Outdoor Halloween Decor Ideas

We All Fall Down

Many people believe that the classic children’s game “Ring Around the Rosie” has a dark interpretation. They believe that the final part of the song – where “we all fall down” – refers to dying. People will think of that song if you set up this easy-to-make display in your front yard. With just a few inexpensive materials, you can create this ghostly scene. If you don’t want your white bed sheets to get dirty from being outside, consider purchasing a length of gauzy fabric from a craft store. This is sure to be much less expensive than using sheets, especially if you use a coupon. After all, you’ll already be at the store to buy the Styrofoam balls for the heads.

Witches Live Here

If you’re looking for an inexpensive but dramatic Halloween decoration idea, look no further than this one. You can often pick up witch’s hats cheaply at the dollar store or at a thrift store. Simply put a battery-powered light inside and hang them up, and you have an instant spooky look. After all, witches don’t really need a place to hang their hats, do they?

Menacing Ghost Mob

If having one ghostly figure in your Halloween decorations is just not enough for you, create a whole mob of them to scare the pants off of any person daring to cross their path. These were originally costumes, but those can be used for an outdoor d?cor too. Create these larger-than-life creepy ghouls and arrange them in a wooded area or throughout your landscaping to create the illusion of ghoulish figures emerging from the darkness to take over. Creating these handmade holiday decorations may take a little more time to construct, so put your DIY Halloween ideas into action early to get the jump on the other neighbors decorations.

Harry’s Hallway

What Harry Potter fan hasn’t dreamed of walking through a great hall with floating candles? Your home may be no match for Hogwarts on a normal day, but it can shine throughout the Halloween season and maybe even beyond. When you see how easy it is to create this look with some of the things you probably have in your home already, you’ll wonder why you never thought of it before. If you’re not keen on having something this elaborate in the main part of your home, consider using the idea to decorate the kids’ rooms.

Chilling Crow Silhouettes Decoration

The crow is an excellent addition to your Halloween decoration ideas. Thanks to the scary role that this bird has played in many spooky movies, the image of the crow instantly makes your outdoor Halloween decorations that much more chilling. Create this murder of eerie crows perched on wooden dowels and suspend them from a porch ceiling to create a creepy and unsettling feeling to the area. You can do it yourself or normally purchase the realistic looking crows that you use for this creepy Halloween craft from some retailers, hobby shops, and from online stores for under $20.

For the Love of Hollywood

This cute sign post points the way to all of your favorite spooky and magical destinations. From Hogwarts to Elm Street, your neighbors will love the way the styles match the styles from the movies. You don’t have to use these specific locations, though. If this isn’t your cup of tea, consider making your own locations, directing people to the hanging gallows, the cemetery, or the psych hospital, perhaps.

Spooky Wreath

Get creative with this simple idea for a Halloween-themed wreath. Your kids could even help roll up the pages and drape it with fake spiders and webs. Of course, you don’t have to stick with the dark and scary look you see here. Instead, you might take the same idea but use a brighter orange color with a pumpkin in the center. It’s the unique idea with the paper that helps this wreath make a statement.

Eyes Are Everywhere

Have you ever had the unnerving and uneasy feeling that you are being watched? Visitors and passer-bys will certainly get that feeling of being watched when you make these eerie eyeballs from glow-in-the-dark foam or construction paper and a marker. Create these eerie oversized eyes and place them throughout your yard and landscaping design. Add these diy halloween crafts to trees, shrubs, or even the side of your home for added creepiness to your outdoor holiday decorations. These eyeballs are perfect for creating a creepy atmosphere especially when they are displayed on trees that line a long driveway or walking path.

Wicked Warning Luminaries

Beware, take care, and enter if you dare. That is the message you will send the trick-or-treaters at your house when you purchase these lighted warning luminaries. Constructed of vinyl with a weather resistant covering, these oversized bags are electrically powered by lighting cords that can be joined end to end for simple installment anywhere in your outdoor Halloween decorating plans. Place these spooky signs at the entry of your drive or to warn visitors of their impending doom when they enter your world of frightening and ghoulish decorations.

Cutesy Critters

Every year, some people complain about the scary decorations scattered throughout the neighborhood frightening the children. It’s a valid concern. If you still want to do something without focusing on the more scary aspects of the holiday, look at this cute little design. With a pumpkin, Frankenstein, mummy, and ghost, it has all of the traditional Halloween characters, but their adorable smiling faces takes some of the fright away. This is the perfect look for a family who has small children who wants to get into the spirit of things.

