10 Spooky Halloween Yard Decor Ideas

• Fake crime scene tape
• Stakes
• Soil
• Fake blood
• Plastic skeleton

How to make it:

1. Lay plastic skeleton on ground and partially cover with soil.
2. Splatter fake blood around.
3. Hammer a stake into each corner of your crime scene.
4. Drape ‘Crime Scene’ tape around stakes.

Extreme Pumpkins

What you’ll need:

• Large pumpkin
• Old clothing
• Newspaper or straw
• Hatchet
• Plastic hand

How to make it:

1. Carve pumpkin into vicious-looking jack-o’-lantern.
2. Stuff clothing with newspaper or straw and lay out so the neck of the shirt is in the mouth of the jack-o’-lantern.
3. Place the hatchet in the plastic hand in the sleeve near the pumpkin to give the impression that the victim tried to defend himself.

Listotic

What you’ll need:

• Black craft foam
• Fishing line
• Scissors or craft knife
• Fake eyes
• Holepunch

How to make them:

1. Trace outline of bat onto craft foam and cut out.
2. Stick eyes to bat.
3. Punch hole in bat.
4. Tie bats to trees with fishing line.

Kid’s Kubby

What you’ll need:

• Glass jars
• Acrylic paint
• Sponge
• Paintbrush
• Black Sharpie

How to make them:

1. Paint base coat inside jars with sponge and wait for it to dry.
2. Once it has dried, add details to the outside with either a Sharpie or paint.
3. Insert a tea-light candle or you can use a string of lights to illuminate multiple jars.

Celebrations

What you’ll need:

• Plain doormat
• Adhesive stencil film
• Multi-purpose heat tool or X-ACTO knife
• Black acrylic paint
• Stencil brush

How to make it:

1. Print out “BOO” letters. Place adhesive stencil paper on top of each letter and cut around the letter using an X-ACTO knife or multipurpose heat tool to create a stencil.
2. Peal adhesive backing off of the stencils and adhere to the doormat.
3.  Use a stencil brush to add two to three coats of paint. Allow to dry before peeling off stencils.

Fun Holiday Crafts

What you’ll need:

• Small glow-sticks
• Balloons
• Stockings

How to make them:

1. Put small glowsticks in balloons.
2. Fill the balloons with water.
3. Slide the balloons into stockings and hang them from your trees.