Whether you’re looking for festive and frightful or fun and playful displays, decorating outdoors with giant spiders, spider webs, and skeleton decorations for Halloween makes it easy to create spooktacular holiday decor.
Decorate your front porch and yard with these outdoor skeleton and spider web decoration ideas. Spider webs and skeletons make frightfully festive outdoor Halloween decorations. Follow the step-by-step directions below to learn how to make or arrange front porch Halloween decorations with spider webs and skeletons, or gather ideas to do your own thing. Creating Halloween-themed decor with spider webs and skeletons is fun and makes it appear as if giant spiders and skeletons have taken over the entire house. Another option is making this Halloween ghost craft and decoration.
Various types of spiders, spider webs, and skeleton decorations have become Halloween staples. Thanks to their versatility, they can be arranged in countless creative ways. Whether you’re aiming for eerie realism or humorous whimsy, skeletons and spiders provide a flexible base for a variety of haunting scenes. Today, you can even use giant 12-foot skeletons along with these ideas to decorate for Halloween. Create Halloween decorations that will impress your neighbors and make children squeal with horror and delight with this handy guide. First published on September 17, 2019, this outdoor Halloween decor tutorial is regularly updated to improve the content and keep the Halloween decor ideas current. You might also enjoy this list of Halloween art projects, Crafts, and Painting Ideas for kids and adults.
Related: Halloween Lantern DIY Ideas
Outdoor Skeleton Decorations with Spider Webs for Halloween:
Decorating with outdoor skeletons and spiderwebs for Halloween is fun for all ages! Best of all, using skeletons and spider webs lets you create funny and whimsical displays or spooky, scary, or even morbid Halloween decorations, depending on your preference. In other words, you can adopt a scary or more playful approach depending on your choice of Halloween props and how you position them. For example, you can create a more playful Halloween display by placing the skeletons in silly or unexpected poses, with spider webs and spiders crawling on or near them.
Think skeletons grilling on a barbecue, sitting in a patio chair, practicing yoga, or riding bikes, add humor to the Halloween decor, appealing to both kids and adults. Dress them in costumes, hats, or sunglasses to match your theme. Or go the other direction to create scary scenes in whatever way suits your fancy. Use the ideas below as inspiration to create a Halloween display with spider webs and outdoor skeleton decorations, however you please. With the growing popularity of posable skeletons in all sizes, including skeleton pets, and the Halloween decor ideas below, you can let your creativity run wild. You might also enjoy these Halloween spider door decorations.
Halloween Front Porch and Yard Decoration Ideas: Skeleton and Spider Web
Impress your neighbors and friends with these simple front porch Halloween decorations. Outdoor Halloween decoration ideas, such as this giant spider web with a skeleton, are fun for the whole family to create on the front porch and yard. We impressed our neighbors so much that we had to replace our Halloween skeleton
three times last year!
In the photo below, you can see the sign we put up above the mailbox that reads, “Boo, who stole our skelly!?” Please enjoy other people’s Halloween porch decor with your eyes, not your sticky fingers. Thank you! Update 2021: Since this post was first published, the 12-foot giant skeletons are now available at Home Depot and are much harder to steal! Use them in combination with the ideas below!
Related: How to Make Halloween Ghost Decorations
Outdoor Skeleton and Spider Web Halloween Decorations:
First, gather a combination of the Halloween front porch decoration ideas from the list below. (Each of the front porch Halloween decoration ideas is optional. Choose the decorations you like best.) Next, follow the step-by-step instructions in the next section to create a Halloween display with skeletons and a giant outdoor spider web, and a few other Halloween decorations. Choose from the decoration ideas recommended below:
DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations:
- DIY Giant Spider Web (orb spider web)
- Halloween Ghost Decoration
- DIY Spider Egg Sac Crafts
- Halloween Lanterns and Luminaries
- DIY Halloween Spider Door Decor
Outdoor Halloween Decorations You Can Buy:
Outdoor giant spider web with lights- Giant outdoor beef netting cloth spider web decoration
- 12-foot Giant Skeleton (Get them at Home Depot)
- Poseable life-size skeleton Halloween decoration outdoor
- Patio chair, Black folding chair, or rocking chair
- Howling wolf or dog skeleton
- Creepy Gauze cloth or Stretchy spider web
- Spider decoration with light-up eyes
- Halloween spiders set
- Medium spider decorations
- Small spider decorations or toys
- Real or artificial fall leaves
- Halloween light strand
- Real or artificial carving pumpkins
- Spooky Halloween soundtrack
Learn how to make the spider web and skeleton Halloween porch decoration idea in the photograph below with the simple step-by-step Halloween porch decor tutorial in the next section. You might also enjoy this list of Healthy Halloween Alternatives and Non-Candy Treats.
