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Skeleton Full Moon Porch

I was recently challenged by Oriental Trading to create something with their new unicorn skeleton. Isn’t it cute?? We had a full moon coming up so I thought it would be fun to create a spooky full moon and flowers unicorn porch.

We named our skeleton Alice and our unicorn Esmerelda. They love gardening and making our porch beautiful. They added mums to our steps and helped us decorate our porch.

Create Elements That Work Together

The key a beautiful seasonal porch is different elements that work together. This concept is true with a Halloween porch. We combined different elements that all work together to tell as story.

Skeleton Halloween Porch

The main element in our Halloween porch is of course our skeletons. Oriental Trading skeletons are made out of very high-quality materials so they will last for years. One of my favorite parts of their skeletons are their adjustable joints. You can pose them in every way. We sat our witch Alice on the top step of our porch, holding a potted mum. Then we posed our unicorn Esmerelda next to her, sniffing the flowers.

Fall Flowers Bring Color to a Halloween Porch

I love using natural elements inside and outside. Fall is especially beautiful with the flowers and leaves turning. We arranged some colorful mums on the front steps and in front of our door in our skeleton Halloween porch.

Add a Giant Sign to a Halloween Porch

I love making giant signs for every holiday. I added a giant sign that I made last year with a witch theme. It adds height to the porch and is easy and welcoming to see from the road.

Halloween Banners are an Easy Way to Decorate a Halloween Porch

I also love banners. These two Haunted Halloween banners are also from Oriental Trading and they come with the string and everything you need to hang them right up. They would be so cute on a food table of a Halloween party too! I hung them at the top of the door.

Metallic Lanterns Bring Sparkle and Light to a Halloween Porch

I love these rose gold lanterns!! They are such a gorgeous color and you can order them in two different sizes. They look so good paired together. I think lanterns coming down steps on a porch is so inviting as they caste a welcoming glow up to our home. I also love that I can use these lanterns throughout the year!

Halloween Pillows are an Easy Way to Decorate for Halloween

Another element that I love about our Skeleton Halloween Porch are these Halloween pillows. They come in a set of three for $19.99 which I think is an amazing deal. They look great together and they are an easy way to decorate your porch or home. We have a hanging swing on one side of our porch where these pillows will be displayed. But they are soft and comfy and perfect for inside too! You can add them to a chair or couch and voila! You are decorated for the holiday.

Skeleton Stakes Add a Spooky Element to Your Planters

The skeleton stakes are probably my kids’ favorite element of our skeleton Halloween porch. We arranged them sticking out of a few of the pots. I also love that the skeleton hands are making a peace sign and hang ten sign with their fingers. So cute.

A Spooky Wreath is an Easy Way to Decorate a Skeleton Halloween Porch

Of course we had to have a spooky wreath to top off our Spooky Skeleton Porch. In fact, we decided that we needed 2 wreaths to complete our design. The Dead and Breakfast sign is perfect on a door or hanging on the porch. We thought it looked perfect in the center of our door. To the side we hung a very spooky black branch wreath. My favorite element of this wreath is that it lights up with little red lights that look like bat eyes. I added a silhouette picture to the center to give it an even eerier vibe.

You Can Use One or All of These Spooky Elements to Create the Perfect Halloween Porch for YOU!

There you are! We LOVE our spooky skeleton Halloween porch! I also love that I can use items I ordered from Oriental Trading over and over in new ways year after year! Use one or all of the spooky elements to create a Halloween porch that is perfect for YOU and YOUR home.

Spooky Skeleton Halloween Porch Resource List:

Skeleton

Unicorn Skeleton

Rose Gold Lanterns

Set of Three Halloween Pillows

Haunted Halloween Banner

Dead and Haunted Inn Halloween Sign

Black Lighted Halloween Wreath

Skeleton Planter Arms

Black Mesh Material

Have a Creative Day!

xoxo

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GIANT Signs are easy to make and an inexpensive way to decorate for ANY holiday!

I love making GIANT signs! I’ve been making them for at least 8 years now for almost any occasion or holiday! Giant signs are perfect to put by your front door, in your entryway or leaned up next to a shelf or mantel. In my opinion they are the easiest way to decorate and make a statement for almost no money.

Witch Halloween Porch

I am working on my Halloween porch right now. It’s going to be a witch-theme porch! I can’t wait! LOTS of black and white. I am also going to bring back my black and white pumpkin topiary and it gets a twin – to go by our front door. I am also going to make a whimsical version of last year’s colorful dollar store pumpkin garland – but with striped and polka dotted pumpkins this year! I am still working on what kind of wreath to make. I want to make either a witch’s hat wreath or maybe a witch wreath with the legs hanging down in the striped stockings. Have you seen that?

