Halloween is approaching fast, so it’s time to buy a pumpkin and carve it into the shape of, well, whatever you want really. This video is designed to help fledgling pumpkin carvers, giving a rundown of the basic elements involved in carving a pumpkin for Halloween.
When I was a kid people carved their pumpkins exclusively to look like scary faces. But tastes have changed since then, and the techniques have improved to allow more detailed designs.
So now people carve pumpkins to look like all sorts, with some contests for Halloween 2010 even being built around Lady Gaga’s image. Which is just bizarre in my opinion.
This video doesn’t deal with Lady Gaga and the like, instead giving an easy-to-follow guide account of how to design a template and carve a pumpkin around that. So there’s now no excuse for not taking part.