Giant Spider Web and Skeleton Halloween Decoration Tutorial:
Decorating the porch and yard for Halloween is fun for the whole family. Use the front porch Halloween decoration ideas shown here to decorate your front yard, door, or patio with spooktacular outdoor Halloween decor, such as the spider web and skeleton porch decor ideas featured in the photographs. You might also enjoy this list of Halloween art projects and painting ideas.
Scroll down to learn how to create a Halloween front porch display with the decoration ideas and the simple step-by-step DIY decor tutorial below. The instructions below provide a general guideline to help you create a Halloween display featuring skeletons, spiders, and spider webs. Please use the guidelines below to create outdoor skeleton decorations that will impress your neighbors and make children squeal with horror and delight.
1. Make a DIY Giant Spider Web or Hang a Pre-Made Giant Outdoor Spider Web:
- Use our giant Halloween spider web DIY tutorial to make an outdoor spider web with sticks or bamboo poles.
- Alternatively, purchase the outdoor spider web decorations recommended in the supplies above or at the bottom of this post.
- Or, attach a spider web coming from a 12-foot giant skeleton’s arm like Spider-Man in your front yard.
2. Arrange spiders in the giant outdoor spider web:
- Decorate the giant outdoor spider web with various spiders from small to extra large.
- Wrap and bend the legs of the spider decoration around the rope web to attach it.
- Put large hairy spiders with glowing eyes onto the giant outdoor spider web, the front door, and all over the front porch.
- Another idea is to arrange creepy-crawly spiders on the door.
- Here are a few spider Halloween decoration ideas for your spider web:
3. Position the skeleton(s) on the porch or in the front yard:
- Place a skeleton in a black rocking chair, a folding chair, or on a bale of straw near or behind the giant Halloween spider web.
- Another idea is to wrap the life-sized skeleton in a spider web, as shown in the photo collage below.
- To do so, wrap it in a stretchy spider web, gauze bandage roll, or creepy gauze fabric, and hang it from the ceiling or in the giant spider web. (A gauze bandage is shown in the photo collage below)
- Or hang a Halloween corpse decoration next to it.
- The primary idea behind the spider web and skeleton Halloween theme is to make it appear as though the spider(s) have already had a delicious meal, and the onlooker may be next!
- Alternatively, position skeletons in silly or playful positions such as grilling on a barbecue, practicing yoga, or riding bikes, etc.
- Dress them in costumes, hats, or sunglasses to match your theme or reflect your family’s sense of humor if desired.
- Update: Since this post was first published, Home Depot introduced its giant 12-foot skeleton decorations in 2020. Now you can add a giant Skelly to your festive outdoor Halloween decor! Build and stand the giant skeleton in your front yard. Attach a spider web coming from its arm like Spider-Man. Alternatively, put large hairy spiders crawling all over it. Or, decorate it with spiders and spider webs.
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4. Place the howling dog or wolf skeleton next to the skeleton or below the Spider Web (optional):
- A howling wolf or dog skeleton looks frightfully fun sitting beside the skeleton in the chair behind the spider web on our front porch. It would look equally fantastic sitting in the front yard.
- As mentioned previously, my daughter has been obsessed with skeletons since her first Halloween.
- A lovely couple we met while camping, when she was three, gave her the howling dog skeleton in the photographs after seeing how much she enjoyed it. It was sitting on the edge of their campground, and she loved to ask if she could make it howl when we walked by, and wanted to sit and play with it for hours. They called it Bones, and we decided to keep the name because it fits perfectly.
- My daughter loves to hide on the front porch and make Bones howl when an unsuspecting onlooker walks by. Beware, or you might be next!
looks frightfully fun sitting beside the skeleton in the chair behind the spider web on our front porch. It would look equally fantastic sitting in the front yard. 
5. Add more spider webs (optional):
- Arrange creepy gauze cloth or stretchy spider webs throughout the scene once your Halloween skeleton decorations are hung on the front porch.
- It can also be fun to wrap the skeletons and other props with the creepy gauze fabric, stretchy spider web (optional). The idea is to make the skeletons resemble the spider that wrapped them up in its web.
- Update: Since first publishing this Halloween decorations tutorial, I have learned that stretchy spider web is hazardous for birds, insects, and other wildlife. While you’ll see it in the pictures before I knew better, you won’t see it now. Today, I use rope to make a giant outdoor spider web, and creepy cloth for our DIY decor instead. Please, use stretchy spider web sparingly, if at all, in areas where birds don’t fly. Thank you!
Boo, Who Stole Our Skelly?
