Pumpkin Carving Ideas From Around the Smithsonian
Print out and tape these stencils to your Halloween pumpkin for a different kind of jack o'lantern
- By Brian Wolly
- Smithsonian.com, October 22, 2010
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(Malcolm Collins, NMNH/Stencil by Jamie Simon)
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The Natural History Museum's "Hall of Human Origins" exhibit is home to a whole series of scary models showing the evolution of the human skull. We chose this neanderthal one as the specimen for your pumpkin carvings. Be sure to cut only along the dotted lines, such that your skull is lit up from behind by the square frame.
Click on the image above for a printer-friendly stencil to attach to your pumpkin.
Email smithsonian.magazine@gmail.com photographs of your pumpkin along with your name and we'll post them on this page.
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Comments (4)
I love your site and I would hope that more people would visit this site , I have two great nices and the both love looking things up on here their ages are 6 and 11 both girls have learned a lot and have taken information from this site into their class rooms and have tryed to make arragements so we can soon some day take our first visit to your lovely place of intreste , the smithsonian have always been my best place to go on line to see all the wounderful work all you people do their it is atreaseue to keep and to have in our life time , again thanks so very much have a lovely day cindy Paul from coldwater mir
Posted by cindy paul on October 26,2012 | 07:22 AM
Thanks, Smithsonian, for these wonderful templates! I have a friend who will be sworn in as a US citizen soon. I plan to use the Star Spangled Banner to hand quilt a congratulatory gift for him . . . Just perfect for pumpkin carving and other uses as inspired.
Posted by Stephanie Davis on November 20,2010 | 06:05 AM
As a retired employee of the Smithsonian Institution I am sorely tempted to carve a 'Castle' pumpkin - but am preparing to leave for a weekend seminar on Solar Plate Etching. I've put the template in my "Save" file - maybe next year.
Posted by Jean Andersen on October 29,2010 | 04:26 PM
Wonderful! Finally something different that isn't "dripping" in gore. I plan to use two of the images. Thanks.
Posted by Susan Pompa on October 28,2010 | 07:22 AM