Each year the city of Encinitas and the Self Realization Fellowship puts on a fun community event that features lots and lots of carved pumpkins. In this post you’ll see 64 photos that may give you great ideas for making your own carved pumpkins. The spectacular array of pumpkins throughout the old downtown area of Highway 101 draws a crowd of all ages.
Crowds line up to view the vast array of carved pumpkins
Adventure Movie Character Carved Pumpkins
The Hobbit
Gollum and Thranduil characters from The Hobbit are featured on the top row or pumpkin carvings.
In addition to Thranduil, you can see the Yazneg character on the right. Or is it Azog?
Yazneg character from the Hobbit
Star Wars
Yoda from Star Wars carved pumpkin
Princess Leia pumpkin
Star Wars Spacecraft pumpkin
Luke Skywalker pumpkin
Luke Skywalker with Yoda carved pumpkin
Marvel Comics and Super Heroes Carved Pumpkins
The Incredible Hulk
Monsters, Scary Animals and Mythical Beasts
Dragon carved pumpkin
A shark eating a shark pumpkin
Another rendition of a mythical dragon
Chinese style dragon
2 different pumpkin monsters
Halloween Theme and Scary Pumpkins
Halloween Haunted House pumpkin
Evil witch with her cat pumpkin carving
Skull profile portrait pumpkin
This headless horseman has a Jack O’Lantern head
Dracula pumpkin
Mad Motorcycle rider
3 Dimensional Carved Pumpkins
A fun variety of 3 dimensional carved pumpkins
3D goblin carved pumpkin
Wacky faced pumpkin
Scary hairy guy pumpkin with missing teeth
Fang bearing lion face pumpkin
Creepy zipper-head 3D pumpkin
2 face pumpkin
3 dimensional elephant face
Beautiful Animals
The King of the Jungle
Resting Tiger pumpkin
Butterfly carved pumpkin
Owl pumpkin
opposite cats
Another lovely butterfly pumpkin
Royal elephant pumpkin
Rising Phoenix pumpkin
Spider web and birds
Cartoon Characters
Characters from Casper the Friendly Ghost
Minion “Bello”
Anna of the movie Frozen
Frozen character Olaf made from stacked white pumpkins
Disney characters Bambie and Thumper
Disney’s Mickey Mouse with Pluto
Mickey Mouse in the movie, Fantasia
Garfield pumpkin
Garfield in a pumpkin
More Minions
Shrek pumpkin
Disney’s Nemo with his Dad
Surfing Culture
Sunset Surf
Old Woody with surfboard
Surfing on a stand up paddle board
Peace and Beauty
Pumpkin version of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam
Girl in a gown
Taj Mahal pumpkin
Meditating pumpkin
Miscellaneous Carved Pumpkins
Abe Lincoln pumpkin
Steve Jobs profile in Apple on painted pumpkin
Samurai
Want more? See 147 more carved pumpkins on our blog by clicking here. And you’ll find 75 more pumpkin carving ideas from a previous year here.
You’ll find a great collection of pumpkin carving tools as well as lessons in our online shop. Our Pattern Transfer Paper and Pattern Transfer Fabric are wonderful time-savers that also make it easier to carve, giving you better results. Find out more out them here.
Hi Nita
I was really interested in carving the Samurai pumpkin you have done. Can you please help me/show me how to do it PLEASE!
I’m a avid all things Japanese/samurai/ninja fan!
I would really appreciate it.
Thank you so much!
Nashir 🙂
The simple explanation: Do a Google search for samurai b&W clip art, find a graphic that you like. Download it to your computer and print it onto our Pattern Transfer Fabric or Paper. You will find the Pattern Transfer materials and instructions by clicking here. Then carve.
I show all the steps of doing these things in my video lessons, Carving Letters and Words.
Have fun!