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Cat pumpkin stencil

Two original cat carving patterns — a bold sitting-cat silhouette and a front-on cat face — printed at true size from your browser. Print both and pick at the table, or print just the one you want. Every sheet carries its own carve guidance, and nothing you do here leaves your device.

Sheet— Variant— Cut area— Pages—

How this cat stencil page works

Both cats are original geometric constructions — silhouettes and features built in code from circles, polygons and arcs, not traced from anyone's artwork. That is a legal necessity and a carving advantage at once: constructed shapes have long, clean edges that saw well, instead of the hairline detail traced patterns lose the moment a knife touches them. The sitting cat here is the identical geometry the main stencil library ships — one definition, shared by both pages, so they can never drift apart — while the cat face lives only on this page.

The two variants are deliberately two difficulty levels. The sitting cat is a single solid silhouette: pure outside edges, nothing to break, which is what makes it the beginner's cut. The cat face flips the logic: the outline ring, ears, eyes, nose and whiskers are the cuts, and the pumpkin inside the ring stays. Its outline is broken by four bridge gaps that hold the face's center to the shell, and the page's tests verify — by flood-filling the actual geometry — that no region of pumpkin is ever fully surrounded by cuts on either variant. The "cut area" figure on each sheet is measured from the same geometry, so it is a real difficulty hint, not decoration.

The honest limits. These are single-layer stencils — cut through or leave alone, with no shaved half-depth layer. The cat face's whiskers are the thinnest cuts on either sheet; on a small pumpkin they get narrow, so if you are carving with kids, the sitting-cat silhouette is the safer pick. And the print dialog must be at 100% or "Actual size": "Fit to page" shrinks everything a few percent, and what it mostly costs a stencil is bridge width — the one dimension you want untouched.

Frequently asked questions

Which cat pattern is easiest to carve?
The sitting cat — it is one bold silhouette with no interior islands, so every cut is an outside edge and there are no bridges to protect. The cat face is the advanced one, because the face is drawn in outline and every gap in that outline is a bridge doing structural work: carve up to each gap and stop, and the center of the face stays attached.
Why does the cat face outline have gaps in it?
Those gaps are bridges. The cat face is an outline stencil: the ring of the face is cut away and the pumpkin inside it — where the eyes, nose and whiskers sit — has to stay attached to the rest of the shell. The four gaps in the ring are what hold it on. Carve each arc of the outline up to its gap and stop; cut across a gap and the whole center of the face falls into the pumpkin.
Can I make the cat bigger or smaller?
Yes, without ever touching an image scale control: the pattern fills your paper inside the margin, so landscape orientation or a smaller margin prints a bigger cat, and a larger margin prints a smaller one. A4 and US Letter both work. Whatever you pick, the pattern scales as one piece, so the proportions stay right and the readout tells you the sheet in use.
How do I get the pattern onto the pumpkin?
Print at 100% scale, tape the sheet to the pumpkin with a few short cuts in the paper's edges so it wraps the curve, then poke holes through the paper along every black edge — closer together on the tight curves of ears and tail. Peel the paper off and carve dot-to-dot. The same steps are stamped at the foot of each sheet.
Is anything uploaded or stored?
No. Both cats are drawn as vector geometry by this page, in your browser, and printed through your browser's own dialog. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is no account or watermark, and no settings are saved — close the tab and it is gone.

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