To carve:

  1. Clean out your pumpkin with an ice cream scoop, scraping the pumpkin flesh thinnest on the side you’re planning to carve the design.
  2. Tape the printed stencil pattern to the pumpkin. Use a push pin or spiked tracing wheel to make closely spaced pricks along the stencil lines, piercing through the paper into the surface of the pumpkin.
  3. Tear off the printed stencil. Use a thin crafts knife to carve along the pin prick lines, cutting completely through the side of the pumpkin.