Some folks like to make really creepy Halloween craft ideas. I totally admire the ingenuity they use.
If you want to make your yard the creepiest one on the block, look at some of these ideas. Many of them use things you already have around your home.
Edgar Allen Poe Topiary
Make this wonderful creepy Edgar Allen Poe topiary for your Halloween centerpiece. It’s easy to make and uses a few recyclables.
Where Edgar Allan Poe Shops
Discover where Edgar Allan Poe shops!
Decaying Bodies and Body Parts
Paper Mache Skeletons
This paper mache skeleton is time consuming, but yields great results. Use newspaper to make the paper mache.
Creepy Creatures for Your Graveyard
Use PVC pipe, old garden hose, metal clothes hangers and newspaper mache to make these creepy creatures. You’ll have a great scene!
Make a Wrapped Mummy
Complete directions for making a wrapped mummy using styrofoam and fabric.
Make A Mummy
Create this realistic looking mummy using plywood, 2 x 2 lumber and muslin.
Scary Witch
For a great scary witch, use a good witch mask and hat, and build the body with stakes or dowels and plastic tablecloths.
Stuffed Dummies
How to make stuffed dummies from old clothes, newspapers and plastic bags. Make several to people your Halloween scenes.
Polymer Clay Zombie
Shape the body with wire and cover with aluminum foil before adding the polymer clay to make this polymer clay zombie. Well made project.
Bloody, Dripping, Head Sack
You need a clean milk jug, burlap, a piece of rope and water with red food coloring to make a cool bloody, dripping head sack!
Severed Fingers
These severed fingers are creepy! Add some fake blood to the severed end and they will be really scary. They are made with art plaster and look VERY real!
Dismembered Hand
Use a joke arm and add a few embellishments to make a dismembered hand.
Realistic Eyeballs
Make these eyeballs from deoderant bottle balls. Use these in your skeletons and mummies!
Eye-Bead Demons
How to make eyes in the bushes using cans, black spray paint and candles. Use battery operated candles for safety.Great idea!
Haunted House Creepy Halloween Craft Ideas
Make a Haunted House
Instructions on how to make a neat haunted house using black plastic, spider webbing, skeleton and spiders.
It includes more ideas for how to make it creepier.
Cheap Stone Wall
How to make a cheap stone wall with styrofoam insulation board and paint.
Guillotine
Make a guillotine using wood and stain, to creep out your guests.
Spiderwebs
Interesting spiderwebs that are made with black puff paint sprayed on a nonstick baking sheet.
Giant Halloween Spiderwebs
Use strips of friction tape to make giant Halloween spiderwebs on your haunted house.
House Zombies
These clever and fun cardboard house zombies can be made quickly.
Creepy Halloween Craft Ideas for Decor
Dungeon Shackles
Use heavy packing tube rings and plastic chain to make these realistic looking dungeon shackles.
Faux Candelabra for Halloween
Use plastic foam and black spray paint to make this candelabra – perfect for a haunted house! Drape some fake cobwebs over it to make it appear neglected.
Spooky Chandelier
Easy spooky chandelier creates a great effect. Cut out of foam board and add black glitter and cobwebs.
Paranormal Portraits
Clever, creepy idea for using regular photos to make paranormal portraits.
Spooky Portraits
Fun idea for Halloween decor make these spooky portraits and put in Dollar Store frames.
Moving Eye Portrait
Make a moving eye portrait by copying a photo into a poster size and add ping pong ball halves for eyes.
Face in a Mirror
Sand a corner of an old mirror and attach a frightened face photo printed on translucent paper for a great face in a mirror.
Creepy Curtains
Shred cheesecloth stained with coffee or tea to make creepy curtains.
Forgotten Flowers
Spray silk flowers black for a perfect Halloween centerpiece of forgotten flowers.
Sinister Centerpiece
Use 99 cent skulls from the Dollar Store to make this great sinister centerpiece.
Bleeding Candles
Dip red candles into white wax, and when lit they “bleed” red wax. Paint candlesticks black to hold your bleeding candles.
Creepy Bubbling Cauldron
Spray a pile of foam insulation to fill top of pot and add body parts and insects. Clever and easy creepy bubbling cauldron.
Witch’s Broom Pail
Scroll down a little to see a pail painted black with perfect witch’s brooms parked in it.
Witches Kitchen Jars
How to make potion jars for a laboratory or witch’s kitchen.
Chilling Graveyard Creepy Halloween Craft Ideas
Graveyard Fencing
Great Halloween yard idea to go with your other creepy creations. Graveyard fencing is easy to do.
Graveyard Gate
Weather picket fencing to make a graveyard gate look rundown.
Breakaway Tombstone
If you like your props realistic, this breakaway tombstone is perfect. Made with a sheet of foam insulation and spray paint, it’s just what you need to put inside your graveyard fence.
24 Hour Tombstones
Make these cast concrete 24 hour tombstones for impressive and tough Halloween props.
More Tombstone Patterns
More tombstone patterns to give your graveyard a distinctive look. You don’t want all your tombstones to look alike!
Front Yard Cemetary
More gravestones and other ideas to creep up your front yard cemetary.
Haunted Tree
This craft requires a lot of effort.. but what a great finished spooky tree!
Grave Ghoulies
This eerie Halloween project can be put together quickly and easily. Who wouldn’t love to see this ghoulish hand coming up out of their front yard!
A Ground Breaker Corpse
For those who like their Halloween decorations creepier, try this unusual idea for a ground breaker corpse.
Creepy Creatures for Your Graveyard
Use PVC pipe, old garden hose, metal clothes hangers and newspaper mache to make these creepy creatures. You’ll have a great scene!
Creepy Snakes
Try these great creepy snakes made from pipe insulation. Hang them from tree branches or curl around a gravestone.
More Creepy Halloween Craft Ideas
Halloween Monster List
This is a humongous list of all the creepy Halloween craft ideas you could ever want to make!
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