Outdoor Halloween Decoration Ideas

Need some inspiration for your Halloween yard decorations? Here are some ideas to get your juices flowing and put you on your way to having the creepiest house on the block.

Choose from creepy inflatable Halloween decorations, haunted graveyards, Halloween tree decorations, and cool Halloween lights.

You can get very creative with a Halloween yard display centered around just a couple of figures. You could rummage through the attic or garage for props to dress them up with. For example, here’s a cool Halloween display of a corpse bride / Frankenstein’s monster.

I’m sure the happy couple is wearing thrift store wedding garb — the bride is working that hat, isn’t she? You could buy a bouquet of dried flowers for the bride, or just use some that you might already have around the house.

 

 

 

Here’s a unique way to decorate a tree in your yard. They simply used orange string to tie 2 1/2-inch plastic jack-o-lantern candy buckets all over the tree, which kind of makes it look like an orange tree. This idea would work best in a dry climate where there’s little chance that the buckets would fill up with rain and weigh the branches down. You could achieve a similar effect with these light-up pumpkin lanterns that come with plastic hooks.

 

 

 

A creepy graveyard guardian keeps watch over this Halloween cemetery. Adding animated figures and tombstone huggers is a great way to polish your graveyard and make it look less “homemade” and more professionally done.

 

This photo shows how having the right lighting for your Halloween graveyard makes all the difference. Here, they use a green floodlight in a floodlight stake to up-light the tombstones.

 

 

 

Here’s another Halloween graveyard — this one using an orange lighting effect. I like how they used diverse tombstone sizes and shapes to fill up the entire front yard.

 

 

 

 

This macabre display is simple but effective. It’s a bloody guillotine, with a basket of spilled bones and body parts nearby.

 

 

 

Halloween Inflatables

 

 

You could center your Halloween yard display around one large Halloween airblown inflatable decoration, and then play off that theme with smaller accessories. These Halloween inflatables are self-inflating and weather resistant. They also light up, so they’ll be visible at night.

This animated inflatable Halloween train features a skeleton engineer who waves his arm, a ghost that pops up from behind the gravestone, and a vampire that rises out of the coffin. You could play off of any of those themes (skeleton, ghost, vampire, coffin) for the surrounding outdoor decorations.

 

Here are some other unique Halloween inflatables. How about an animated skeleton playing a pipe organ (with spooky music), or a Grim Reaper horse-drawn carriage with an animated reaper?

Halloween Inflatable Skeleton Playing the Organ

Halloween Inflatable Grim Reaper Carriage

You can wow the neighborhood year after year with these cool inflatable Halloween decorations. Just be sure to store them in a proper decoration bag to protect them when not in use.

 

Spider Halloween Decorations

This simple display features giant spider strategically placed on the deck rail, surrounded by small pumpkins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mama and baby inflatable tarantulas on the rooftop are a frightful sight.

 

 

 

 

 

I never thought anything spider-shaped could be beautiful, but these Halloween spider lights are kind of pretty.

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking of string lights, why not experiment with color changing ghost string lights, skull string lights, or other Halloween shapes.

So there you have it. Plastic jack-o-lanterns as tree ornaments, spider lights, guillotines and graveyards are just a few of the ways you can spice up your outdoor Halloween decorations this year.

 

* All photos from Flickr users via Creative Commons license.