Jack O Lantern Ideas & Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

I have some fun jack O Lantern ideas for you. I love Halloween and carving pumpkins and decorating. It’s such a fun thing – even the colors. Burnt orange and the colors of the falling leaves are just soooo beautiful! Well I wanted to try making a scary jack o lantern but nothing that was soo intricate to make so I’m really no artist. So what do you think about my spider jack o lantern ideas?

Spider Pumpkin – I just made some eyes in this pumpkin and added these spooky spiders.

This was pretty easy – I just wrapped Tootsie roll lollypops in napkins, tied them off with cheap pruple curling ribbon, then added eyes & mouth with a Sharpie

This fun pumpkins was really easy. I just popped in Tootsie roll suckers all over it! This is a great ideas for Kids Halloween Parties or Fall Harvest parties where you don’t want anything spooky or scary.

This jack o lantern idea is really different but VERY easy. You just use metal cookie cutter for your shapes. You can make any shape you like.

Use your shapes that you’ve cut out of your pumpkin to decorate Halloween food plates and food trays for your dinner or party to keep things festive. Get creative…. you can make themes or go scary. I have links below to my favorite cookie cutters for this project. Have fun!

Wilton 6 piece mini cookie cutter set – metal $5.20 (great for smaller pumpkins or medium sized pumpkins)

Vampire cookie set – $3.69

If you want more of a “fall harvest” theme instead of spooky Halloween maybe for religious reasons or maybe you just think its too scary for little ones then try these fall cookie cutters of leaf and acorn patterns. Just $7.96

Want to get really creative with different themes? Try these really fun themes!