Give Me a Hand

Now that your annual flowers have died, you can still make use of your pots and planters by putting some body parts into the pots. This unique holder gives some height to the pots, but you can take this idea and use it in a variety of the planters you might have put away for storage. For instance, you could have feet growing out of your window box planters and fingers coming out the holes of a strawberry planter. Pick up these body parts cheaply at a dollar store or Halloween-themed store.

Halloween Hodgepodge

This simple design has just about everything you expect to find around Halloween time – a list of witch’s recipes, a pumpkin, a crow, broomsticks, a skull, and a large black spider – all packed nicely into a single cauldron. It’s relatively easy to make and it doesn’t take up much space, so it’s perfect for those who don’t have a large porch. If you’re just starting to get into the spirit of Halloween and don’t really want to go all-out, this is a nice first step.

Gourdy Ghosts

Add a touch of whimsy to your halloween decorating with these adorable little ghosts created from gourds. To create these little decorative apparitions, simply spray paint some dried gourds with white paint. After drying, paint on their faces using a black paint and your own unique facial expressions. When all paint is dry, a small piece of cheesecloth over the top of the ghosts will give them the illusion of a flowing ectoplasm. Set these halloween crafts on a shelf, as a centerpiece on a table, or in a window to create a spooky display.

Tattered Tormenters

This example of DIY Halloween decorations is an extremely simple and inexpensive way to scare the pants off of your Halloween visitors. Created from simple materials such as a styrofoam ball, a black marker, hanging hooks, and some cheesecloth, this Halloween craft can be constructed in a matter of minutes. Hang these flowing ghouls from trees in your yard or use them to adorn the open areas of your patio or entryway. Regardless of where you decide to hang these floating apparitions, they will sway with the wind in an eerie dance to the Halloween beat.

Haunting Halloween Bag Luminary

Get away from the same old pumpkin carvings to light up your walkways and entryways. For only a few dollars, you can create these original works of DIY outdoor decorations. The materials involved consist of black cardstock, gold iridescent poster board, gold paint, pumpkin faces (you can either free hand or download a template), and battery operated tea lights. Create these highly reflective and spooky bags in a matter of hours and use them to light up any walkway, entryway, patio, or outdoor path. Use these non-flammable luminaries in your halloween house decorations to light up stairways or as a nightlight.

Gruesome Ghost Host

Welcome your guests into your Halloween party with this larger than life cheesecloth ghost. You can create this scary addition to your party with a few materials such as cheesecloth, chicken wire, spray adhesive, some hardware, and a fake skeleton skull. With some time and patience, your Halloween decor will be adorned with this enormously eerie being. Add an old chain and arrange your cheesecloth ghost overlooking your display of food or candy at your next party. This cool halloween idea will keep an eye on your hors d’oeuvres and your candy dish for you.

Halloween Window Silhouettes Decoration

Add extra spookiness to your home decorations with this window scene of spooky elements. Create this chilling scene for only pennies from some black cardboard or card stock. Draw out the images that you desire on the paper or cardboard, cut out with a sharp scissors or box cutters, and attach to the inside of your windows. When the lights in the house are turned on, the cut outs will show eerily against the backlighting. This creative and curious decoration idea is fast, easy, inexpensive, and will dress up any window in your home.

Halloween Tin Can Party Game

Halloween is the perfect time to get the neighborhood together or to throw private parties. When it comes to activities for the party, dust off your creative hat and paint up some tin cans for a ball toss game. Using clean and empty tin cans, paint the outsides of the cans the desired colors for each character. Ideas include a black cat face, a vampire face, a ghost, a pumpkin, Frankenstein head, an owl, and any other character you can envision. Arrange these characters in a pyramid form and get your diy outdoor Halloween party game on.

Spine-chilling Pumpkin Scarecrow

For an over-the-top dramatic effect, give life to this creature that towers high above the heads of your Halloween visitors. This pumpkin scarecrow is the perfect example of how to create an eerie visual focal point in your outdoor Halloween decorating. The stick thin body of this scarecrow is assembled on a tall post and adorned on the top with a lighted pumpkin head. It is covered in black gauze material that flows freely in the breeze, giving it a ghostly floating appearance. An electric powered light in the head will keep this demonic looking creature lit up on the darkest of evenings.

