Your Neighbors Will Do a Double-Take When They Spot These Outdoor Halloween Decorations
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Your Neighbors Will Do a Double-Take When They Spot These Outdoor Halloween Decorations
Halloween calls for a celebration, especially if there are children in the mix. While it's always a blast to pick the perfect Halloween costumes, settle on party games and deck out inside your home for the spookiest day of the year, it's also a cue to have some fun outside. Luckily, there's no shortage of outdoor Halloween decoration ideas.
You can show off your style with all kinds of cool and scary Halloween decorations, which are sure to put smiles on the faces of any trick-or-treaters and guests who swing by your home. Whether you live for statement yard inflatables or prefer DIYs that involve everything from skulls and skeletons to fake blood and spider webs. And, of course, we sprinkled in all kinds of pumpkin display ideas. Take a look through our best ideas to get ready for October 31. Our roundup of creative fun DIY projects will make this year's Halloween festivities one to remember.
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Witch Silhouettes
etsy.com
$41.57
Place these waterproof witches around the front of your home, and chances are they'll get the job done just as good as your security cameras.
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Bat & Boojee Doormat
etsy.com
$19.80
Guests might think twice about stepping foot inside in your home once they see this "Bat & Boojee" coir doormat.
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Twine Spiderweb Wreath
Ditch the traditional black and orange wreath for this unique creation, featuring a spiderweb design made of twine and white burlap ribbon.
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Giant Spider
Aitbay
amazon.com
$19.99
The kids in your circle are guaranteed to get a kick out of this huge spider. Who knows? They might even think it's real.
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Bloody Decals
Tonak
amazon.com
9.99
Add a killer element to your staircase this Halloween with bloody footprint decals. Enter at your own risk!
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Googly Eyes
When in doubt, rely on googly eyes to amp up your Halloween decor. Place them on your front door and in planters for a fun and festive look.
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Gloria Vanderboo Witch Bobble Statue
Design Toscano
wayfair.com
$68.90
If you're entry is in need of a finishing touch for Halloween, look no further than this metal bobble statue.
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Witch Legs
Fill a few wooden crates with poison apples (don't forget the witch legs) and wait for visitors to be scared out of their minds.
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Eyeball Garland
Why settle for regular-size eyeballs when you can go big? These giant versions are just the right size to make festive garland.
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Pumpkin Popsicle Stick Door Hangers
Amp up the exterior of your home with these kid-friendly door hangers that are crafted with painted popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners.
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Fake Spider Web
90shine
amazon.com
$11.88
Haunted house pros know that you get the best bang for your buck with faux cobwebs. Just one package can spin across your whole front porch.
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Vine Pumpkins
To keep it simple this year, add a stack of painted pumpkins — don't forget the berries — to a wooden chair. Set them on a plaid throw blanket to bring in more personality.
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Skull Lanterns
String lights with a Halloween twist? Yes, please. You can't go wrong with this attention-grabbing design decked out with skulls.
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Inflatable Cat
Gemmy Industries
wayfair.com
$44.99
Kids are guaranteed to be delighted with this purr-fect oversized cat inflatable. It's even weather-resistant, so it can remain lit for as long as you wish.
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Battery Operated Timer Candles
PChero
amazon.com
$13.97
Just in time for trick-or-treaters, light the way to your front door with these battery-operated candles that emit a ghoulish glow.
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Halloween Pumpkin Centerpiece
Don't miss the opportunity to show off your style for an outdoor Halloween dinner party. Scatter a few pumpkins on your table, and pick a few to decorate with bittersweet wreaths.
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LED Black Spooky Tree
ALLADINBOX
amazon.com
$19.99
Set these LED branches in your creepiest planter for a quick outdoor Halloween decoration idea.
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The Holiday Aisle Halloween Lamp
The Holiday Aisle
wayfair.com
$30.90
Spruce up your stairs with these battery-operated lanterns that have just the right amount of spook.
