Halloween Projects & Crafts

We've compiled our favorite Halloween kids' projects for you and your little goblins. Try your hand at making decoupage pumpkins, garlands, pasta skeletons, and even Halloween-themed piñatas!

When Should You Start Decorating for Halloween?

We asked the holiday experts for their perspectives on pumpkins, ghosts, and winged bat wreaths.

Tasteful Halloween Porch Décor That Is Subtly Spooky

Prepare the front of your home for an elevated evening of trick-or-treating.

Hanging Bats

On Halloween, welcome trick-or-treaters in hair-raising style by turning your front porch into a bat cave. These fluttering winged critters are easy paper decorations.

Cheesecloth Spirits

21 of Our Best Indoor Halloween Decorations

Lure in your guests with an entrance that transports all who dare to step inside.

More Halloween Projects & Crafts

Fabric Pumpkins

A novice sewer can easily stitch up this pumpkin patch, rendered in matte and lustrous linen, silk, and velvet. Set the sewn pumpkins among real ones (some natural-hued, others spray-painted) in a cool autumnal scene of spare branches and scattered leaves spray-painted silver.

31 of Our Best Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Cast a spell over your entire neighborhood with these outdoor Halloween decorations, which are designed for front porches, backyards, sidewalks, and driveways.

Chicken Costume

Five Things You Can Carve for Halloween Other Than a Pumpkin

The Best Paints to Use When Decorating Pumpkins

How to Host a Pumpkin-Carving Competition or Party This Halloween

Picks of the Patch: Check Out Some of the Unique Pumpkin Varieties Grown at Washington's Gordon Skagit Farms

Tucked down a country road in the heart of Washington State's fertile Skagit Valley, Gordon Skagit Farms seems plucked from a storybook. Crates overflow with heirloom pumpkins in surreal colors, and sprawling displays showcase gorgeous gourds, warts and all. On an early-fall visit, we got to see the season's bounty up close—and learn about a family-run business on a serious roll.