The leaves are falling, pumpkin spice lattes are filling cafés and Thriller is your most-played song. That’s right, it’s spooky season, and in preparation for the big night, it’s time to bring out the outdoor Halloween decorations.
Whether you’re welcoming trick or treaters or hosting a spooky soiree, we have all your haunted home needs with the best outdoor Halloween decorations to leave your visitors scarily impressed. In this article, you can explore our 4 favourite outdoor and garden Halloween ideas and transform your garden into a spine-tingling showstopper this October.
Make a Daunting Doorway
As the entrance to your home, there’s no better way to welcome ghoulish guests than with Halloween door decorations. Depending on the size of your front door or porch, and how much time and effort you want to put into it, your doorway display can be as simple or fanciful as you please.
If you’re looking for easy outdoor Halloween decoration ideas, start with stickers. Buy a pack of our window stickers and attach them, in whatever pattern or arrangement you like, across your front door.
To add to your doorway display, or as a more sophisticated alternative, use the classic doorstep Halloween decoration, a pumpkin. Whether you go for goofy grins or more menacing smirks, a couple of beautifully carved pumpkins are an all-time favourite outdoor Halloween decoration.
Even better, if you want minimal effort, you can forget the carving all together. Simply buy a selection of light-up pumpkins and Halloween outdoor decorations in different shapes and sizes to decorate your outdoor space. Pair your pumpkins with a spooky Halloween doormat to welcome trick or treaters!
If you’re up for more of a DIY project, why not try making a Halloween wreath? You can use an old Christmas wreath and use spray paint to spray it black or orange. Decorate with some autumnal foliage and more Halloween door decorations like themed string lights, cobwebs or even some light-up tinsel spiders.
Bring Your Garden to Life with Horrifying Halloween Inflatables
A surefire way to transform your garden from gorgeous to ghostly is with a couple of Halloween inflatables. One of our most effective garden Halloween ideas, these spooky blow-up characters are sure to get the neighbours talking.
At Homebase, we have a wide range of Halloween inflatables, bound to capture the imagination of trick or treaters that come knocking on your door.
If you’re looking for a scary outdoor Halloween decoration, wake the dead with our Frankenstein inflatable or cast a spell on your neighbours with our wicked witch and cauldron. Simply choose your favourite inflatable, or a few if you’re feeling super spooky, and set them up across your front garden.
You may also want to invest in a timer socket to save energy while keeping your inflatable full and upright throughout the evening.
Give Your Trees and Plants a Halloween Makeover
Our gardens are full of trees, plants and all kinds of foliage that, with a bit of imagination, can become the perfect canvas for some creepy outdoor Halloween decorations.
Decorating a Halloween tree is one of our simplest garden ideas, so pick out a couple of trees or large plants in your back or front garden ready to be spook-ified. Bare-limbed trees are particularly good for that macabre, haunted look.
Experiment by decking the branches with different outdoor Halloween decorations , from tinsel spiders to pumpkin lights that perch on the branches as creepy cobwebs spread across the leaves. As your terrifying trees will likely be most admired in the evening, it’s a good idea to add some Halloween themed string lights to illuminate the gnarly branches.
If you’re looking for some cute Halloween outdoor decorations, try this simple DIY hack. Draw and cut out some googly eyes on a bit of paper and glue them onto wooden stakes. Dig these into the soil and arrange the leaves so the stakes are completely hidden and the eyes peer comically out from your plants. Watch as your plants magically come to life with a fun, dopey expression that’s always a crowd-pleaser.
Create a Petrifying Pathway
Seeking some Halloween decorating ideas to get your garden ready to welcome a street full of trick of treaters? Try lining the pathway up to your door with Halloween outdoor décor and twinkling lights.
You can start by placing pumpkin stake lights into the ground or in plant pots along the pathway, omitting an eerie glow leading to the door. Intersperse these with small, carved pumpkins, creating a creepy walkway leading visitors towards your front door.
If you fancy something a bit more novelty, you could even create a centrepiece with our dancing witch’s hat.
There you have it – our simple outdoor Halloween decorating ideas. If you’re feeling inspired, check out our range of outdoor Halloween decorations today.