Wicked Pumpkin Scarecrow

Adding this ominous looking character to your Halloween decorating is sure to get a reaction from your party goers. Created from cheesecloth, skeleton hands, and an angry looking pumpkin head, this spooky character is ready to liven up the party. Place this holiday decoration near an entryway to greet your guests or on a porch or patio as an addition to your holiday spread. Tattered edges and a menacing smile make this diy skeleton a convincing scary element in your home holiday decorating ideas. Create more than one frightening creature to add to the creepiness of the party atmosphere.

Wheelbarrow of Bones

A wheelbarrow, some dirt, a few old skeleton bones, and a few carnivorous birds is all that it takes to create this humorous display for your DIY Halloween decorations. Not everyone has an extra vulture sitting around their house, so you may have to purchase one from a local Halloween store, along with a full skeleton and feathered black crow. The dirt or mulch can be found at many home improvement stores and may be readily available from your own yard.

Wicked Witches Brewing Post

When it comes to elaborate and over-the-top decorating, this scene is one of the best. Using some old stripped tree branches as support, attach some cross branches and a cauldron to create the tri-pod for your witches cauldron. Add some red under lighting, some tormented looking pumpkins, hanging luminaries, and a few menacing witches and you have the makings for a witches meeting. Create an eerie mist coming from the cauldron with some dry ice and a battery powered light inside of the pot. Set this display up in a secluded part of your yard for an authentic brewing hideout.

Spying Skeleton Halloween Outdoor Decoration

Trap your visitors attention with this spooky looking skeleton emerging from his broken coffin. Creative back lighting adds a sense of spookiness to the broken down coffin. This addition to your Halloween decorating will add a scare factor to any landscape or graveyard setting. Created from old pallet boards and a plastic skeleton, the trick-or-treaters will not be able to tell that you yourself have brought this evil looking character to life. Enjoy the Halloween season and your lighted yard when you create one or more of these scary coffin skeletons for your homemade Halloween decorations.

Mega Mean Yard Spider

Guard your yard with one of these spider monstrosities. Easily created from PVC piping, a couple of cans of spray foam insulation, black spray paint, some other small accessories, and the handyman’s fix-it-all tool; duct tape. Use the PVC piping and joints to create the legs and skeleton for the spider, packing material for the body base, and spray foam to create the “hairy” texture. Attach the legs to the spider and spray black. Create a number of these spiders in different sizes to give your yard that creepy infested look.

Murder On The Runway

To create a truly horrifying entryway, add this to your holiday decorations list. Guests coming to your door will think twice about entering the scene of the crime thanks to this disturbing floor runner that you created. Using a long length of old sheet or purchased floor runner and some red paint, you can create this murderous display of bloody feet entering your home. Additional drops of paint will lend to the illusion of a murderous scene inside the front door. Trick-or-treaters beware when entering the bloody scene of your diy outdoor decorations.

Spooky Spirit Halloween Jugs

Got milk? Save the empty jugs to create these outside Halloween decorations. This kid friendly project involves the use of empty jugs, a magic marker, a knife or scissors, and a string of white Christmas lights. Have the kids put faces on the cartons and color them in while you cut a small hole into the back of each one. Insert a length of lights from the string into the holes and you have created a fun lighted walkway or border. Kids will be elated to see their creations in lights.

Halloween in White

If you enjoy monochromatic scenes, this DIY Halloween project is for you. With an assortment of light colored or white painted pumpkins and some pattern imagination, you can create this classy outdoor path lighting using carved pumpkins. Create a pattern on each of the painted pumpkins and carve away the unwanted parts. Spray paint the pumpkin shell white and insert white LED lighting to create this fantasy type atmosphere. These pumpkins will give any driveway, walkway, or stairway a polished and dreamlike aura. The bright lighting of the LEDs will deliver a tremendous amount of ambient lighting to your Halloween yard decorations.

Fine Pumpkin Dining D?cor

A Halloween dinner party is not complete without a fabulously ghoulish and original table setting. Use these colorful buckets as part of your creative decorating ideas. Fill the buckets with easy to eat and non-perishable foods and treats to serve to your guests for their monstrous meal. Add a black plastic table cover to catch any spills and create a clean surface. Finish the table off by scattering it with some candy corn and assorted goodies. Chair covers and lengths of Halloween themed fabric tied around the backs will complete the look of your spookily spectacular table setting.

