Floating Jack-o’-Lantern’s
If you have hanging lights in your backyard, what better way to dress them up for Halloween than decorating them with paper jack-o-lanterns? This easy addition to your Halloween decor is hassle-free and looks charming.
A Grey Graveyard
If you like your decor to look polished, there’s a way to do it, even for Halloween. If your home lacks outdoor Halloween decor, an easy way to fill it up is by creating your graveyard. Think tombstones, skeletons, and ghosts.
Skeleton Heads
If you love outdoor decorating, this skeleton tree is for you. Enhance any plant or outdoor greenery with these fun but spooky skeleton string decor to make it look Halloween-ready. These can also look great on a staircase railing or above a front door.
Full of Webs
As cliché as it sounds, spider webs never get old when it comes to Halloween decorating. Have fun connecting webs from your plants to your porch and around your other decor pieces. For an extra touch, adding string lights around the webs will evoke a spooky feeling at night.
An Eerie Welcome
Spring has flower wreaths, Christmas has pine tree decor, and Halloween has hanging skeletons! A spooky skeleton is just what you need to elevate your front door.
Bright Pumpkins
For those of you wanting to add an eclectic look to your Halloween decor, you’ll love this display. Vanessa Sanchez made the most of her large yard to go all out with her outdoor decor. “There is a local shop that sells beautiful Mexican tile and pottery. When I saw these pumpkins, I knew they were perfect for my Halloween porch,” she explains. “I added natural elements, like mums and marigolds, plus a fun doormat and wreath to complete the look.”
Spooky and Whimsical
If you like a spooky aesthetic when decorating for Halloween, this whimsical corner idea is just what you need. Halloween queen Jillian Hensel chose traditional pieces in black and orange to really pop against the white furniture. “I made sure to use items with varying textures and heights to add depth,” she explains. “The playful black cats and greenery add charm to the creepy pumpkins for a look that is just spooky enough to be fun, not scary.”
Spidey Sense
“I love lighthearted, playful, and whimsical Halloween decor that has just the right amount of spookiness and isn’t too scary,” says the House of Hood’s Chelsee Hood. For this porch display, she added checkered pillows, pumpkins, spiders up the wall, and an unexpected skeleton in the wooden column of the porch.
Witching Hour
Happy Happy Nester’s Janine Waite spares no restraint when decking out her front porch for Halloween. This display includes a DIY yarn spider web, a collection of local pumpkins, and festive orange twinkle lights. “I used temporary Velcro and fishing line to hang black witch hats from the porch ceiling for a magical touch,” she adds.
Skeleton Greeting
Katrina Laing’s favorite holiday has always been Halloween. “It has always been such a fundamental part of my life, all the way back to my childhood,” she explains. This waving pumpkin man reminds her of the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in Sleepy Hollow, New York, which served as the main inspiration for her decor set—which is complete with a neon spider web and hanging lights.
Witch Property
“Witches were brewing in my head when I spotted these light-up cackling ladies,” says Graceful Home and Hound’s Kimmarie Shafer. To complete this look, she added a bubbling cauldron with a brew of bats and murder of crows. She made sure all who enter know to proceed with caution, as the sign says.
Twinkly Lights
Adding twinkly lights around spooky decorations, as did Balsam Hill on this front porch, can lighten the mood and give your porch a cozier feel. We’re especially loving the branch accents throughout, which give it a rustic look.
Smiling Jack O’Lantern Pots
Using reusable jack-o’-lanterns as pots is the easiest way to spruce up your front porch. These yellow mums, paired with the spider webs along the stair railway, create a welcoming entrance. For the final touch, an oversize spider on the door wraps everything together.
Spider Takeover
For Laura Salter, Halloween decor is always go big or go home. “Our theme was spiders and skeletons for this look,” she explains. “We wanted to make the front of the house look like it was crawling with spiders—on the porch, the banisters, the planters, etc.” The skeletons seemed like a natural addition, she adds, as did a variety of mums and pumpkins for color.
Floating Candles
If you love the movies with Harry Potter floating candles, you’ll want to try this easy DIY project. Happy Happy Nester’s Janine Waite discovered a simple method to make these eerie candles hover from the ceiling. This effect is perfect for the season, and it will make your porch look equally mysterious and magical.
Bewitching Display
Creating any kind of silhouette will give a spooky look to your front porch and easily fill up space. This silhouette of a witch with her pot and cat catches a bigger-than-life shadow in the background. Enter, if you dare!
A Chilling Hello
House flipper and decor connoisseur Carly Jordan loves incorporating fall touches in with Halloween decor. Although they can be pretty similar, adding a waving skeleton and a warning sign at the front of your home will automatically give it the Halloween look. “Mixing and matching all types of things and creating a spooky vignette on a front porch is one of the best things of the season,” she says.
Hidden Skeleton
Skeletons are a quick and easy addition to your bare porch! Placing a boney friend in the corner of your staircase with some pumpkins is the perfect solution for a cute and festive Halloween moment.
Cornstalk Trees
While you’re at it, to lean more into fall style rather than spooky, maybe add some cornstalks on either side of your door to pair with those bales of hay.
Scarecrow Doorman
We’ve covered a lot of skeletons on this list so far, but we can’t forget the eeriness of a well-placed scarecrow. Plant it in your yard or next to your front door. Maybe even give it a costume of its own.
Overgrown Ivy
Transform your home into the abandoned, haunted house in the neighborhood with some overgrown ivy and foliage crawling up your staircase or porch steps.
Oversized Pumpkins
This Halloween, switch out your flowers for pumpkins for an easy, simple, and stylish way to make your front door spooky.
A Corridor of Pumpkins
Why stop at just one pumpkin when you could assemble a small army? Line them up along your front stairs or in front of your door to greet trick-or-treaters before you answer the door.
Haunted Porch
Transform your porch into a mini haunted house with ghosts and skeletons to scare off any visitors, and cob webs and bats to ensnare those that dare approach.
Garlands of Ghosts
There are pinecone garlands and mini pumpkin garlands, but a garland of ghosts can make things especially chilly this time of year. You can even make it yourself with tissues or handkerchiefs.
Witchy Pumpkins
Don’t just stop at carving a face into your pumpkin—add a hat to turn it into a witch. Or maybe even paint it white to make it look like a ghost.
Tunnel of Leaves
If you really want to go the whole nine yards, try covering the walkway to your front door with a canopy of fall leaves. It’s somehow both whimsical and slightly ominous.
Best Friends Forever
A single skeleton is fun and scary—but they can get a little lonely sometimes. Add a skeleton pet to really set a realistically spooky scene.
Jack-O-Lanterns
Don’t just limit your Jack-O-Lanterns to the floor or along your steps. Suspend them from tree branches or ceilings to really give people a fright.
Jack-O-Lanterns and Flowers
Get creative with where you’re placing and arranging your pumpkins. Maybe settle a few in the flower boxes in front of your window, or in your garden, to add a creepy contrast to your flowers.
Mini Skeletons
We’ve got big skeletons, waving skeletons, and dog skeletons already. Now we’re rounding out the list with mini skeletons you can perch on mailboxes, pots, and steps to frighten visitors at every turn.
Don’t Lose Your Head(s)
Accent your fence with a few skeleton heads to set the spooky tone before people even get to your door.