How scary and realistic do faces look when you give them big teeth? YouTuber DaveHax demonstrates five pumpkin carving techniques for making your own scary and surprising Halloween Jack-o’-lanterns, including how to:
- Make pumpkin teeth and pumpkin fangs
- Carve out eyes
- Drill holes for a pumpkin mirror ball lantern
- Carve a stem-nosed pumpkin
- Make light-up ping pong ball pumpkins with LED lights
One note on lithium cell batteries: if you have young children, you may want to explore alternative power solutions. Button-like batteries are extremely dangerous if ingested. Read more at the New York Times.
Related watching: Ray Villafane turns pumpkins into artfully carved Jack-o’-lanterns and DaveHax’s How to Make Heart-Shaped Eggs.
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