This is what I did on Halloween.

I hadn’t carved a pumpkin since 5th grade. It was fun and also a lot easier than I remember it being. My parents had bought some kind of delux pumpkin carving kit, which came with “complex” templates (which you taped to your pumpkin and used a little poker to poke holes and make a path) and high quality carving tools which were just little serrated blades glued to an orange handle. Those things were very difficult to handle as a child, and also broke if you carved too hard. Anyways, Happy Halloween!