Celebrate Halloween and electrical safety by creating your own Willie Wiredhand pumpkin. 

Download a stencil of Willie’s face, so you can carve or paint your pumpkin to look just like him!

What you need:

• 1 tall pumpkin
• 1 sharp, serrated knife
• 1 large spoon or pumpkin scooper
• 1 Willie Wiredhand stencil
• 1 pair of scissors
• 1 roll of masking tape
• 1 permanent marker
• 1 pumpkin carving kit
• 1 tea light or battery-powered LED candle

What to do:

• Ask a parent to cut off the crown of your pumpkin using a sharp serrated knife.
• Using a large spoon, scoop out the pumpkin seeds and fibers from inside the pumpkin and discard.
• Scrape the pumpkin’s interior flesh, so the pumpkin is dry and free of fibers.
• Download a Willie Wiredhand pumpkin carving stencil here.
• Choose which face size works best for your pumpkin. (Use a smaller stencil for shorter pumpkins.)
• Cut out the black eyes, nose and mouth from the stencil.
• Tape the paper stencil to the pumpkin.
• With a permanent marker, trace the cut-out shapes onto your pumpkin and remove the paper stencil.
• Using small pumpkin carving tools, cut out the shapes.
• Draw on Willie Wiredhand’s eyebrows.
• Place a tea light or LED candle inside the pumpkin and replace the crown!

TIP: If pumpkin carving is not your thing, trace Willie’s eyes, nose and mouth and fill with permanent marker or black paint!