Fairy Tree Hideaway

The weather is turning cold so why not invite the fairies to move into a tree in your yard? Create this realistic looking fairy apartment complex from the selection of fairy tree products and accessories available for sale online and at craft and home improvement stores. Ambitious and artistic DIY creators can create their own unique versions of this whimsical and magical decoration for your trees in your yard. This project has the potential to grow year after year as you add to your fairy tree and the land surrounding your fairies homes. This Halloween d?cor is perfect for those who like to expand their decorations year after year.

Pretty Pumpkin Path

This classy pumpkin path is easy to create with some orange Halloween lights and some lengths of tree branches. Decorate each “tree” with the led lights, making sure to reach all of the branches and around the bases of the trees. When the sun goes down, these lighted mini trees will give your outdoor decorations an ambient glow. This DIY project is inexpensive and the row of orange lit trees gives your outdoor landscape some color and added visual interest. Light a long pathway or create a spooky forest with these halloween ideas that are easy to create and inexpensive decorations.

Glowing Ghost Decoration

Add this sinister looking ghoul to your outdoor decorating ideas. This image will give a fright to all who enter your DIY outdoor halloween ideas. You can create one of these gruesome ghouls with some black material for the body, a foam head, led lights for eyes, and cheesecloth draped over the body. The form is created from old wire coat hangers and formed to your desired position. Add your personalized touch to your ghost by creating more than one of these figures and pose them in different and interesting ways on your property.

Eerie Cemetery Entrance

Transform your entryway to your home into a creepy cemetery entrance with this easy DIY crafty decorating idea. This fabulously freakish holiday decoration can be made for nearly no money at all. Contact your local retailer for some old cardboard boxes to use for constructing the “walls” of your diy cemetery entrance. Paint the exterior with black paint, leaving a few “bricks” showing for depth, and cut an opening in the front for your guests to enter your home. Finish off the project by painting the word “cemetery” over the opening and invite your guests inside.

Comical Cemetery Plots

Add some fun to your Halloween decor with these comical grave sites. Using an old beach towel, some fabric dye, chicken wire or newspapers, fake skeleton limbs, and add some mulch or soil to top off this creative addition to your spooky landscape. Create original sayings for the tombstones or adorn the stones with fake personas and some hilariously famous last words. However you decide to arrange your cemetery, your Halloween visitors will be amused at your halloween decorating. Add some ground lighting to illuminate the area after the sun has gone down when the zombies come out.

Eerie Arachnids

Make all of your visitors itch when they have to walk through your maze of spider sacks. This decorating idea is easy to create with the use of some plastic spiders, some white tight legs, and some stuffing. The addition of the tiny spiders on the inside of the sack and the grouping of spiders at the bottom of the sack lends to the unsettling thought of this massive spider infestation actually being alive. Hang from trees, fences, porches, or windows to create an unforgettably creepy image in your visitors memory of your awesome festive decorations.

Phantom Ghost Posts

Make a bold statement with this ghoulish decorating project. A simple assortment of wooden blocks of different sizes can be painted or whitewashed to create a “block-headed” ghost body. A little black paint to create your own unique creepy facial expressions and you are ready for displaying your new Halloween decoration. Line them up to form a ghoulish border in landscaping or arrange them in groups around a patio or fire pit. These cool holiday decorations can even double as small resting places for guests drinks when they are invited to your Halloween party.

Going Batty Halloween Decoration

Give your trees some scary decorations with these menacing looking hanging bats. Perfect when hung from a tree, a group of these easy to make diy scary decorations will have your visitors ducking for cover. Arrange in a group, or hang them randomly throughout your landscape for an overall spooky feel. Arrange some of these diy decorations in the windows of your home to add to your halloween house decorations. When hung in the windows, these easy to create diy bat silhouettes will appear to be infesting your home with their eerie shadows.

DIY Glow In The Dark Pumpkins

Add this idea to your cool halloween decorations where you are utilizing a black light. These interesting and glowing pumpkins can be created with some imagination and a supply of glow-in-the-dark paints. Show off your artistic abilities with a few pumpkins and a supply of glow paint under a black light. The number of different color combinations and pattern designs are only limited to your imagination. Whether you prefer one theme color or a mixture of all of the colors available, these original decorations will be the focus of the conversation at your Halloween party.