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Halloween Pumpkin Garland
The Holiday Aisle
wayfair.com
$37.99
Equal parts cute and scary, this versatile garland can be used to enhance a front door or even windows.
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Witch Hanging Wall Plaque
bedbathandbeyond.com
$32.99
Let everyone know the witch's favorite family for Halloween with this birch wood sign.
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Halloween Window Stickers
Salovio
amazon.com
$9.99
Put your favorite Halloween movies on full display with these large decals that are perfect for windows of all sizes.
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Spider Egg Wreath
Here's a DIY project your child wouldn't mind tackling. After spray-painting plastic spiders and Styrofoam balls, attach then to a twig wreath form and finish the look with gauzy spiderweb material.
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Black Magic Frame
Cover a vintage frame in black spray paint, and once it's dry, cut out butterfly and Halloween-appropriate calligraphy art to dress it up. Hang your frame with any ribbon of your choice.
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Spooky Hanging Paper Lanterns
Upgrade basic paper lanterns with paint, gauze, studs and clip art from an eerie look.
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Skull Yard Stake
SAND MINE
amazon.com
$21.99
Line your front walkway with these spooky yard stakes. It's a simple way to make a big impact.
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Spider Web Wreath
To create this wreath, fold 2 sheets of black paper accordion-style (about 1.5" inch folds). Proceed to fold each in half lengthwise. Cut the top of the fold diagonally (you should be left with a pointed end when it's unfolded). Then, cut three rectangles out of the paper, about half an inch apart, on each segment. Once both sheets of paper are cut and folded, tie them together tightly at their center folds. Take each loose edge of folded paper and attach it to the end next to it with glue. Soon enough, the paper will open up like a spider web.
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Skeleton Hand Wreath
Take a mossy wreath to the next level by using a plastic skeleton hand and ribbon to hang it from your door.
RELATED: Scary-Good Halloween Wreaths to Impress Trick-or-Treaters
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Front Porch Candy Urns
This year, the CDC is encouraging "one way trick or treating" with treats wrapped up inside individual bags that kids can grab and go while maintaining social distance. Set up a treat station on your front steps with black urns and our "Pick Your Poison" calligraphy art.
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Plastic Snake Wreath
Spook the neighbors with this creepy, snake-laden wreath. To make it, gather an assortment of plastic snakes and a wreath form. Start with the largest snakes you have and weave them in between the twigs, repeating until you use all your rubber snakes. Use hot glue as needed to hold them to the wreath.
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Personalized Doormat
There's nothing like a festive doormat to excite trick-or-treaters. Download this skull family template to update yours. Print out as many faces as you have people in your household. Use an X-Acto knife or craft knife to cut out faces, eyes, noses, and mouths. Then, arrange the faces on your mat. Feel free to add cut-out letters, too. Attach paper to the doormat with folded-up painter's tape on the back. Then, starting with a little paint at a time, dab paint around the stencil with a foam brush. Continue until the entire mat is covered, and let it dry completely before removing the stencils.
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"Keep Out" Entryway
An unwelcoming entryway is perfect for Halloween. To get the look, stretch cobwebs to somewhat cover the door and secure them with masking tape. Cut cardboard to resemble various-size wood slats. Paint a "Keep Out" sign on two of the slats and glue bolts to each piece of cardboard. Tape the slats to the door and you're done.
RELATED: Easy Halloween Crafts for Adults Who Love All Things Spooky and Spidery
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Creepy Cutouts
These colorful creatures will show trick-or-treaters that your house is haunted from the inside out. Print the templates, then trace and cut them out from contact paper.
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Cobweb Wreath
To make this easy wreath, stretch a faux spiderweb onto a 12-inch embroidery hoop and close the hoop. Then, trim any extra web off from the back and add a few small spiders to the front.
