Cast a spooky spell over the whole neighborhood this fall with these easy DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
Monster Wreath
Create a DIY monster wreath that’s a little cute and a little creepy.
Stagger pumpkins of different sizes and colors across your porch steps or line a walkway with these spooky faces.
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Grabbing Ghoul Walkway
Sets of ghoulish hands and well-shaded cracks create the ultimate optical illusion.
This macabre feature will both spook and delight trick-or-treaters who must traverse the path to get their candy.
Buy some giant googly eyes and attach them to wooden dowels or skewers using hot glue or strong tape.
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Stake them in your bushes or plants for a funny monster effect in any garden.
Boo-tiful Doormat
Halloween decorations go way beyond pumpkin carving with this boo-tiful fall porch decoration.
Craft your own design or use a craft store stencil to make a DIY doormat for your threshold.
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Supersized Spiderwebs
These supersized spiderwebs would go gruesomely with your giant furry spiders.
Create ajewel-tonedwreath fit for Halloween with orange, purple, and black ornaments.
Swap your carving knife for paintbrushes this year and create painted pumpkins instead.
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Copy these owl-inspired DIY outdoor Halloween decorations or come up with your own bewitching design.
Search for decorative mice at your local craft store and paint them black for an eerie effect.
Behemoth Bats
These larger-than-life bats are eclectic, easy-to-make DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
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Cold Hands Wreath
You’ve heard of cold feet, but how about cold hands?
This wreath is simple but stands out among other Halloween door decorations.
Apply a few even layers of silver spray paint to nine plastic skeleton hands.
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Write a spooky phrase in the center with chalk, then hang the wreath with string.
Hammer craft nails around the edges of your shapes, leaving the nails slightly above the pumpkin’s surface.
Witchy Foliage Garlands
Classicfall foliagetakes on a witchy look when painted an unnatural color.
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Gray-painted garlands look drained of life and create an ultra-spooky effect when combined with faux cobwebs.
Skeletons with a Wild Twist
Make a pile of pumpkins a little scarier with faux animal skeletons.
This raven, for example, contrasts nicely with a pile ofpretty painted pumpkins.
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Paper Bag Lanterns
These outdoor Halloween luminarias are super simple and a great project for kids.
Choose battery-operated tea lights for fret-free lighting on Fright Night.
Rat Invasion
The only creature more eek-worthy than a mouse is a rat.
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Cut out the wood rats, sand them, and paint them black.
Your yard will look likeRatatouillemetThe Walking Deadwhat’s more creepy-crawly than that?
Burlap Bat Wreath
This festive Halloween wreath is the perfect blend of spooky and stylish.
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Cut a clothesline into pieces to fit your design and singe the ends of each piece to prevent fraying.
Use hot glue to attach the clothesline pieces over the chalk lines for a quick and easy DIY project.
Pumpkin Messages
Send a spooky message with style this Halloween.
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Repeat with orange and black paint to create a smiling jack-o'-lantern for a pair of seasonal characters.
An Unkindness of Ravens
One bird: Not a big deal.
A whole flock of them?
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Well, that’s an unsettling assortment of DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
Secure the faux birds with cable ties and black duct tape.
Fall-Textured Pumpkins
DIY outdoor Halloween decorations don’t have to be overtly scary.
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Stack several white pumpkins atop each other with clumps of dried moss or straw between each gourd.
Mummy Wreath
Looking for the quickest of DIY outdoor Halloween decorations?
This wreath can be wrapped up in minutes.
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Bats in the Bushes
This funbat decorationwill ominously animate your bushes with colonies of airborne creatures.
Enlarge and trace our printable bat pattern onto black foam-core board, then cut out the shapes.
Situate the cackle-worthy creation by your front door for a creepy and campy display.
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Add props to create an elaborate scene, such as incorporating decorative gravestones in the spooktacular setup.
While it dries, create a “poison” label to attach to an empty bottle.
The key to creating this scary scene is a combination of tissue paper and card stock.
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Cut bright-colored tissue paper to fit your windows and set aside.
Cut outlines of hands and feet from black cardstock, then attach the hands to the bright tissue paper.
Turn on your interior garage lights for an eerie glowing effect at night.
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Greet trick-or-treaters with a trio of foam wreaths wrapped with alternating white, orange, and yellow yarn.
Let them dry, then remove the stems from the middle and bottom pumpkins.
For the fence posts, 3-inch-wide tape works best.
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For the cross sections, use 2-inch-wide tape.
Creepy Coquettish Wreath
Creepy meets coquette in this elegant Halloween-themed wreath.
Ever-Watchful Eyes
These unblinking eyes are sure to make trick-or-treaters do a double take.
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Grab pairs of plastic foam balls in varying sizes and draw on large pupils with a permanent marker.
Use painters tape to mark off stripes, painting the exposed part of the pumpkin with black acrylic paint.
Trace letters or words onto the gourds and use a small brush to fill them with paint.
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Let the paint dry, then create evenly spaced holes in the striped sections using a largedrill bit.
Arrange the snakes at the edge of a thick plastic foam board and hot glue them in place.
Set the board underneath your doormat for one of the most scream-inducing DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
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Hanging Jack-o'-Lanterns
Light your sidewalk with a lineup of DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
Set the smaller wreath inside the larger one, offsetting the two so they almost touch on one side.
Wrap with electrical tape until the crescent shape is complete.
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The outdoor decor is finished with a few logs and a cozy blanket.
Use battery-powered flickering lights to give the “fire” a realistic look.
Skeletons from Another Century
Gather a group of skeletons from generations ago to act as yard greeters.
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Give them an even more old-timey effect with musical props or croquet mallets.
Yarn Web Wreath
Kids will love creating this whimsical DIY wreath with a hidden surprisespiders!
Chilling Carved Crows
Try a different pumpkin carving technique with these crow-themed DIY outdoor Halloween decorations.
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Stagger the pumpkins on the porch or in the yard, finishing the display with a few faux crows.
Mummy Statues
These DIY outdoor Halloween decorations take unsettling to a new level.
Paint a few elongated gourds white and add haunting expressions with black paint.
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Suspend the gourds from the rafters using fishing line so they hang down among the vines.
Look for white or cream-colored gourds to skip the initial painting step.
Village Wreath
Put a spooky spin on classic Christmas village decorations with this charming Halloween wreath.
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Blow up a few balloons, then draw eyes on each using a black marker.
Stuck-in-the-Soil Skeleton
Spruce up your garden bed with a skeleton stuck in the soil.
Cut it into an irregular shape, then paint it with gray paint.
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Use white and black shades to mix with the gray to paint streaks for texture and dimension.
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