Difficulty: Medium Easy: Children Friendly Medium: Requires a bit more skill and precision Hard: Quite a few tricky areas INSANE: Only for the highly skilled pumpkin carvers! Simply print out the stencil at 100% scale and tape it onto your pumpkin (the more tape the better). If your pumpkin is bigger or smaller than average, you can always reduce or enlarge the image before printing. Use a sharp tool to perforate holes along all the edges of the design through the paper. Once there are dots outlining the design, take the paper off and carve out the GRAY areas. I did not make them black, because gray will be a lot friendlier on your printer ink!! I always recommend working with the smaller parts first and from the inside out. That way the pumpkin is much more sturdy during the carving process. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me! Happy carving!! :)