Clip Art and Templates for Halloween

These giant gothic lanterns will hang ominously over your buffet table.

Use butterfly clip art to create party decorations that come to life.

This sideboard tableau intersperses luminous pumpkins with a decanter of wine, a stand with fruit, and other objects evocative of Edgar Allan Poe and his tales of horror. To render the glowing silhouettes, we used two techniques: The bright candelabrum and goblet are cut through the pumpkins' walls, while the textured quill and skull are pared gently from the outer shells. Pumpkins of different hues, including white Lumina, a green-gray Jarrahdale, and burnt-orange cheese pumpkins, add tonal variety.

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Glow-in-the-dark glitter gives this Halloween decoration its one-of-a-kind look.

Mischievous smiles make these skulls more sweet than scary.

Print the Skull Treat Box Template

Mischievous spirits, lacking bodies of their own, have been known to set up house inside scooped-out pumpkins and gourds. You can offer help by arranging these Halloween standbys into animal shapes -- all the better for playful souls to occupy.

Hair-raising party decorations don't need to be costly or fussy. You can make these frightening flourishes with our template, some inexpensive craft supplies, and just a few minutes of your time.

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Dole out treats this Halloween in our frightfully charming candy boxes.

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In this project, a smaller pumpkin is nested inside a larger one to create the look of a vulture trapped in a cage.

Guests will expect an unusual event when they receive invitations crawling with bugs.

Print the Creepy Crawly Invitations Clip Art

Use double-sided tape to place these cats where guests might least expect to find them -- whether they're perched inside framed prints or hiding in the window.

Print the Spitting Cat Template

Not one but five apple gourds, which have an unpleasantly mottled hue, lie in wait on this sill. Their shifty glances and tormented frowns were carved to look similar -- yet not quite the same. A bed of dead branches ensures this vengeful band will get no sleep.

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Shadows are emblematic of Halloween: They're dark and fleeting, and always lurking a step behind you. But decorating with them is impossible -- at least without black magic. Use some black paper and a little craftiness to make silhouettes, and you'll get the next best thing.

Print the Staircase Template

Create an arm-bone frame to display our sea life designs or another suitably spooky work of art.

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This ravenous pumpkin is cursed: He must offer up sweets to children all evening, yet he is not allowed to eat them (neither the sweets nor the children). A treat-filled bowl was placed in his cavernous mouth, and miniature flashlights were tucked on either side, against his jowls.

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These woodland favors are pinecone boxes disguised as birds of prey. The textured ridges resemble feathers, and crepe-paper embellishments finish the owl's menacing look.

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In case its startling greeting didn't scare you, this pumpkin also projects a leering visage onto the wall behind it.

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Bumpy, lumpy, and greenish gray, these Hubbard squashes have the perfect complexions for making warty witch jack-o'-lanterns.

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Create Halloween decorations that shimmer by adding glitter to our witch, jack-o'-lantern, skull, spider, or owl templates.

Floating, spinning visages will draw extra attention to a table of goodies.

Make a ferocious cat that claws at balls of twine filled with candy.

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Pressed-paper acorn boxes get dressed up for Halloween, evoking vintage treat containers handed out by candy shops and bakeries in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Think twice before you toss those used jars; You can give them a second life as cute Halloween decorations. Just paint them in pumpkin colors and give them funny faces.

Print the Jar-o'-Lanterns Template

Spine-chilling as it sounds, a colony of bats hanging from the highest reaches of your house serve as the perfect welcome for guests -- if you're throwing a Halloween party. You can also clip these clothespin bats onto tree branches or bushes outdoors to greet trick-or-treaters.

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Strike fear and anticipation into the hearts of your guests with invites that set a spooky mood the moment they emerge from the envelope.

Print the Skeleton Clip Art

Carve a screwy face into a pumpkin, and make him wink using socket kits and small appliance bulbs.

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As day turns to night, call on candles to cast an eerie glow throughout your home. When fierce silhouettes are propped above them, spectacular shadows dance across the walls.

Print the Shocking Silhouettes Template

Replace fabric curtains with elegant, gothic-inspired ones made of paper.

Print the Paper Curtains Template

Add a centerpiece of a pack o' lanterns to your table. These toothy little guys will enliven the whole room.

Print the Mini Jack-o'-Lantern Templates

We used an egg-shaped paper box -- with a treat hidden inside -- to make this playful bat decoration. 

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What would Halloween be without a macabre evocation of the denizens of the night? These multilegged creatures rise up from the damp earth and moss to skitter across cold stones.

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A selection of sunny sweets is even more tempting when displayed in glass containers with cheerful labels.

Print the Candy Jar Treat Labels

When the sun goes down, set a spooky scene with these dramatic lanterns made from simple supplies and our exclusive clip-art designs.

Give guests (and neighbors) a scare with curtains that reveal a scary figure lurking indoors.

Print the Silhouette Curtains Template

Create a sophisticated pumpkin centerpiece with sinuous stems and fanned leaves.

These avian hunters, equipped with clenched talons and a piercing stare, foretell a ferociously fun evening.

Print the Owl Invitation Clip Art

For an intricate and unique jack-o'-lantern, try carving a Celtic knot -- a complete loop with no end or beginning -- into a pumpkin.

Fill a pumpkin with dry ice for a smoldering display, or use it to serve punch.

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Looping wood grain onto your pumpkin is a cool, unexpected twist.

These creepy, crawly paper mice are not so nice. Stick these unsavory critters on stair risers, baseboards, or any spot where they might give unsuspecting passersby a little jump.

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Turn a Funkin into a spinning witch carousel you can use for Halloween year after year.

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This sinister sorceress and her trio of menacing felines are in a black humor -- all the better to give guests a start when they arrive at your home for the festivities.

A rickety picket fence unites a row of pumpkins in a depiction of a farmer's field.

Print the Farmer's Field Pumpkin Template

Use these simple and inventive skull potato stamps to add a spooky touch to Halloween treat bags.

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These puckish pumpkins, with paint-blackened rinds and orange-gold interiors, thumb their carved noses at traditional jack-o'-lanterns.

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Add a bewitching touch to walls and windows with our wicked-witch-on-a-broomstick silhouette.

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These dual-purpose Halloween invitations remind guests to save the date and later act as a treat bag for their party favors.

The stippled skins of these "One Too Many" pumpkins are adorned with marbleized Florentine-paper leaves and millinery-wire tendrils. Mini "White Ball" gourds nestle at their feet, while "Baby Boo" pumpkins find a spot at the table as place markers.

Because none of the pumpkins in this subtly colored centerpiece are carved, they can last well into the fall, perhaps even until Thanksgiving.

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Only brave party guests dare disturb the tasty contents of these graves.

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On the outside, pumpkin invites bear a greeting; pull up on the pumpkin top to reveal the party details.

An ink-coated silhouette is a sophisticated variation on pumpkin carving.

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Only the bravest of party guests will dare imbibe these terrifying drinks.

Turn a lopsided pumpkin into a basket for a spooky bouquet.

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Suspend a colony of creepy bats above the party table to give guests a scare.

Print the Bat Template

Send your guests home at the end of the night with newt-eye favors (green jellybeans), packed in wooden boxes topped with clip-art labels.

These spooky fish bones will add a creepy touch to any kitchen.

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