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How to Keep Squirrels from Eating Pumpkins on Your Porch
Protect your creative pumpkin displays with these tips on how to keep squirrels from eating pumpkins outdoors.
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20 Pumpkin Carving Ideas to Inspire You this Halloween
Get out those power tools and carving kits! It's time to create your best Halloween pumpkin ever.
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16 Cool Painted Pumpkins
Chic stripes, bold metallics and ghoulish faces are just some of the brilliant ideas for your festive painted pumpkins.
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10 Spookiest Halloween Inflatables for Your Yard
Spooky inflatable decorations are hot this Halloween. They provide ghoulish fun that will delight (and scare!) everyone in the neighborhood.
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24 Spooky Ideas For Decorating Your Home This Halloween
Make your home spooky or extra fun with these creative ways to decorate your home and yard for Halloween.
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How To Make a Haunted House Out of Cardboard
Looking to decorate for Halloween on the cheap? Make a haunted house without spending a lot on materials.
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If You’re Hosting a Halloween Party, You Need This Fire Pit Skull ASAP
If you’re hosting a Halloween party or just like spooky decor in general, this fireproof skull is the perfect addition...
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How to Protect Your Carved Pumpkins from Pests
Wildlife expert Meg Pearson shares her tips to keep critters away from your fresh jack-o-lanterns.
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Move Over Giant Skeleton, Lewis Is This Year’s Hottest Halloween Decoration
Just don't call him a jack-o-lantern.
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What’s the Best Paint to Use for Pumpkins This Halloween?
We asked museum directors what paint they use at their annual pumpkin painting workshops. Take their advice and create your...
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Avoid Spooky Plumbing Mishaps with Pumpkin Guts This Halloween
Halloween's here, and that means gobs of guts (pumpkin guts, that is). Here's how to avoid a frightful Halloween plumbing...
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9 Elegant Fall Centerpiece Ideas
Elevate your fall-themed home decor with these elegant centerpieces you can make yourself.
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How To Choose the Freshest Pumpkin for Your Home
Learn how to spot the best pumpkins in the patch or pile!
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Cars Decorated for Halloween: Should You Do It?
Looking to up your Halloween game this year? Give your car a costume!
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10 Frighteningly Fun Ways to Decorate Your Porch for Halloween
Welcome (or scare!) trick-or-treaters with these fun Halloween ideas and DIY projects.
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What To Know About Using a Fog Machine for Halloween
Planning an event that would benefit from an eerie, mysterious haze? Buy or rent a fog machine!
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Light Up the Night with These Spooky DIY Pumpkin Solar Lights
The festive decorations are cheap, cute, easy to make and perfect for illuminating pathways for trick-or-treaters.
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9 DIY Halloween Decor and Costume Ideas With Fall Leaves
Here's how to turn pretty fall leaves into clever Halloween costumes and home decor. No rake required!
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If You See a Teal Pumpkin This Halloween, This Is What It Means
Those brightly colored gourds promote an excellent cause!
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How To Decorate Your House for Halloween
Consider this your complete guide to Halloween prep, including when, how and what to decorate.
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The Home Depot Is Selling an Evil Clown Handyman Decoration for Halloween
Sinister Steve moves, tells bad jokes and ruins any home project you have in the works!
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Grow a Jack-O-Lantern: Tips for Growing Pumpkins for Halloween
It's amazing to see how fast and far a pumpkin vine can grow in one season, producing several pumpkins that...
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10 Horrifying Halloween Animatronics to Add Movement to Your Decor
Ready to give the entire neighborhood a scare? These Halloween animatronics turn your home into the most haunted house on...
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14 Spooky Halloween Decorations for Your Front Door
In the mood for spooky? Look to our designer-curated list of front-door Halloween decorations you'll want to reuse for years...
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DIY Pressure Washer Pumpkin Carving: What to Know
We jumped into the pressure washer pumpkin carving craze! We thought it was a blast, but is it practical? Find...
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The Best Indoor and Outdoor Halloween Lights for 2023
From cute to creepy, these Halloween lights will add glowing ambiance to your holiday décor inside and out.
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The 7 Best Halloween Projectors to Decorate for Spooky Season
Our favorite Halloween projectors make it easy to add freight and delight to your home.
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How to Know If Your House is Haunted
Halloween is upon us and all of the exposure to all things spooky may lead you to believe that your...
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2022 Halloween Home and Décor Trends
Although many people love decorating for Christmas, others go all out decking the house for Halloween. These tips will help...
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13 Best Last-Minute Halloween Decorations
Though the spooky holiday is quickly approaching, you'll still have plenty of time to create these Halloween decorations.
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10 Scary Yard Decorations for Halloween
Give your home's facade a haunted makeover with these truly terrifying Halloween yard decorations.