Him 10 Hours
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#133 Scariest Pumpkin Carving Ever
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#134 Why So Serious?
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#135 Rawr
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#136 It's Not Much, But I'm Kinda Proud Of My Bob's Burgers Jack O'Lanterns
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#137 Graveyard Pumpkin Diorama
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#138 I Carved A Pumpkin Today
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#139 Just Bought Some Calls On $pumpkin
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#140 Since 2012 I’ve Been Making My Pumpkins A Bit Differently
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#141 This Little Pumpkin I Carved
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#142 Pumpkin Riiiiiick (And Morty)
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#143 Very Proud Of My Pumpkin This Year
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#144 This Carved Pumpkin
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#145 I Carved Geralt Onto A Pumpkin This Year
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#146 Carved This Last Night
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#147 I Carved This Pumking. What Do Yall Think?
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#148 This Pumpkin That I Carved Yesterday
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#149 My 2020 Pumpkin Carving, "Pennywise... The Dancing Clown!"
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#150 My Friend Carved These Hocus Pocus Pumpkins And Put Glow Sticks In Them So They Glow Different Colors
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#151 For Five Years Now I’ve Been Painting Classic Goosebumps Covers On Pumpkins. Here Is The First One Of The Season
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#152 Terrifying. An Entry Into The Neighborhood Pumpkin Carving Contest
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#153 Kills 99.9% Of Hopes And Dreams
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#154 That’s No Moon
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#155 First Pumpkin Of The Year And He Unintentionally Ended Up Looking A Bit Like Mike Wachowski From "Monsters, Inc."
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#156 I Carved A Pumpkin
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#157 I Decided To Carve A Pumpkin
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#158 My Dad Carved The Best Pumpkin And I Thought It Needs To Be Shared Somehow
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#159 Happy Halloween. Our Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest Brings Out The Creativity In Our Team Members
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#160 My Entry For The Office Pumpkin Contest. Donald Trumpkin
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#161 My Dad Just Lasered This Onto A Pumpkin
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#162 Found Some Candles. Here's My Steve Buscemi Pumpkin. Did I Capture His Eyes?
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#163 My 3-Year-Old Son Wanted Me To Make Him A "Scary Pumpkin". Pretty Happy With How It Came Out
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#164 My First Attempt At A 3D Pumpkin Carving, How'd I Do?
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#165 I Work In A Call Center For Customer Service, And Our Department Entered This Pumpkin Into The Contest That Was Held For Halloween. We Won
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#166 My Friend Carved The Scariest Thing He Could Imagine Into His Pumpkin This Year
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#167 Found At My Works Pumpkin Decoration Contest
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#168 My Buddy's Jack O'Lantern This Year
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#169 Thought I'd Share This Halloween Pumpkin Decoration Of Bob Ross From Work
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#170 Got The Night King Pumpkin Carving Complete. Pretty Happy With How It Turned Out. Took About 6 Hours In Total To Gut, Carve And Shade. I Love October
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#171 I Know You Guys Have Seen A Lot Of Jack O'Lanterns Lately, But Here's My Buddy's From Last Night
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#172 The Hash Slinging Slasher
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#173 It May Not Be Anywhere Near Perfect But I Am Geeking Out Over My BB8 Pumpkin Chilling On My Doorstep This Year
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#174 Pre-Halloween Pumpkin Carving
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#175 Do You Want To Know How I Got These Carves?
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#176 Girlfriend’s Pumpkin Blew Me Away
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#177 Pumpkins That Were Grown In A Mould
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#178 My Submission To The GW2 Pumpkin Carving Contest
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#179 My Girlfriend Made This Amazing Pumpkin For Halloween
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#180 My First Pumpkin Carving. A Tiger Jack O'Lantern
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#181 My Attempt At A Minecraft Jack O'Lantern
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#182 My Attempt At The Isaac Jack O'Lantern
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#183 This Jack O'Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
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#184 My Submission For The Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest This Year
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#185 My Pumpkin Don't Feel So Good
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#186 Really Happy With My Pumpkin This Year
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#187 I Carved A Few Pumpkins
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#188 No One At The Carving Party Knew Who These Guys Were - But I Bet You Guys Will
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#189 Thanos And The Infinity Pumpkin
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#190 My 8-Year-Old Daughter Entered This Junimo Pumpkin Into Her School's Pumpkin Decorating Contest
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#191 We Had A Pumpkin Decorating Contest At Work Today. My Team Is Sassy
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#192 Pumpkin I Carved Of My Fiancée And I For Our Wedding
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#193 A Little Late, But Here's My Totoro Pumpkin From This Year
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#194 My Giant Cheshire Cat Pumpkin. I’m Frazzled From How Much Energy It Took To Move That Monster
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#195 I Tried Carving Keanu Reeves' Face Into A Pumpkin, But Instead, I Created A Horrible Abomination
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#196 Giant Smiler
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#197 Hocus Pocus Or Mucus Pukus?
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