Free pumpkin carving templates are the hard copy versions of the free pumpkin carving patterns. In many ways, the pumpkin carving templates look like the negative of the pumpkin carving patterns. The pumpkin carving templates allow you to print and then transpose the design onto your pumpkin. We have seen some plastic templates but we believe paper is the best solution. Paper tends to be easy, less expensive and more flexible when it comes to taping it onto the pumpkin. We have had positive feedback from people that print out their pumpkin carving templates on adhesive paper. The people that have had success with the adhesive paper cut out the template from the adhesive paper. Once the template was cut out on the paper, they stuck the adhesive pumpkin carving template to the pumpkin. Then, they just carved around the adhesive template. Basically, the adhesive pumpkin carving template eliminates the need to transpose the design from the paper to your pumpkin and can save a little bit of time. If you have any ideas that work for you or like your pumpkin carving templates a certain way, please let us know!