Ready to create the ultimate jack-o'-lantern? Before you grab that knife, let's walk through the essential steps to pick, prepare, and carve the perfect pumpkin. From selecting the right pumpkin to ...

Two-year-old Cody O’Connell and seven-year-old James Meikle sit at the two Halloween carving tables at Cherrydale Farmer’s Market creating their pumpkins on Saturday morning. Cody, with major ...

As I write, it’s the week of trick-or-treat, and we’ve had well over 300 days to build up, in our minds, that rose-tinted vision of a time-honored family tradition: Carving jack-o-lanterns. We’ve ...

For some 40 years, Silicon Valley engineer Mike Valladao has been turning the humble jack-‘o-lantern into high-end creations Susan Young is a reporter. She started contributing to PEOPLE in 2008, ...

Jason Aldean and his wife, Brittany, celebrated Halloween in 2025 by carving and painting the most beautiful, but least scary pumpkins ever. How Does Jason Aldean Celebrate Halloween? Their two kids, ...

WAUPACA, Wisconsin ‒ It started 25 years ago with five carved lighted pumpkins displayed in front of Jim and Deb Miller’s rural Waupaca home. Over the years, those five pumpkins grew to 10, then 50, ...

For Happy Valley resident Gary Kristensen, carving a pumpkin isn’t just a fun way to celebrate Halloween. In May, he beat his own world record — you could even say he squashed it — by growing and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The kit combines Ryobi's FVM51 USB Lithium Rotary Tool and its FVH51 USB Lithium Power Carver: two cordless tools built for carving and ...

Every autumn, pumpkins take center stage in America, adorning porches as jack-o’-lanterns, starring in pies and lattes and fueling a seasonal economy. What began as an old Irish tale of “Jack of the ...

It's finally fall and that means it's closer to pumpkin-carving time. No matter how old you are, carving scary, funny, and goofy faces into a plump pumpkin never gets old. But when you have so many ...