RELATED: Spooky Window Decorations for the Best Halloween Ever
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Jack-o'Lantern Display
This statement-making display doesn't require you to be a pumpkin-carving expert. Instead, you can cheat with a drill. First, pencil your letters onto hollowed pumpkins (carve out the opening from the bottom). Next, use a drill with a half-inch bit to create holes that form each letter. Use a string of Christmas-tree lights, gathered in small bunches, to illuminate each pumpkin (unscrew the bulbs where the string descends to the next row).
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Old Man Tree Hugger Yard Art
Tree Poetry
amazon.com
$36.99
Trick-or-treaters will do a double take when they see this old man emerging from a tree trunk.
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Witch Broom Front Door Decorations
Hang a gathering of "witches' brooms" from your front door for a simple but seasonal theme. A Oujia board doormat ups the spook factor.
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Hanging Ghosts
Prextex
amazon.com
$26.99
These hanging ghosts are a classic and a must-have for Halloween decorating!
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Creepy Portrait Luminaries
Adhere a few old portraits to some paper bag lanterns for a front walkway that will send shivers down everyone's spine.
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Pumpkin Stack
You don't have to make intricate carvings to create a cute pumpkin display. Wow visitors by piling heirloom pumpkins on top of a stylish planter.
RELATED: No-Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas to Fill Your Halloween With Fun
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Black Streamer Wreath
This eery wreath is as simple as folding black streamers around a foam wreath form. Once you make the basic wreath, you can decorate it with plastic spiders, bats, or whatever creepy crawlies you'd like.
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Inflatable Pumpkin Decoration
Poptrend
amazon.com
$29.99
This display of happy little pumpkins is 8-feet-long, but reviewers on Amazon say it's a breeze to set up.
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Hay Bales Display
An easy way to prepare your home for Halloween is to add some hay bales to the mix. Top them with jack-o'-lanterns or other decorations to complete the look.
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Monster Entryway
This quirky DIY entryway will make everyone giggle. To make the eyes, paint black circles on two 8-inch foam half balls. Cut black foam eyelashes and eyebrows from black construction paper. From three yards of faux purple fur, cut two 16-inch squares and hot-glue each around a 12-inch foam wreath. Glue eyeballs in the center and eyelashes across the top. Add a horizontal string across the back of each eye for hanging. Frame the door with strips of fur using tacks of hem tape. Use Command Hooks to hang the eyes above. Tack or hem tape the eyebrows in place. For teeth, use foam cones, and then attach them to the top of the door frame with hem tape.
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Jack-o'-Lantern Scarecrow
Gather the family and create a scarecrow to sit on your front porch. You can make the face using a jack-o'-lantern, and get creative building the rest. If you don't have hay to fill your scarecrow, use crumpled newspaper instead.
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Halloween Spider LED Lights
MAOYUE
amazon.com
$19.99
For some spidery decor, string these lights around your porch railing to freak out arachnophobes.
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Glittery Witch Cutout
Use our free template to cut out a simple silhouette (and some twinkling Styrofoam stars) that will bewitch everyone who comes to your door.
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Witch Hat Luminaries
Add some magic to the top half of your porch with these hanging witch hat lanterns. Getting the hats to levitate is as simple as tying them with fishing line.
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2-Pack Halloween Black Flamingo
GiftExpress
amazon.com
$19.99
Switch out the usual flock of kitschy pink birds for black ones. They're perfect for an entryway.
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Horror Novel Door
Pay homage to your favorite creepy titles with a cool book-spine display. To make it, cut long, thin rectangular pieces of different colored kraft paper and draw titles of books on the paper. Outline the letters with gold paint pens and fill in the outline with a paint pen or gold acrylic paint. Attach the display to your door with double-sided tape.
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Plaid Halloween Porch
Plaid is the signature pattern of fall, which means you can always incorporate it into your outdoor Halloween display. To make the plaid pumpkins seen here, choose two or three colors and add fine lines between the thick ones.
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Tissue Paper Pumpkins
If you're not so crafty with real pumpkins, make some fake ones with tissue paper balls. All you need to do is cut facial features out of black construction paper and glue them on. Keep them under the hood of your porch or hang them in trees on Halloween night (you don't want them to get ruined in the rain).
