Outdoor Halloween Decorations
for a Fun Porch

Outdoor Halloween decorations for your porch and yard make this holiday a favorite for many. Our grandchildren just love Halloween. Our niece even has her birthday on Halloween. If you love the spooky side of Halloween, we have great ideas for scary Halloween decorations!

We have lots more outdoor Halloween decoration ideas here.
Want some autumn decorating ideas, too?

No matter your age, Halloween can be either a "spooky" holiday or one filled with the brilliance of autumn colors punctuated with craftily carved pumpkins, bales of straw, and colorful mums.

Halloween and Autumn Video

To maximize the effect of your outdoor Halloween decorations, decide on a theme. Have you ever noticed a well decorated porch where every accent provides not only interest but adds to the overall effect? That's the look you want, a cohesive well thought out Halloween decorating theme.

Perhaps you want to create a spooky graveyard complete with ghosts and goblins that haunt the night. Or, a haunted house theme that not only looks scary but sounds it as well.

Once you've settled on a theme, here are some more general ideas for outdoor Halloween decorations to make your house the talk of the neighborhood.

• Consider the size of your porch and yard. If it's rather small in size it may not be right for a haunted house simply because not enough room.
  
  
  
  

• Don't try to crowd too much into a small space as it won't usually have the effect you want. Rather, try some simpler ideas (less is more).




• If you have a large porch you may opt to have more than one theme: one scary and the other autumn decorations intertwined with Halloween decorations. Use your yard to create a graveyard or similar scene that leads to the haunted porch. We have some great outdoor decoration recommendations for these below.
• No matter the size of your porch, lighting can have dramatic effects. Use low lighting but make sure the area is safe. You can use Halloween lighting on the railings or under the eaves of your porch.

What a fun way to use colorful ears of corn, autumn leaves and a mini pumpkin.

Notice the lantern and cute jack-o-lantern pumpkins

We found a really neat gardening blog authored by "Dirt Princess". After having to toss out the fresh pumpkins on her porch due to high humidity, she came up with the idea of putting foam pumpkins on the porch.

She marked "BOO" on these pumpkins in fancy writing using permanent markers. Aren't they so cute?

And better yet, she wrote a fancy monogram on the backside of the middle pumpkin. So when Halloween is over, she can just turn the pumpkins around and they can last through Thanksgiving!

Thank you Ms. Dirt Princess for your wonderful gardening blog. Love it.

Mums not only are great for fall but work well for Halloween as well. You can place them strategically on steps, railings, or even in hanging planters. Don't forget Casper the friendly ghost. Not all Halloween caricatures have to be ghouls. Use happy ghosts and other figures to give your porch a fun new look.

Decorate around your existing items. This birdhouse takes on a different appeal surrounded by pumpkins.

Create seating areas with bales of straw or use them for tables and decorate with pumpkins and other objects.

Again, lights can play a major role. Use them to highlight your Halloween decorations. Spot lights with blue or even black lights will do the trick.

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