Impress trick-or-treaters with our best Halloween porch decor ideas.
We’re sharing our favorite front porch Halloween decorations, including DIY wreaths, carved pumpkins, and more!
Create your own portal into anenchanted forest by placing broomsticksin planters and lining your front walkway with faux mushrooms.
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Adorn your entryway with moss, pumpkins, and a DIY owl to complete the look.
Pastel Halloween Porch Decor
Not all Halloween porch decor has to be orange and black.
Usepastel-colored pumpkinsand neutral wreaths for a playful front porch.
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Create an arch around your door by using plastic pumpkins and PVC pipe.
Paint them pink and white for cuteHalloween porch decor.
Place the toads sporadically up your front steps next to pumpkins and broomsticks to achieve this fun look.
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DIY Bat Display
Make a statement with yourHalloween decorby crafting oversize bats.
Use plastic hangers, black garbage bags, and faux fur to make the bats.
Attach them to the front or side of your house with exterior adhesive strips.
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Halloween Porch Seating
Porch swingsare a favorite option for outdoor seating.
Then add black birdcages and fake owls to the front steps.
Then, use orange pumpkins and white mums to line the walkway to your home.
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Finish with matching wreaths.
Use stencils to carve pawprints and dog bones into pumpkins, and display them by your front door.
Fill in with planters of fall foliage and pumpkins of various sizes.
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Harvest Porch
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Make your home harvest-ready by flanking your front door with cornstalks.
Enhance your Halloween porch further with stacks of pumpkins and a fall-theme door mat.
DIY Crows Nest
Gather a murder of crows at your door for a spooky Halloween front porch.
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Fill out the front steps with black lanterns, pumpkins, and urns filled with mums.
Fill your stand with pumpkins, wooden crates, hay bales, and potted mums.
Fill out the look with hay bales and the muted tones of heirloom pumpkins.
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String beads and felt poms to create a simple and sweet garland.
Wrap sisal rope around letter frames to craft an alarming welcome message to your door.
DIY Spiderweb
Giant spiderwebs instantly give a charming front porch a haunted house look.
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Made with braided yarn, these large webs can be reused year after year.
Stretch spiderwebbing along the railing.
Large urns holding a tower of artificial pumpkins add height to the front door display.
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Stick wreaths and a collection of pumpkins and mums round out this scary Halloween porch idea.
Group the pumpkins on your porch steps and adorn a few with jute orgingham bows.
Add pots of fall flowers or decorative vegetables and grasses to complete this delightful Halloween porch decor idea.
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Spray paint real or artificial pumpkins.
We used artificial pumpkins so they can be used again and again.
Wrap yarn around foam wreath frames to create this bright trio of wreaths.
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Print a message and affix each word to a wreath.
DIY Black Cats
Treat yourself to a crafternoon!
This fall front porch design is made with a couple of easyHalloween DIY projects.
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Cut out the cat silhouettes on medium-density fiberboard and spray paint them black.
While they are drying, craft the crescent moon with two metal wreath frames.
Use yellow electrical tape to secure the frames in this offset design.
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Then wrap the tape around the crescent as desired.
Finish the look with black gauze and a few paper stars on the door.
Hang your ghosts with fishing line from the porch ceiling.
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Dress up a stick wreath with artificial leaves.
Use urns, metal bins, and hay bales to create layers of color with pumpkins and fall flowers.
For a subtly spooky effect, string a giant spiderweb across the front porch.
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Plaid and vintage graphic print pillows soften the look.
Fill out the front porch for Halloween with avariety of pumpkinsand a wooden sign.
Black & White Halloween Porch Decor
Pack a punch with a crisp black-and-white color scheme.
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Small dollops of orange pop against this sharp Halloween front porch.
To create the tower of urns and pumpkins, drill a hole through the center of each item.
We recommend using artificial pumpkins.
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Then place a dowel through the center and secure the urns and pumpkins in place with adhesive.
Garland and black and white pumpkins finish this smart and spooky Halloween front porch look.
Ghost Lights
When the sun goes down, turn up the scare factor on your front porch.
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Strands of orange lights and a large illuminated paper lantern create an eerie night sky feel.
Country Pumpkin Porch
This front door design looks like it’s fresh from the garden.
Dried (or artificial)hydrangea bloomslook great in tall metal urns or bunched together on a grapevine wreath.
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A cornucopia of pumpkins and gourds spill out of baskets and are stacked together for an abundant harvest feel.
This charming country look works well all season long.
Decorative grasses add height and texture to this bright floral display.
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Mix in a variety of baskets and metal bins for interest.
Finish by tucking small pumpkins around the base of the flower pots.
Use hay bales to hold pumpkins and add a farm-fresh feel.
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A jute rug and jute ribbon on the wreaths add to the natural beauty of thisfall front porch.
Bat Door Decorations
It’s easy to create this frightfully spooky front door display.
Trim a roll of solid wrapping paper to fit your door.
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Cut out bat silhouettes from black contact paper.
Attach bats to the wrapping paper as desired and hang the paper on your front door.
Line the front steps with mums and pumpkins for the perfect finishing touch.
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Simple Halloween Porch Decor
Simple swaps can take your front porch from summer to fall.
Replacecolorful throw pillowswith a black and white patterned pillow.
Dress a side table with a black decorative painted pumpkin and a lantern.
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These accessories are easy to update each season.
An antique trunk serves as a charming farmhouse-style coffee table.
Ghost Porch Decor
It’s spooky how easy this Halloween porch decor is to recreate at home.
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First, forage for branches and spray-paint them black.
When dry, hang them with fishing line.
Next, paint small gourds white, and add facial shapes with black paint.
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Finally, attach or hang the gourds to the branches with fishing line.
Finish off the look with a bench and bursts of orange.
Monstrous Halloween Porch Idea
Jack-o'-lanterns don’t have to be scary.
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Instead of carving, trypainting fun monstersonto your pumpkins this Halloween.
Use a variety of shapes and colors to achieve a playful look.
Place them on your front steps or porch next to mums in complementary colors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Most people decorate during the first two weeks of October.
However, some people start in late September, when the temperature begins cooling down.
It depends on your mood, the scale of the decorations, and the weather.
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Fall decorations come in a wide range of colors inspired by the changing colors of the leaves.
Heavy-duty suction cups work great on smooth surfaces, like glass and metal.
Rope and wire works well for hanging decorations from trees.
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And double-sided tape can be useful when securing decorations to windows and doors.
