How to Carve a Pumpkin

Halloween is right around the corner. So maybe you should drop that Xbox controller, pick up a knife and carve yourself a pumpkin. True, pumpkin carving isn’t exactly rocket science (though strapping a rocket to a pumpkin would be fun), but these tips and tricks can probably teach you a thing or two.

First up, from instructional web site Video Jug, is “pumpkin carving expert” Irene Brooks to show you how to carve a kitty into that gourd of yours.

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If you want your pumpkin to have a little more utility, ViewDo‘s Madeline teaches you how to turn your pumpkin into a cooler for drinks (and how to toast those seeds for a snack).
Tired of the same ole method of stabbing into a pumpkin from the outside? Check out this slideshow on carving a pumpkin from the inside.

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If all of these methods are too tame for you, check out this pumpkin-carving contest Popular Mechanics held amongst its editors last year. Scalpels, drills, hatchets, even liquid nitrogen was used.
Or finally, for those of you still fixated on the rocket pumpkin idea (just don’t try this at home):

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