15 Easy Outdoor Halloween Decorations to Scare Trick or Treaters

Halloween is super fun – I love this time of year! If Trick or Treating is popular where you live, you might want to jazz up the front of your house to reflect your love of the Halloween Season.

Here are some easy Outdoor Halloween Decorations that are pretty easy to make yourself or cheap to buy!

1. Cowboy Skeletons

These are so very Australian and apart from finding a couple of plastic skeletons, should be pretty easy to put together!

Two skeletons with hats and bandanas sitting on hay bales for Halloween decor. — Via Pinterest

2. Got a Drain Outside Your House?

IT is super scary – and the yellow raincoat and red balloon is iconic – so this little scary number is pretty easy to put together yourself!

Spooky Halloween scene with a person in a yellow raincoat lying on the street, creating a scare for. — Image via Bored Panda.com

3. Keep Out!

With a few fake Tombstones, a few keep out signs and some faux slime, this is a great way to keep Trick or Treaters OUT!

Haunted house door decorated with "Keep Out" tape, tombstones, and ghostly figures for Halloween sca.

4. Faux Graves

Grab some faux tombstones and some mulch and arrange them into tiny little graves on your front lawn. A ‘Beware of the Zombies’ sign is cool too.

RIP Tombstone Halloween Decorations with straw-covered bodies. — Image via Pinterest

5. Hang Some Bats from a Front Tree

Grab some of these fake bats and hang them from a tree in the front yard!

Outdoor Halloween bat hanging decorations for trick-or-treaters.

6. Witches Coven

Using some old plastic bags and rubber bands, you can make a scary Witches Coven surrounded by a faux bonfire.

Group of ghostly Halloween figures around a glowing firepit at night. — Image via Youtube

7. Got a Wheelbarrow and a Skeleton Lying Around?

This one is so easy to put together – that you don’t even have to put it together!

Eerie skeleton decorations in a wheelbarrow for outdoor Halloween decor. Perfect for creating a spoo.

8. Turn Your Front Yard into a Cemetery

So effective. Most of these faux tombstones are made from polystyrene but you can buy them online from places like Catch.

Halloween graveyard with tombstones and spooky decorations in front yard.

9. Crazy Scary Pumpkin Monster

Want to really scare the kids in your neighbourhood? This Pumpkin Monster will do it!

Scary Halloween outdoor decoration with a tall, dark figure holding pumpkin lanterns in a wooded are.

10. Monster Mud Reaper

Another simple, but effective and terrifying Front Lawn Monster!

Creepy ghost figure holding a lantern for outdoor Halloween decorations. — Image via Instructables.com

11. Hard Work Will Kill You – Eventually

Here is a great way to use a mower that doesn’t work!

Skeleton yard decoration with a sign saying "Bone Tired! Yard Work is KILLING Me!". — Image via Pinterest

12. Pretty Halloween

If you don’t want to do scary, there are some pretty Halloween ideas… if you must go there..

Outdoor Halloween pumpkin display with mums and pumpkins. — Image via Pinterest

13. More Pretty Halloween Decorations

Pretty – pretty boring!

Festive Halloween porch with pumpkins, witches hats, and autumn plants. — Image via Pinterest

14. Black Trees of Doom

Grab some old tree branches and wrap them with loads of Christmas Fairy Lights for this simple but cute Halloween Decoration for your front yard.

Outdoor Halloween pumpkin decorations with lights for a spooky trick-or-treating atmosphere. — Image via Pinterest

15. Wicked Witch of the West

Creative and unique!

Halloween wreath with skull, pumpkin, and witch hat on front door. — Image Via Pinterest

How are you going to decorate your front yard this Halloween?

Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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