Day and Night Pumpkins

Too many of the Halloween displays that are used are only able to be viewed during the daylight hours. These day and night pumpkins are the perfect answer to this dilemma. Materials for this project consist of light colored or white foam pumpkins, glow-in-the-dark paint, and your choice of vinyl stick on appliqu?s. The process for creating this Halloween decoration consists of painting the pumpkin with the glow-in-the-dark paint, applying the vinyl transfers, and waiting for the sun to go down. Place these pumpkins strategically throughout your landscape for visual interest in your landscape both day and night.

DIY Halloween Pumpkin Balloon Crafts

This Halloween indoor decoration is great for kids parties and limited budgets. The materials involved include a bag of orange pear shaped balloons, some green paper grass (or a paper grass hula skirt available at party stores), and a magic marker. This halloween project are great for the kids to get involved in; especially the blowing up of the balloons! After the kids are out of air, have them draw funny or scary faces on the balloons with the magic markers. With some invisible tape, attach a portion of the gathered green grass to the top for hair and you are ready for party time. The best part about this Halloween DIY decoration is that if one gets broken it is no problem. Enlist another little gobblin to blow up a new pumpkin head.

Google-eyed Gauze Ghost Luminaries

Some of the best DIY outdoor Halloween decorations are those that are the easiest to construct with the fewest materials. These glowing ghost luminaries are one of those projects. With a little gauze, some no-flame or regular candles, and some glued on google eyeballs, you can create your own goofy Halloween lighted jar decorations. These easy and inexpensive decorating elements are perfect for a quiet corner or as a centerpiece on the dinner table. Fast, easy, inexpensive, and child friendly, this is the perfect holiday project for you to call the kids in to help with.

“Fireflies” In A Jar

Summer brings about many changes in nature including the introduction of insects every year. One of the less aggravating of the insects is the firefly. Children have spent countless hours chasing these tiny insects to catch them in jars so they can marvel at their ability to light up in the night. You can recreate this childhood memory in massive style when you create these glow-in-the-dark jars. Use the paint to dab spots of color to the inside of the jars in the pattern and colors of your choice. Fill with water and enjoy the show when the lights go out.

Ping Pong Ghost Lights

To create your Ping Pong Ghost Lights, you’ll need several ping pong balls, a marker, some cheesecloth, glue, and Christmas lights. Ready? OK, let’s go! Start by poking small holes into the ping pong balls with a nail and push your Christmas lights into the space. Using the marker, draw the faces of your ghosts onto the balls and place small pieces of cut cheesecloth into the glue. Next, place the cheesecloth over the balls. You’ll need to let the glue dry, but once you’re done, you should have something resembling a scary ghost. Place your Ping Pong Ghost Lights in bushes or trees to illuminate your front yard on October 31st!

Startled Stray Cat

Add a little scare to your yard or walkway with one of these arched black cat spooky decorations. Made from plywood, landscaping stakes, and paint, this Halloween decoration is easy to create using a downloadable template or free-hand your own version. Easy to trace, easy to cut, easy to paint, and easy to assemble, these holiday decorations are perfect for flower beds, entryways, and even around or in trees and shrubs. Give your Halloween visitors the scare they deserve with these hair-raising black cats protecting your candy bowl on this All Hallows Eve.

Broom Company Sign

Advertise your skill in homemade halloween decorations with this sign for your Halloween art. You can easily create this hanging sign with some lengths of wood, black spray paint, a template for the stencils, some lettering paint, and a few minor pieces of hardware. Create your very own home-based Broom Company sign to give your home the welcoming feel of a genuine witches shopping stop. You can hang this sign on the side of your home, in a window, at the entrance to your property, or wherever witches in need of a new broom will take notice.

Menacing Pumpkin Man

Towering over your Halloween visitors, this addition to your outside Halloween decorations may just cause some trick-or-treaters to be wary. Constructed from simple materials such as a wooden frame, some rope, a few foam pumpkin heads, and black wrap makes this character a very ominous addition to any yard. The long curled fingers and toes give this beast an otherworldly look and lends to the illusion and the height of this member of your scary halloween decorations. Placed on a porch, under a tree, or right in the walkway, this disturbing figure will certainly turn heads.

Creepy and Colorful Cemetery

Who says Halloween has to be all about black and dreary? Fill your yard with these colorful outdoor decorations. Create these headstones from blocks of foam or purchase them pre-made from craft stores and Halloween stores. Add an assortment of different colored floodlights with LED technology. Place the lighting on the ground to create a creepy and shadowy home for your coffin, skeletons, or ghosts to hang out in. These outdoor decorations will light up your landscape and cause passing traffic to stop and take note of your creepy display.