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Cobweb Entryway
We adore everything about this blush-colored entryway display. But our favorite part is probably the unicorn skeleton in the corner.
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Rainbow Pumpkins
Pick up a trunk-load of pumpkins at the pumpkin patch and paint them a variety of colors for a cool rainbow effect.
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Skeleton Guest
If you've got a bench or rocking chair — or even just a tall stack of pumpkins — sit a skeleton down and affix a crow to his shoulder. You can even put a bowl of candy on the skeleton's lap if you'd like.
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Indoor/Outdoor Pumpkin Pillow
August Grove
wayfair.com
$47.99
Make your outdoor seating space even cozier with a festive throw pillow (or five!). This indoor/outdoor option will pair perfectly with a plaid throw blanket.
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Halloween Wreath
NotableWreaths
etsy.com
$54.99
A cute wreath will be the star of your front door as soon as you hang it up this fall.
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Address Pumpkins
If you've got tons of hometown pride, then emblazon your state and house number on some pumpkins. First, you'll need number stickers, as well as a decal in the shape of your state. Use Fiskar's star punch to mark your location on the state decal. Apply it to one pumpkin and the numbers to another, then use a foam brush to cover both pumpkins with two coats of acrylic paint, allowing 30 minutes of drying time per coat. Remove the decals and you'll have festive pumpkins in a snap.
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Bat Wall Decor
DIYASY
amazon.com
$4.99
These reusable bats will resist water and attach to your garage, door, or siding again and again. Note: Each package contains 120 creepy silhouettes in four different sizes.
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Trick or Treat Banner
Chuangdi
amazon.com
$11.99
Invite costumed kids to knock on your door with a festive banner. A few Command hooks will making hanging (and take-down) a snap — no nails required.
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Fall Berry Wreath
Millwood Pines
wayfair.com
$67.99
Red, green and taupe make up this sweet-looking door decoration. Bonus: You can keep it up through Thanksgiving thanks to the traditional fall palette.
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Mega Spider Web
Fun World
amazon.com
$19.97
This web is 23 feet by 18 feet so it makes a major statement. It's also made out of a polyester blend to help it survive finicky fall weather.
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Dead Plants
In the days leading up to Halloween, swap the healthy potted plants on your front porch for fake ones spray painted black.
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Grim Reaper Halloween Tombstone
Design Toscano
amazon.com
$62.67
Have trick-or-treaters brave a creepy DIY graveyard before collecting their candy.
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Crow Curb Appeal
If your front yard doesn't have any trees to hang ornaments from, create some by planting tall branches into pumpkins. Don't forget to add fake crows to spook your visitors.
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Scary Hanging Bats
Blulu
amazon.com
$14.99
Extend your festive decor beyond your front door with these waterproof black bats. They'll totally pop when hung in a tree full of color-changing leaves.
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Jack O' Lantern Luminary Kit
Luminarias
wayfair.com
$37.99
Instead of turning on a too-bright porch light on Halloween, guide trick-or-treaters to your door with these glowing, battery-operated walkway lanterns.
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Hanging Evil Clown Halloween Decoration
orientaltrading.com
$69.99
Is there anything creepier than a mechanical clown? Nope. Hang this five-foot decoration from your porch to welcome trick-or-treaters in truly scary style.
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Light Up Traditional Pumpkin
halloweencostumes.com
$5.99
Not all Halloween decorations are frightening. This little guy is positively adorable, and would make the perfect addition to your yard.
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Outdoor Inflatable Animated Whimsy Pumpkin Stack
bedbathandbeyond.com
$135.00
There's no doubt that this inflatable pumpkin stack will make a statement in your yard.
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Inflatables Red Eye Ghost with Color Changing LEDs
YIHONG
amazon.com
$52.99
If you're hosting a haunted house, there's no better way to welcome guests than with an inflatable arch. Enter if you dare...
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