15 Pumpkin Decorating Projects

Pumpkins add stylish, creative and fun touches to fall decorating. Try our techniques for creating pumpkins with personality!

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Knock-out design

Whimsical dots create a two-tone or multicolor design with season-long appeal.

Use a plunger-type apple corer to punch out circles from an assortment of pumpkins and winter squash. Tapping the plunger with a rubber mallet helps push the corer through tough pumpkin shells. Then re-insert the circles in contrasting-color pumpkins. Mix and match the circles from different pumpkins to create polka-dot patterns, or discard circles to let light glow through your design.