Monster Mail Call Halloween Craft

When it comes to checking the mail, no one does it better than the mail monster. Add this ghoulish looking arm to your mailbox to give the mail delivery person and the street traffic something to think about before opening your mailbox. You can create this menacing looking body part from a rubber monster glove, pipe insulation, newspaper, an old shirt, a dowel, and a few other small items that you can find around your home. This creepy looking arm will extend your Halloween house decorations right to the street, ready to startle all who dare pass.

Shuddersome Spider Webs

These outdoor decorations are an arachnophobia sufferers worst nightmare. With spiders large enough to eat the trick-or-treaters, visitors will beware of ringing the doorbell. Taking Halloween to an extremely large scale with larger than life menacing spiders climbing down the walls, human skeletons wrapped in spider webbing, and lengths of webs spanning the open spaces to the ground, these halloween decorating ideas are sure to draw a crowd. The menacing red eyes of the enormous spiders gives them an ominous look that will definitely deter even the most daring of your Halloween group.

Ghoulish Glowing Glass Luminaries

Light up any scary or spooky corner of your yard or home with an assortment of these glowing luminaries that you can construct for only a few dollars or from materials you may already have on hand. Create an assortment of these glowing ghouls from a few canning jars, some paint, and a candle. Arrange them along a dark path, a set of stairs, or light up a room in your home. These clever lanterns will deliver an ambient glow no matter where you decide to put these fun and easy diy halloween crafts.

Purrrrrfect Pumpkins

This is a sweet twist on the classic jack o’ lantern. Use spray paint to make the pumpkins black, then stack a smaller pumpkin on top of a larger one to create a black cat. The candle inside the head lights up the eyes, creating an eerie glow. Get creative with your use of pumpkins. Your cats can be short and squat or long and lean. Use smaller pumpkins for feet and painted zucchinis for the tails. If you don’t want to worry about the fire, try using flameless tea lights that mimic the look of real candles.

It’s in the Bag

If you’ve got large trees on your property, you’ve undoubtedly spent a lot of time raking up the leaves. Rather than putting those leaves in the garbage or straight to the compost bin, have some fun with them. Fully stuffed bags can make some fun looking ghosts scattered throughout the yard. Instead of marking white bags with black eyes for ghosts, you could also fill black garbage bags with leaves and use yellow eyes to make black cats. This could be a great way to encourage your kids to help with the leaf raking. The more leaves they rake, the more ghosts you’ll have for the yard.

The Witch’s Pantry

Create these awesome bottles to use as a decoration at your Halloween party. With a bit of creativity, empty pill and spice bottles are transformed into containers for the ingredients that any witch will need for her brews. While the bottles look great on their own, you could also fill them up with real ingredients – perhaps small twigs for raven claws and water beads for the eye of newt. This “potion making” can keep your kids occupied for quite a while.

Sweet Sacks of Spiders Halloween D?cor

You will have no problem creeping out all of your Halloween visitors with these frightening hanging spider sacks. Who knew that the legs from a pair of white tights, some plastic spiders, and a baseball could create such an unsettling and fantastic visual impact? Hang these terrifying yard decorations from trees, porches, overhangs, or along fence lines to create a truly creepy crawly feel to your outdoor decorating. Add them to an illuminated piece of landscaping to creep out the night-time visitors who dare to enter your web of creepy, crawly, and disgusting diy decorations.

White Sheets Are So Last Year

If you’d like something spooky but a little different from the traditional ghost made from a white sheet, check out how realistic this ghost looks. Made from clear packing tape, it’s cheap and easy to make, though it does take a bit of time. When it’s lit up by a light, though, the effect is stunning. This type of ghost will look great if you’re creating a graveyard scene in your yard, and it could also be fun to have more than one. You might pose ghosts together as a pair of lovers or as a more sinister duo.

Sinister Black Pumpkins

Create these ominous looking pumpkins with the help of some black spray or acrylic paint to add some additional spooky drama to your diy outdoor halloween decorations. Painters tape will keep the stems of your pumpkins their original shrunken look, while the black paint will lend the perfect background against the lighted inner flesh of your carved pumpkins. Use these pumpkins in your outdoor decorations where the area is the darkest to create a unique illusion from a distance of spooky floating pumpkin faces. Bring out the eerie in your yard with these easy diy creepy additions.

