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Every year I think about decorating Halloween pumpkins and every year I avoid it because of the smell of the insides while carving. Or maybe it’s touching the smooshy guts. I’m not sure, but at this point in my life, I would rather find other ways to decorate a pumpkin besides carving. If you are like me, or even if you just want something you can keep year after year, you’ll love these 20 ideas. Some of them use faux pumpkins, and others use real pumpkins (but you can recreate these on faux pumpkins too!). They range from painting to glue to nailheads . . . and all of them are awesome. 1. Carve yourself some Scrabble tiles you can really get pumped about. After you've cleaned your pumpkin out, you can carve up to three sides of your pumpkin based on your favorite or random Scrabble tile. Then used some LED candles to really light up your game this Halloween. diy network 2. All your porch needs this year is a pair of starry night pumpkin pillars. You can clear the guts outs of your pumpkins and then paint on a spooky dark tree. Make sure it's super creepy. Then drill a bunch of stars and cut out a crescent moon. Then, all you need is a light to give your pillars that ethereal look. MICHAEL PARTENIO 3. Sunflower pumpkins are totally leaving Jack O' Lanterns in the wind this holiday season. Scoop out the pulp and seeds, trace the template of a sunflower and carve out the leaves and petals. You can also add different color twine or carve farm animals to give it that country living feel. delish 4. Prove to your neighbors that your Jack O' Lantern has the biggest mouth in the hood. Choose a large pumpkin to hollow and carve out. Just make sure that the eyes and nose are way up top and then carve out the big section, which will be its mouth. You can attach some black macrame strings to a metal ring, which will create a nice sling for Jack to sit on. thepolohouse 5. Use your pumpkin to create a diorama that you can really howl over this Halloween. Carve the inside out and make a lycan diorama with twigs for trees and rocks and shrubs that you can get from your backyard. You can also carve the crescent moon in the distance. Then, you just need a toy wolf to turn your pumpkin into a real Teen Wolf. delish 6. Who needs a human server when you can turn your pumpkin into a cupcake holder. There's no room this Halloween for any tricks with a plate of delicious treats sitting on a plate on top. But to do this, you'll need to remove the stump first. diy network 7. Just because it's Halloween, it doesn't mean that you can't have a hole-y experience. Instead of carving a face, use small and medium drill bits to Swiss Cheese your pumpkin. Just make sure to cut the top and remove the guts out first or it'll start oozing its guts out and make the trypophobe in your family freak. good housekeeping 8. If you're fresh out of ideas you can always look up to the sky for some interesting inspiration. Cut the insides, and get rid of Jack's guts. Then find a constellation that you really like. It could be your own zodiac sign. Then drill the holes, paint your Jack black, and stick a light in and voila! You've got yourself an astrological pumpkin for Halloween. delish 9. Go Trump this Halloween and tell your pumpkins that they're FIRED! Carve some flames on a number of pumpkins and stack them up from small to large in your fireplace and add some LED light to give your home interior a warm and fiery look this Halloween. country living 10. Give your pumpkin a creepy new aspect by using silhouettes to decorate them. Trace your family on a piece of black construction paper and cut the profile out. Then glue the silhouette on white paper circles and frame it in black doilies. Then glue your masterpiece into a white pumpkin for a classic yet eerie new look. delish 11. Let Mother Nature give your Jack O' Lantern a brand-new hairdo. Clean and carve your pumpkin the way you would when making a Jack O' Lantern. But instead of a candle or an LED light, stick a plant base inside. Just make sure that the plant is large enough to give Jack a spiked up punk hairdo or hair as long as Rapunzel's. good housekeeping 12. If you want a spooky new idea that'll make you go boo, then try making some ghost pumpkins. Carve some zigzags on the top, as well as some eyes and a mouth. Then turn the pumpkin upside down and you've got ghosts that would even scare Casper. diy network 13. Create some creepy looking skeletal pumpkin arms from beyond the grave. You'll need a large, cylindrical pumpkin for the skeletal arm and a smaller pumpkin which you'll use in combination to carve the bony hand. But scoop the insides out first. Then add an LED light and place them outside so they look like skeletons are rising from their graves. country living 14. Make sure all eyes are on your pumpkins this Halloween, cause they'll certainly be watching out for you. Scoop out the insides. Then draw the eyes and mouth on the pumpkin, and scoop out the eyeballs using a melon baller, then reattach the balls with a toothpick, but use seeds to make the pupil. Remember, the more eyes you make the creepier it'll be. woman sday 15. Here's a pumpkin idea that your spider can web sling better than Spider-Man. Creating a spider using piper cleaner is easy. Carving a web design out of a white pumpkin, now that's the killer. You better leave this one for the weekend when you actually have time to perfectly cut out every tiny hole, but it'll be worth it just to spook your neighbors and friends out. good housekeeping Credits: lifebuzz.com Share this story on Facebook with your friends.