Best Halloween Decorations 2025: From interactive skeletons to trunk or treat ideas

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Whether you’re looking for a fun cartoonish vibe or to transform your home into a terrifying scene, the right Halloween decorations can make you the talk of your neighborhood. From understated fall stylings to inflatable monsters, there’s no end of variation in preparing your house for the spookiest season.

Picking the right decoration is not just about keeping to your theme, you need to consider how long it will last, if there are any running costs, and how you are going to store it until next year – 12ft skeletons don’t pack away themselves.

Prestige Pick: Ultra Skelly

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Even the most hardened of trick or treaters might quail at being called out by name by a 6.5ft skeleton with glowing eyes. This customizable Ultra Skelly includes a series of set phrases to spook visitors but where it really stands out (well apart from in your yard of course) is through the Bluetooth control – allowing you to move the skeleton from your phone and also provide a live voiceover to provide personal greetings.

You can prerecord your own phrases to make them better fit your setup, as well as choose from a range of 18 animated eye options from glowing red eyes to skull and crossbones symbols. The rib cage glows with LEDs and again the color and patterns can be changed through the app.

Best jump scare animatronic: Sitting scarecrow

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It may be unassuming on approach, but this scarecrow entices trick or treaters with its candy bowl in its lap before springing to life and letting out an unearthly scream when they reach for their prize. Guaranteed to produce jump scares from all ages it's the perfect choice to turn your porch perilous (it is recommended for covered areas). 

It can be powered either through 4 AA batteries (not included) or through the mains with the included 6ft cord. It includes a candy bowl, although you will need to provide it with a chair or something else to sit on.

Best quick and easy transformation: Halloween pillow covers

Looking for a super quick way to transform a room that doesn’t cost a lot, plus can be folded away for storage? Halloween pillow covers have got you… well covered.

By using your existing pillows you’re not bloating your life with more large objects but the impact is just as great, with all kinds of varieties available to fit your theme, whether you’re going macabre or more cartoonish.

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Best for trunk or treat: Inflatable dinosaur

If you’re looking for a quick and easy trunk or treat idea that still has bite, this inflatable dinosaur can transform your car into a prehistoric nightmare – in a good way!

The built–in pump is powered by a car cigarette lighter and inflates the T–Rex in seconds, while internal LED lighting makes it suitable for night displays. Water resistant fabric and strings are included to secure the dino to your car so it won’t fall foul of the changeable October weather.

Best fake candles: Luminara flameless candles 

If you love the gentle flicker of candles but don’t want the fuss of lighting them or the fear of causing a fire if you forget to put them out, these Luminara models are about as close to the real thing as you can get without striking a match.

The ‘flames’ gently wobble, giving the impression of a real flame and they are made from real wax, preventing the plastic–look some fake candles have. Pair them with some skulls for a really devilish look.

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Best budget skeleton: At home posable life–size skeleton

Lots of the cheaper life–size skeletons can often look a hokey but this effort from At Home really looks more expensive than it is. It’s 5ft tall, posable and at that price, it’s feasible you could create a display of a whole family of skeletons.

It includes two red LED lights in the eyes powered by two AA batteries.

Best mantel decoration: Felt spider web

 This felt spider web can bring some macabre to your mantel but maintain the fun vibe thanks to its cartoonish styling and built in LED lights. Working equally well either as a table or window decoration it includes batteries and measure 16” X 55”.

Best pumpkin lights: Pumpkin LED lights

 Working just as well as on uncarved pumpkins as they could to accent a carved pumpkin, these battery–powered LED lights can add a bit of interest to your gourds. Our personal favorite is the Jack Pumpkin set which, with a matching carve job, delivers the classic Jack–o'–lantern look. 

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It’s hard to imagine something better designed to help build kids’ (or adults’) anticipation and excitement ahead of Halloween than building one of these themed Lego sets. It’s tough to pick between the cute Halloween wreath featuring a bat topper with ghost, pumpkin and spider web details (although bear in mind this is currently on back order so may not arrive in time for this year’s festivities), the 3–in–1 Haunted Mansion/Ghost Train/Haunted Ship set or the incredibly detailed Sanderson Sisters cottage from Hocus Pocus. Each set provides hours of fun building and playing, while helping you create a new tradition for your family.

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Best kitchen accent: Halloween dish towels 

These 100% cotton flour sack dish towels can give your kitchen a spooky season makeover with minimal effort. Choose between a skeleton, ghost, haunted house or pumpkin pile, or go for all four and use them as part of your table setting.

Best all fall decoration: Light wreath

I love a reusable decoration and this wreath of lights gives off spooky vibes when bare, but dress it up with some fall leaves after Halloween and it works as a perfect fall wreath to welcome your Thanksgiving guests. 

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Best year after year decoration: Beaded pumpkins

These cute beaded pumpkins can be brought out year after year to welcome in fall and the spooky season. Available with ghost, jack o’lantern or candy corn embellishments they measure 8” X 8” making them versatile enough to display on tables, porches, fireplaces or wherever you need to add some Halloween charm. 

Best inflatable: Oogie Boogie

While I’m more on the anti–side of the inflatable debate, I do see the appeal – especially when it comes to storing decorations between years. This inflatable also doesn’t suffer from being unnecessary round at the edges – because the character is already round at the edges!

It’s suitable for indoor or outdoor use and the built–in pump inflates it to its 59.84" height in seconds.

Best conversation piece: Cow skull lights

If you’re searching for a farmhouse feel for your Halloween these delightful cow skull lights bring a homely and unthreatening, but still spooky aesthetic. Suitable for indoor and outdoor use the 10 ft string with 10 skulls and is powered by 3 AA batteries and they can be combined to cover larger spaces. They can also work on a timer and include a light sensor to ensure you’re not running down the batteries when it's too bright to see if they are on or not.

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When the screams have died down you are left with something far more terrifying, finding a place to store your decorations until next Halloween. This storage bag can help you not only keep your bones and body parts fresh for next year, but the Halloween coloring can make it easy to find the right bag when you have to haul it out of the basement or attic where you stash it.

It includes built in wheels to make it easier to move heavier decorations and can even fit in a disassembled Ultra Skelly inside.

If you’re more of a 12ft skeleton kinda person, it may be worth considering the Husky 170 gallon storage crate (actually the largest retail plastic storage container as recognized by the Guinness World Records for… some reason). This huge box includes a lockable lid, wheels, a pull out handlebar for dragging it and is stackable if you need a similarly sized box to keep all your Christmas decorations stored alongside it.