Haunting Hooded Ghouls

These cool Halloween decorations will take the scary element at your house to a whole new level. Created from pieces of wood, a metal pole, some chicken wire, and a few other elements, this eerie creation will send a chill up your visitor’s spines. This larger than life grim form is great as a greeter at your front door for the Halloween trick-or-treaters or set it off to the side as a menacing onlooker. This ominous Halloween decoration may take a little more time and engineering to construct, but the results are worth the time.

Cryptic Coffin

There is just something unsettling about the sight of a coffin in outside decorations. The materials for this awesomely gruesome decoration include pallet boards, orange outdoor Halloween lights, a length of foam or real chain, a rubber hand, and some black paint to create this haunting sight. Lean the coffin up against an outside building or lay it on the ground propped slightly and add some flood lighting for viewing by visitors at night. Wherever you choose to place this DIY Halloween d?cor, the scare factor will still make your hair stand on end.

The Birds

At first glance, this simple design seems like it could be a good solution for those who want to decorate for Halloween without really going overboard or scaring away all of the neighborhood kids. If you’re familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” though, the scene looks a lot more sinister. Best of all, it’s not hard to set up. Simply grab a few fallen branches from your yard and attach fake birds to the branches. Painting the pumpkins without carving them gives a distinctly classy look. For safety, though, consider tying the branches to the porch somehow. Otherwise, the sticks could easily catch on a child’s costume and fall on them.

Sinister Witch and Ferocious Felines Outdoor Decoration

Create this ominous scene with a few materials you may have on hand in your garage or storage shed. Some simple wooden cut outs mounted on long metal poles and painted black will give your sunsets an added spooky beauty. Set these silhouettes on the West side of your property to capture the divine sights of the sunset from these outside decorations. Include some ambient backlighting to these outdoor decorations so you can continue to creep your guests out long after the sun has set with this impressive and spooky decorating idea.

Ring Around The Ghosties

Bring some lightheartedness to your yard when you create this ring of ghosts to add to your halloween house decorations. You can create these cute little playful ghosts from simple materials such as foam mannequin heads, old sheets, metal poles, and a marker. It is as simple as creating a circle of ghosts with the covered poles and tie the edges of the sheets together to form the “holding hands.” In no time at all you will create a group of friendly ghost children “playing” in your yard.

The Walking Dead Beastly Barbies

These are not the same dolls you are used to playing with when you were a child. This new and extremely creepy version of Barbie is created by painting the dolls with an assortment of colors of paint. Using a clothing dye, color the Barbies clothes a brown muddy color. Spray the dolls with white and gray spray paint to give them their “dead” look. Use paint pens and paint to give the Barbies their freshly fed bloody mouths and dark eyes. When dry, redress your zombie Barbies and arrange them in your outdoor Halloween decoration ideas.

Tower of Terrifying Pumpkins

This is the perfect idea for those who aren’t satisfied with carving a single pumpkin – completely frame the door with a wide variety of jack o’ lanterns. There’s a trick to this design idea, though. Using real pumpkins would undoubtedly be too heavy and precarious to safely create the arch. Instead, this homeowner used hallow foam pumpkins from the craft store to carve, then attached them to a frame. Since the foam pumpkins are much lighter, you can really pack them in. You’ll also be able to save the decoration for next year.

Grim Warnings Outdoors Halloween Decoration

Place this ghoulish warning at the entry to your home to ward off timid visitors. You can create this creepy figure with some burlap, chicken wire, skeleton hands, and a convincing styrofoam “stone” warning. Creative painting and artful shading are the key to the success of this ghoulish and terrifying decoration. This cryptic figure will protect your property from tresspassers with his ominous warning. Trick-or-treaters and onlookers alike will marvel at the bold statement that this ghoul makes in a landscape. Night time up lighting will give this creature a whole new look after the sun has left the sky.

Halloween Mummy Madness

Fill your yard and landscape with these whimsical mummy figures. Easy to create from an assortment of wooden structure pieces, a base, polyester fiberfill, muslin, a dowel, a foam head, and spray paint. This mummified creature is created by constructing a body form from the wood, covering it in batting, and wrapping it in muslin. A few touches of grey, black, and green spray paint will give your fossilized form some color and interest. Create a number of these simple mummies to add interest to many different parts of your outdoor Halloween decorations and landscaping elements.