13 Bewitching Halloween Porch Decor Ideas

You can deck your entire house with Halloween decorations, shower them in your garage, plant them in your garden, and still fail Halloween if your porch is empty. 

The good news is that there’s still enough time until Halloween arrives, leaving you the perfect opportunity to start thinking about porch decor ideas. 

If your plans are already in motion and you’re looking for inspiration that complements your current ideas, the following list can help you find the perfect addition to bring your vision to life. Let’s get started!

Potion Station

You may think that this one may blow your cover, but hey, it’s Halloween. No one will know. It’s the best time to leave your secret potions out there for the creatures of the night. 

Set up a small table on the porch with your best-selling potions on display. Make sure to mark them so your customers don’t make their lover drink the sleep tonic instead of the love elixir. 

For this, fill up the old glass jars in your house with water and add a few drops of food coloring. You can also add minced vegetable peels, glitter, or pencil shavings to make them look mysterious and perfectly mask your witchy trade with Halloween decor.

Creepy Doll Collection

You can’t stand outside the house all day to welcome your guests, right? So why not send your army of dolls to do that? 

With Halloween just two months away, now is as good a time as any to dig up those old dolls stacked in your attic. If they don’t look disheveled already, make them. Mess up their hair, apply red paint for blood-streaked faces, and even tear holes in their dresses. 

Then, when your army is ready, assign each of them a position on your porch. Place one on the chair outside your door, another on the swing, and another hanging from the tree. I can bet you that people will be looking twice or maybe thrice to make sure one of them didn’t just blink their eyes or move an inch closer to them. 

The Broomstick Parking Lot

Now, now, wouldn’t it be impolite to leave your guests hunting for parking space when they’ve come all this way to visit you? This is why you absolutely need to put this idea into practice!

Don’t worry, this won’t take much of your time. Grab your broomsticks and place them under the sign that reads “Broomstick Parking Lot.” Your guests will be thanking you for this favor. 

Gory Handprints

Want people to know that no one can leave your house once they enter? There’s no better way of getting this message across than by leaving the bloody handprints of your victims on the door, railing, walls, and anywhere they can be most visible. 

Opt for removable paint or decals so that once the Halloween season is over, you can return to your disguise of being a normal human being again.

Skull Planters

Yes, lush green plants are great, but we’re midnight creatures. We don’t grow fresh flowers or anything with color anywhere near our house. 

Skull planters are an excellent alternative to this because nothing says, “This could be you,” than the skulls of your victims lined up around the porch. 

You can either leave it at that or load the planters with black roses, spiders, slime, red liquid, etc., to make your burial ground look even more haunting. 

Spider Web Cloaked Trees

If your house is surrounded by trees, plants, or shrubs, this one’s for you. Why let them stay pure when everyone and everything else is going over to the spooky side? 

Cloaking them with spider webs that spread from one end to another is the easiest way to change that. Of course, there’s a chance that these webs may not be visible at night, especially if you don’t have any outdoor lighting. 

Hiding glowing monster eyes in them is an excellent way to avoid this. For extra dramatic effect, you can choose flickering eyes over ones that stay on permanently and send shivers down the spine of anyone who dares to knock on your door.

Creepy Apothecary Jars

This is the house of the mad scientist! If you don’t want to proclaim this message through a signboard, the next best alternative is to decorate your porch with creepy apothecary jars. 

Anyone who passes by will know that their fate will be just like that of Frankenstein’s monster if they dare to enter your premises. 

To implement this idea, you’ll need old glass jars filled with colorful water, plastic eyeballs, bat wings, fingers, and anything that screams creepy, and place them on the steps of your porch.

The Witch’s Cottage Sign 

What better way to keep muggles away than by warning them beforehand that the territory they’re entering is the witch’s cottage? 

To make your sign, you’ll need black paint and a piece of wood shredded along the corners. Allow the paint to drip while you fill the letters for a distressed and cheeky vibe, and there you have it! 

You can nail it to your door or the posts attached to the porch so that it’s visible to all, so anyone who ignores it will be walking to their demise.

Tombstone Walkway

How do you tell people that you’re the greatest villain that ever lived? Easy! You mount the graves of every person you’ve ever killed along the walkway leading them to your porch. 

Instead of going for the traditional practice of writing names on the , you can make your text clever and entertaining. Some examples include “Here Lies the Rat Who Ate My Cookie” or “RIP: 3 AM Cravings.” Let your prey enjoy their last laugh before they knock on your door. 

Creepy Crawlers

Just as Aragog’s army of spiders made Harry and Ron run for their lives, leaving your creepy crawlers out on the porch will be enough to get a few shrieks from trick-or-treaters. 

Amazon is the best place to get the most spine-chilling spiders. However, if you’ve got a little extra time on your hands, you can create your own as well. For increased impact, remember to dip them in glow-in-the-dark paint so they don’t get missed at night. 

If you’re feeling a little kind and don’t want visitors to suffer a heart attack, you can warn them of the danger that lies ahead by hanging a sign on your door that reads “Beware the Creepy Crawler Corridor!” 

Flying Broomsticks

Remember that rumor in the horror verse that humans can only see ghosts and witches when they make themselves visible to them? You can play with this idea for this year’s Halloween porch decor ideas. 

To do this, assemble your broomsticks together and wrap a fish wire or transparent nylon string around their handles. With this step out of the way, all that’s left is finding the perfect spots to suspend these brooms and create the illusion of flying broomsticks.

Ghostly Drapes

This is the easiest Halloween porch decor idea and the best way to give your guests a ghostly entrance. 

Since strong winds are a given during fall, all you’ll need to do is attach tattered white sheets to different parts of your porch. Tie them to the swing, let them fall on the railing, or let them cover one of your plants and let the wind do the rest.

Black Lace Curtains With Smoke

“Am I brave enough to enter the witch’s lair?” That’s the question people will be asking when they look over at your porch and see this idea in action. 

All you’ll need is a pair of black lace sheets and a fog machine. Drape the sheets at the entrance and place the fog machine on both sides of the fence. Then wait until the sun goes down and your porch transforms into a place hiding the creepiest creatures in its shadows.