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10 Kid-Friendly Pumpkin Carving Ideas For Halloween 2025
Halloween is around the corner and you can easily make this year’s spooky party the best one yet. We have come up with creative ideas for pumpkin carving which can easily make for fun and exciting activities for kids as well as adults. Check the below list and choose as per your liking and convenience.
10 Easy & Safe Pumpkin Carving Ideas Kids Will Love This Halloween 2025
1. Haunted House Silhouette + Glow Sticks
Line the inside of the pumpkin windows with green or purple glow sticks to give the haunted house an eerie glow, almost like ghostly energy radiating through the windows. Let kids sketch the haunted house outline with markers before carving, or add bat/ghost stickers around the outside for extra spooky vibes.
2. Galaxy Pumpkin + LED Foam Stick
Instead of a single light, insert a color-changing LED foam stick inside. The shifting colors will make your ‘stars’ twinkle like a real galaxy. Children can help choose constellations or use safe tools like thumbtacks to poke smaller ‘star’ holes. They’ll love seeing their own constellations glow.
3. 3D Face Pumpkin + Glow Sticks
Place red or orange glow sticks inside to highlight the carved details. You could even tape one behind the pumpkin’s ‘mouth’ so it looks like it’s spewing fiery light. Kids can decorate by adding googly eyes, pipe cleaner “hair,” or even silly fake teeth for a fun, cartoonish look.
4. Creepy Peekaboo Pumpkin + Light Up Foam Stick
Use a strobe-style LED light up foam stick inside the bottom pumpkin (the one with glowing eyes). The flickering light will make it look like the creature is really alive. Have kids paint the top pumpkin’s ‘hands’ with glow in the dark paint so they stand out even more when the lights go out.
5. Emoji Pumpkin + Glow Sticks
Pick glow sticks that match the emoji’s vibe — yellow for 😍, blue for 😂, red for 😡. Swap them out for different moods throughout the night. Kids can trace the emoji outlines for carving or decorate mini pumpkins with paint or markers to match their favorite emoji faces.
6. Fairy Tale Castle + Foam Stick
Slide a multicolor LED foam glow stick inside the pumpkin. The changing colors will make the castle windows shimmer, as if enchanted. Children can add glitter, glow stickers, or even tiny toy knights/princesses around the outside to make it feel like a real magical kingdom.
7. Pumpkin Terrarium + Glow Sticks
Hide a few glow sticks behind the moss and fairy lights. Use green or blue for a mystical woodland effect, or purple for a magical fairy tale vibe. Let kids help fill the pumpkin with moss, toy fairies, dinosaurs, or even LEGO characters. They’ll enjoy building their own glowing world inside.
8. Spider Web Pumpkin + Glow Sticks
Weave thin glow sticks into the carved web design, making them look like glowing strands of web. Add a red one behind the spider to make it pop. Kids can stretch fake spider web across the pumpkin’s surface and place toy spooky fake spiders on them for extra creep factor.
9. Pop Culture Characters + Foam Stick
For Batman, put in a yellow foam stick to mimic the bat-signal. For Harry Potter, try a wand-like glow stick sticking out from the pumpkin for an interactive effect. Children can add fun props — like a paper cape for superheroes or a mini wand for Harry Potter — and decorate with Halloween themed stickers.
10. Cannibal Pumpkin + Glow Sticks
Put glow in the dark sticks inside the smaller “eaten” pumpkin so it looks like it’s glowing from fear. Use red or orange in the big pumpkin’s mouth to create a fiery, monstrous effect. Kids can use markers to draw silly or scared faces on the smaller pumpkin to make the scene funnier (or creepier).
