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Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns, 2021

Bill GabbertOctober 22, 2021October 30, 2021UncategorizedJack O'Lantern, Smokey Bear

smokey bear jack o'lantern — Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern by Louie and his grandson, October, 2017.

Would you like to have Smokey Bear looking at your trick or treaters from a Halloween Jack O’Lantern?

Here are instructions and a template for carving yours.

Send us photos of your 2021 Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern and we will put some of them here.

Make a Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern

Bill GabbertOctober 22, 2018November 5, 2018UncategorizedJack O'Lantern, Smokey Bear

Would you like to have Smokey Bear looking at your trick or treaters from a Halloween Jack O’Lantern?

Here are instructions and a template for carving yours.

Send us photos of your 2018 Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern and we will put some of them here.

Below are photos sent to us after this article was published. We’ll update it with more as they come in:

Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns 2017

Bill GabbertOctober 22, 2017October 26, 2017UncategorizedJack O'Lantern, Smokey Bear1 Comment

Above: Louie and his grandson got an early start on this year’s Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern.

Send us your photos of Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns and we will put some of them here.

Here are instructions and a template for carving yours.

UPDATE October 26: Jolene Sakaske sent us the photo below, saying it was in memory of her grandfather, Joseph Sakaske.

Thanks and a tip of the hat go out to Louie and his grandson.

Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns, 2016

Bill GabbertOctober 31, 2016October 31, 2016UncategorizedJack O'Lantern, Junkins Fire, Smokey Bear

Above: carved by Marta Lujan at the Junkins Fire southwest of Pueblo, Colorado.

Here are photos of Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns sent to us by our readers so far this year.

Instructions with a template for carving your Smokey Bear Jack O’Lantern.

Thanks and a tip of the hat go out to Allen and Doug.

Smokey Bear Jack O’Lanterns, 2016

Bill GabbertOctober 27, 2016September 6, 2018UncategorizedJack O'Lantern

Smokey Jack O'Lantern — Smokey Jack O’Lantern by Crystal Fajt, October, 2014.

Would you like to have Smokey Bear looking at your trick or treaters from a Halloween Jack O’Lantern? Here’s how, thanks to the Virginia Department of Forestry:

Print this stencil, which looks like this, below:

Then:

Option #1

Cut out the “black pieces” from the stencil sheet, using an x-acto knife or similar tool.
Tape stencil sheet onto pumpkin.
Use a fine-line marker and draw the image ‘through the holes” onto the pumpkin.
Cut these pieces away from the pumpkin.

Or, Option #2

Tape the stencil onto the pumpkin.
Using a pin or other sharp tipped tool “pin-prick” the edge of all the black portions of the stencil.
Remove the stencil, and connect the dots/pin-pricks with a marker.
Cut these pieces away from the pumpkin.

And,
5. Send us a photo of your result. (We will post some of them.)

Here’s one created by Josh Quinn in 2015: