How To Carve A Justin Trudeau Pumpkin For Halloween

A crafty way to decorate your front porch for the season.

By Chatelaine

Updated October 20, 2017

What better way to celebrate this October than by carving the prime minister's face into a squash?

All you'll need to make Chatelaine’s Justin Trudeau pumpkin for Halloween is our handy Trudeau stencil and a:

Pumpkin hole punch
Scraping tool
Spoon
Light or candle
Pumpkin

Watch the video above to see how it's done.

This article was originally published in October 2016 and updated in October 2017.

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