Front Yard DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Halloween is the perfect time to get creative and bring some frightful fun right onto your front porch. With some homemade outdoor décor, you can turn your front yard into a scary scene that will impress trick-or-treaters and wow your neighbors. From creepy lighting and handmade tombstones to ghostly figures and pumpkin displays, you don’t need to spend a fortune to make a big impact. It is simply a question of imagination, simple materials, and the Halloween spirit!

1 — Yard Monsters

If you have a yard with trees and bushes, this outdoor project is for you. Rather than putting spider web all over them, which is difficult to take off and awful for the environment, try these yard monsters instead. Akin to the Cookie Monster and Halloween mashed together, this project can be kid-friendly (although adults handle the glue gun) and can be reused year after year. The eyes are made from foam disc cutouts (think Googly eyes in giant form). With black and white fabric making up the eyes. It’s easy to customize to your taste and yard size. 

2 — Halloween Skull Yard Signs

These skull yard signs look cool, but there is definitely time, energy, and effort put into them behind the scenes. This is a great project for people who have experience in woodwork or have an extensive toolshed. If you have a fog machine, use it to make your yard even more graveyard-authentic! 

3 — Halloween Coffin Prop

Not much can top creepy this Halloween than a glowing coffin (eek!). Made from cut-out plywood panels, wood planks, hinges, paint, and an LED light strip, this DIY Halloween project is definitely going to take your decorated yard up a notch. 

4 — Packing Tape Ghost

It’s hard to find a house that doesn’t have three rolls of half-done packing tape. Help get rid of that by making this packing tape ghost. In three words, it’s transparent, strong, and eerie. Get into the “spirit” of Halloween by hanging this translucent ghost from any ceiling, tree, or post. Try to light it up from underneath for an even eerier vibe. 

5 — Ghost Leaf Bags

If you’re not ready to get rid of the endless amount of trash bags filled with fall leaves from your yard, try making them into ghosts by adding black cut-out eyes and propping them up around the yard. Easy, kid-friendly, and customizable! 

6 — DIY Halloween Lawn Gravestones

These gravestones are really cool but be warned that they take woodworking experience and knowledge and are definitely not a kid-friendly project. However, they will take your yard to the next level (or the grave!). 

7 — DIY Halloween Witch Decor

These witches are perfect for a yard because they’re in theme, but not so scary that they will deter away young trick-or-treaters. Made from spray paint, empty bottles, and fabric, these witches are easy to make and easy to assemble. Now all you need is candy to hand out! 

8 — DIY Tomato Cage Ghosts

Make your yard spooky and festive with this easy DIY tomato cage ghosts tutorial! Using simple supplies like a tomato cage, styrofoam ball, lights, and a white sheet, you can create glowing ghosts that stand out day or night. Add faces and pair them with pumpkins, hay bales, and fall plants for the ultimate Halloween display.

9 — DIY Halloween Cemetery Picket Fence

If you’re looking to do something different with your yard this year, try adding a graveyard fence! Made from PVC pipe and scraps of wood, you can add in skeleton hands and some DIY gravestones or ghosts behind it to complete the theme. 

10 — DIY Halloween Yard Sign

This yard sign is a great way to celebrate your favorite scary movies. Made from scrap wood and paint, this yard sign gives way to let your creativity and design skills shine! Lead the way! 

11 — Sequin Pumpkin

Wanting to go more glam than scary? By just gluing on sparkly sequins, you’ve now got some chic and pretty DIY sequin pumpkins.