Halloween stencils are for drawing or painting patterns onto pumpkins. These particular stencils are not used for carving into pumpkins. As we develop this section, we will offer Halloween stencils that are very similar to “paint-by-number”.  The advantage to Halloween stencils is that they can be painted onto pumpkins, walls, paper, canvas or pretty much anything. Obviously, if you are using these stencils to put images on your car, you are not going to want to use oil paint! Anyway, we are working on these designs and stencils as pumpkin painting is becoming increasingly popular. We believe the reason for the increased popularity is because the pumpkin lasts much longer as a decoration. Furthermore, you can use the same pumpkin that you painted, wash it off and carve it right before Halloween. So, painting pumpkins doesn’t really replace carving pumpkins. Many people do both!