
Are you looking for spooky ways to decorate your garden this Halloween? With every year that passes, more and more people are raising their game when it comes to outdoor decorations. Besides having a pumpkin out front and cobwebs in the house (intentional or not!), decorating your back garden is a great way to creep out your guests.
If youāre looking for an easy DIY project to make your garden the scariest on the block, here are ten creepy outdoor decoration ideas for Halloween.
1. Make a Corpse Rising From the Dead
A quick and easy Halloween decoration idea for your garden is to create a corpse rising from the dead. It takes a few minutes to do and is sure to send the local kids running for the hills!
Hereās what youāll need to make this outdoor Halloween decoration:
- A black cape or sheet
- Two skeleton hands
- A skull
- Black stones or pins (optional)
If itās a windy day, consider using the stones or pins to keep the cape in place.
2. Create a Bat Infested Tree
Horrify your guests and make your trees infested with vampire bats this year! Using string or a cable tie and a set of cut-out bats, you can make your outside trees look like something straight out of a horror movie
Hereās what youāll need to bring this spooky Halloween decorating idea to life:
- Bats (either cut out from paper or plastic shop-bought)
- String or cable ties
- A tree with lots of branches
- A ladder
3. Invite Ghosts
On Halloween, thereās no better way to make your house haunted than by inviting ghosts to visit! Using a few sticks and some thin sheets with eyeballs drawn on, you can create a garden full of floating ghouls ready to haunt anyone that dares to trick or treat!
To make this DIY Halloween decoration for your garden, youāll need:
- A stick (or set of sticks)
- A thin, white sheet
- Black pen or paint
4. Make a Graveyard
Thereās nothing like a garden full of tombstones to petrify your neighbours! Using a few shop-bought tombstones (or making some yourself from cardboard) and some outdoor lights, you can create a spooky graveyard in your garden.
Here are the main things youāll need to make your own graveyard with tombstones:
- Tombstones (shop-bought or make your own from cardboard)
- Outdoor solar lights
- A shovel (to dig them into the ground)
5. Add Zombie Hands to Your Plant Pots
Ditch the plants from your pots and use them for spooky zombie hands instead! This easy DIY Halloween decoration will make great use of any empty pots you have in your front or back garden.
To make this DIY Halloween decoration, youāll need:
- Empty plant pots
- Soil
- Shop-bought zombie hands
6. Make Your Trees a Bag of Bones
If you want to give your party guests heart palpitations, how about hiding skeletons in your trees? Simply break up a full-body skeleton and scatter its remains in a tree to create this spooky look in your garden.
Choosing to create this outdoor Halloween decoration means youāll need to have:
- A full-body plastic skeleton
- A tree (conifers work great for this trick!)
- String (to tie the skeleton in if needed)
7. Build a Grim Reaper
Nothing says Halloween like the lurking presence of a Grim Reaper! Take your outdoor decorations to new levels and build your own angel of death in the back garden.
Making this decoration is more complex than the other ideas on this list. But itāll be worth it for the scares!
Here are the main supplies youāll need to build your own Grim Reaper in the garden:
- A baseboard
- PVC pipe
- Chicken wire
- Black cloth or a cape (if itās due to rain on Halloween, you can use a black tarpaulin instead)
- A scathe
8. Grow Scary Plants
For a Halloween-inspired garden all year round, how about growing scary plants? Plants like Black Delight Violas look like ghastly floating eyes with their black petals and yellow centre. Plus, they have a late Autumn bloom ā making them the perfect garden plants for when trick or treaters come knocking on Halloween.
Some other scary Halloween plants you can plant in your garden include:
- Dollās Eye
- Orange Marigolds
- Japanese Blood Grass
- Queen of the Night Tulips
- Bat Flowers
9. Add Floating Eyeballs
Thereās nothing like the feeling of being watched to send shivers down your spine! Keep your old toilet rolls and grab a pack of glow sticks to make floating eyeballs for your garden. This quick Halloween decoration idea will easily creep you and your guests out at nightfall!
To make this easy DIY Halloween decoration, youāll need:
- Empty toilet rolls
- A pair of scissors
- Glow sticks
10. Build Body Bags
Dead bodies hanging from your trees couldnāt be a scarier sight! These DIY body bags look very realistic and are great for making your garden look spooky on Halloween. If you donāt have a tree, just laying the body bags out on your lawn will be gruesome enough!
To create this Halloween craft idea for your garden, youāll need:
- Large black bin bags
- Lots of newspaper or old clothing (for the filling)
- String
- Tape
- A tree (optional)
- A ladder (optional)
Conclusion
If youāre wondering how to make your garden spooky this Halloween, these top ten DIY ideas are sure to do the trick! Plus, building Grim Reapers and fake body bags are things that can be kept in the loft and used again next year. Just make sure you warn any unsuspecting guests that go up there!