I too have never carved a pumpkin but have decided to this year and have looked for information regarding how to do it. This website provides a detailed description of how to carve a pumpkin that should be able to help you: http://www.ehow.com/how_3983_carve-pumpkin.html
To clean a pumpkin you can wash it with a damp towel. Then you can take a carving knife. Carve out the pumpkin with a design of your liking. Make sure to take out the seeds. You can draw a design on the pumpkin first and use that as an outline when you carve the pumpkin.
with a knife
i decided to carve a pumpkin for Halloween
You are drawing on his head -- the pumpkin gets carved the same way. Whatever face you draw will work.
I think the best way to decorate a pumpkin for Halloween is to carve it. You can find different carving patterns from faces to scenes in books and magazines.
any face is acceptable
Pumpkin
spoon to spoon out the stuff inside and a knife to carve it!
Well firstly, why would you find the pumpkin cute? I guess you would carve a cute pumpkin just like any other pumpkin like an ugly one or a muddy one. With a knife and scooper. Be careful.
You should carve a pumpkin 1 or 2 days before Halloween. If you carve it too early, the pumpkin will start to rot/decay. Even better, carve it on the day of Halloween so you can light it before you go trick or treating. We usually carve at least two or three per season. We carve a couple earlier in October so we can always have one on the porch. We also love roasted pumpkin seeds! Then, we carve our last one the night before Halloween, so we can have a fresh one on the porch when trick-or-treaters come.
A carved pumpkin will last around a month. But it also depends on how much you have carved out. If you carve a lot out it will go rotten faster. But if you never carve anything out of the pumpkin it will last way longer then a mouth.
Carve it for halloween, make pumpkin pies, pumpkin soup with it, enter a competition for the biggest pumpkin at a country show, grow them.