Disney Tips For Designing Your Jack-O-Lantern

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If you're looking for ideas on how to design your Halloween jack-o-lantern, we've got 182 of them -- and they all can be found on Main Street USA at Magic Kingdom Park. It's not the usual squares and rectangles for pumpkins at Walt Disney World Resort this season -- they're unique. Different designs and shapes include a hot dog pumpkin over Casey's Corner and my favorite snowman pumpkin. There's even a pumpkin featuring a spilled ice cream cone. The Magic Kingdom Park hand-carved pumpkins on the buildings and in windows are redesigned with different designs and shapes, according to David Hartmann, an art director with Walt Disney Entertainment. Disney's Event and Decorating Support then took David's sketches and made them real. Check out some of David's best in a quick video. If you're carving your own jack-o-lantern in the next few days, here's some advice from the people who make Main Street, USA so unique this time of year: * Pick your pumpkin -- Before you buy, put your potential pumpkin on the floor or ground and make sure it sits straight. If you can "see" where the face should go, it's the right pumpkin for you. * Start sketching on paper - Once you start cutting into the pumpkin, it's too late to go back. First, draw your design on a piece of paper (grocery bag, old wrapping paper, newspaper) the same size as your pumpkin. Once you've got your design just how you want it, you're ready to move the design to your pumpkin. Disney's Event and Decorating Support used ...