Witch Umbrellas

Another idea I have is to bring back the witches hanging from a umbrella that I did a million years ago!

Witching Hour Porch

A couple of years ago I did a Witching Hour Porch which I LOVED! I made a GIANT sign for that porch too that said Witching Hour. I decided to flip that sign over and make a new one on the back. I do that with almost all of my signs. It’s even more inexpensive and it makes them easier to store since you have less wood to stack up.

A GIANT Sign is an Easy and Quick DIY!

This project seriously takes no time to make. The thing that takes the most time is spray painting the board twice and letting it dry. But I have figured out a way to make it as streamlined as possible. I made this sign in less than an hour.

Here’s how to make a GIANT Witch Halloween Sign!

Get a Board

I pick up my boards from the hardware store. They are technically pine shelves and are with the unfinished wood. I pay around $7 per board.

Spray Paint

Pick out the colors of spray paint you want. You will need one for the letters and one for the rest of the board.

Craft Cutting Machine

This project is easiest if you have a craft cutting machine.

Vinyl

You will need a length of vinyl that is as long as your board

Transfer Tape

Transfer tape will make your life a lot easier as you peel the vinyl off and apply it to your board.

Of course you can hand paint your letters on the board if you want. This is an option if you don’t have a craft cutting machine. Another idea is to get large stencil letters and stencil your saying on the board.

Spray Paint Your Board

Spray paint the board the color that you want your letters to be. While it is drying to the following:

Design Your Board

I used a Silhouette machine and used Silhouette Studio to design what I wanted it to say. I also used it to grab an image of a raven for the board.

Cut Your Vinyl

Cut your vinyl out.

Apply Vinyl to Board

Use transfer tape to apply the vinyl to your board. Make sure you smooth all the bubbles out under the vinyl.

Spray Paint Your Board the Second Color

Spray paint your board the main color that you want the sign to be and let it dry.

Peel off the Vinyl

Revealing your saying. Now you are done or you can sand the board if you want.

You have a GIANT sign to decorate with!! And the magical thing about GIANT boards is that you can say ANYTHING you want in any COLOR that you want. The sky’s the limit in creativity!!

Here are a few other GIANT signs that I have made and still use and love: 

Do you decorate for Halloween?

What projects are YOU working on?? 

Have a Creative Day!

xoxo

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Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign

Make Giant Halloween Typographical Signs. I love anything really small or really large. A few years ago I started making giant signs for my porch. It’s a really easy and inexpensive way to add a punch to your seasonal or everyday decorating. I use lumber from the hardware store for the signs. You can cut them to any size – depending on what you are spelling and the space you want to decorate! I use unfinished pine shelf boards from the hardware store. If you know the approximate length of the board you want you can have the helpful hardware store workers cut the board for you. So easy.

Here’s how I make Giant Typographical Signs:

Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign

• Go down to the hardware store and buy an unfinished shelf. I bought pine and it comes in 4 foot sections – I didn’t even have to cut it. $6!
• Pick out two spray paint colors. If they have a high contrast, your word will stand out better.
• A vinyl cutting machine is great. If you don’t have one, you could print out the letters on your printer and then trace them onto vinyl and cut that out. But that might take a long time.
• Design your word on your computer and then cut it out on your vinyl cutting machine.
• Take your board and spray paint it the color that you want the words to appear. My letters are white so I painted my board white first.
• Once the board is dry, take the vinyl you have cut out and transfer it onto transfer paper with the letters only — not the outlines.
• Put the vinyl onto the board and smooth down the edges really well with a credit card or burnisher.
• Take the board outside and spray paint it with the background color you’ve picked out – I painted the sign black.
• Once the second color of spray paint is dry, peel the vinyl off and sand the edges of the board.
• You can apply a little stain to the edges if you want.
• Then the last thing to do is add a hanger to the back of the board or just lean it against a wall and ADMIRE your work!!

Here’s how the sign looks on my 2016 Witching Hour Porch:

Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign

And here are a few other GIANT typographical signs I have made in the past:

Giant Love Sign

Giant Choose Happy Sign

Giant Autumn Sign

Giant Holiday Sign

Are you decorating for Halloween? 

What projects are you working on? 

Have a great day! 

xoxo

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