20 Spellbinding Halloween Planters You Can DIY (No Magic Required)

Fall's cooler temps + the arrival of Halloween guests = the perfect time to swap out your planter's faded summer blooms for plants that can handle a chill. While you're at it, give your porch a eerie-sistible switch-up with our planter decorating ideas. First up, learn why we associate besoms, or twig brooms, with witches and magic up your own with our DIY, below.

A few craft or dollar store staples are all you need to give your front porch planter a not-too-scary Halloween update with this blooming beastie. