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Supplies You Need for Carving Pumpkins
How to Choose the Right Size Pumpkin for a Jack-O'-Lantern
How to Prep Your Pumpkin for Carving
How to Choose Designs for Pumpkin Carving
Carving Out a Pumpkin Lid
How to Remove Pumpkin Seeds & Pumpkin Guts
How to Draw Eyes on a Pumpkin
How to Draw a Mouth & Nose on a Pumpkin
How to Add Additional Design Details on a Pumpkin
How to Start Carving a Pumpkin
How to Ensure Enough Light Gets through Your Jack-O'-Lantern
How to Carve Weapon Holders in Your Pumpkin
Outlining Cutouts on Your Pumpkin
How to Add Weapons to Your Pumpkin
How to Light a Pumpkin
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Summary: Learn how to prepare your pumpkin for carving in this free pumpkin carving video.
"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to creatively carve a pumpkin. For a creative pumpkin, we are going to be including a lot of intricate details on the pumpkin. And for that reason, it is very important that your pumpkin be clean and dry. Cleaning a pumpkin is very easy. You can take some paper towels or napkins and damp them. Then we are going to start going top to bottom on the pumpkin, slowly rotating as we go along, occasionally checking the napkin to make sure it doesn't become too dirty. If so, it's time to get another napkin. Often times you'll get pumpkins that have big mud splotches on them; they've just come from the fields in a lot of cases or even on a dirtier truck. So we want to make sure that the entire pumpkin is clean, even the backside that we are not using. I mean, see some of the grit and gunk that's coming off here. We want that off of our pumpkin. We don't want to be slipping with our hands too when we are cutting with the knife, which is another reason we want a nice clean surface where we don't have any of that grit or grime that's going to suddenly slip on our hands and become an accident. Also, we are going to be putting a lot of pen marks on here to guide our efforts pretty quick, meaning we want a clean surface. We don't want the pen flaking off because it's muddy. Now, you may think the pumpkin surface is automatically dry. I still recommend taking some paper towels or napkins (dry ones this time) and just going around; almost like doing a quick little shine of your pumpkin. This is going to make the pumpkin easier to get those intricate details on and will also make it safer to handle for our detailed cuts."
eHow Article: How to Prep Your Pumpkin for Carving
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