My daughter has been obsessed with posable skeletons of all sizes since she was a toddler. I don’t know what her fascination with them and Halloween pumpkins is all about, but she’s loved them since she first saw them in our neighbors’ Halloween decor displays before she could walk. When she was two, she whined until I bought her a small 18-inch skeleton, which she wanted to keep as a doll. She affectionately called it Skelly. This was not a seasonal toy for her; she played with it year-round until it lost one of its legs due to overuse a few years later.
Her father finally replaced it with a larger four-foot poseable skeleton doll, which my daughter pleaded with him to buy. She also named it Skelly, but it was stolen the same year. It was the skeleton we first used to create the Halloween display with skeletons and spiders in the photographs. So my husband decided to replace it with a poseable life-sized skeleton. Believe it or not, the Skelly in the original pictures for this tutorial was the third Halloween skeleton he purchased for our outdoor Halloween display that year (2019).
My husband tied the third skeleton we bought to the chair and column on the front porch to prevent it from being stolen! Look at how many zip ties my husband wrapped around the dog’s leg in the photo above! He even tied a cowbell on the back of Skelly’s head to alert our dog (and us) if anyone ever tries to steal it again—lol! Update 2021: Today, you can purchase a giant 12-foot skeleton, which, believe it or not, is named Skelly (which has been my daughter’s name for her favorite skeleton toys since she was a toddler) and is much more challenging to steal!
6. Add Optional scary outdoor Halloween decorations and cute Halloween porch decoration ideas:
- Add any other outdoor Halloween decorations or Halloween door decor to your Halloween porch decor or front yard display that you like.
- My family carved a few cute Jack-o’-Lanterns, added a string of pumpkin lights, and made an extra-large Halloween ghost decoration to hang on the opposite side of the front porch.
- Another fun idea is to make and hang spider egg sacs all over the front porch or place Halloween tombstones and skeletons coming out of the ground in the front yard or sticking out of garden beds! Scroll down for more ideas if you’re interested in making a skeleton graveyard in your front yard.
- Today, our whole neighborhood has joined the spiderweb and skelly fun. Spiders, skeletons, ghouls, ghosts, monsters, and their gnashing teeth, as well as a few minions, are taking over the entire neighborhood for Halloween this year.
- Below is a picture of another one of my family’s front porch skeleton and spider web displays.
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Homemade Halloween Porch Decorations:
Here are a few DIY Halloween decoration ideas for outdoor use. You can add any of these homemade Halloween porch decorations to your Halloween porch decor.
- Fall Nature Crafts (Scroll down to Pumpkin Carving and No-Carve Decorating Ideas)
- Ghost Halloween Decoration
- Halloween Lantern DIY Ideas
- Spider Egg Sac
- Halloween Spider Door Decor
Halloween Spider Door Decor:
Here’s a fun DIY Halloween decoration idea for any magnetic surface, such as metal security doors, garage doors, refrigerators, or magnetic whiteboards at school or home. Create these spider magnet crafts and use them to decorate your front door. Click the links for instructions and alternative ideas.
More Front Porch Halloween Decorations:
Here are a few additional Halloween decoration ideas, along with the step-by-step instructions, in addition to those recommended in the DIY supply section above. Feel free to add these cheap outdoor Halloween decorations (accessible front porch Halloween decorations) to your DIY porch decor this Halloween. Making a few homemade decorations makes decorating for Halloween more fun and economical.
- Halloween Giant Beef Netting Spider Web
- Light-up spider egg sacs
- Halloween garage door banner
- Happy Halloween banner
- Bat Halloween decorations
- Moroccan-style candle lantern (or make DIY Halloween lanterns)
- Real or fake carving pumpkins and pumpkin carving tools
- Lighted stack of pumpkins
- Straw Bale
- Spooky Halloween soundtrack
- Colored Halloween porch light bulbs (orange or purple)
Create a Skeleton Graveyard in Your Front Yard:
Another popular idea that looks fantastic in combination with outdoor spider web and skeleton decorations is a skeleton graveyard. Create a skeleton graveyard in your front yard using life-sized skeletons, fake body parts, skulls, tombstones
, fog machines, and dim lighting to craft a chilling cemetery scene.
Position skeletons (or parts of skeletons, such as skeleton arms) crawling out of the ground, lounging against headstones, or climbing trees to create the illusion that they’re coming back to life. For extra effect, use motion-activated sound boxes to play sudden creaks, groans, spooky Halloween music, or sinister laughter to surprise passersby.
Outdoor Spider Web and Skeleton Halloween Decorations:
We hope you enjoy these fun ideas for decorating your porch and yard for Halloween. Halloween decoration ideas like these make Halloween fun for the whole family!
Front porch Halloween decoration ideas, such as this giant spider web and skeleton, will impress your neighbors and delight children with a mix of horror and delight.
Happy Halloween!
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