Fruit and vegetable decorative carving device

Abstract

A device, which can be incorporated into a kit, useful in carving decorative designs in the shell or skin of fruits or vegetables having a base plate, which is preferably flexible, containing a plurality of co-planar, upstanding, piercing elements, in a decorative pattern relative to the base plate, whose axis are formed in a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the base plate. The drive pins forming an elongated shaft, having one end secured to the base plate and the other forming a piercing point. The carving kit includes the device having driving pins configured in a pattern, at least one cutting tool for inserting into the perforations made by the device; and instructions for use of the device in conjunction with the cutting tools. Preferably the device is used to facilitate carving of pumpkins at Halloween.

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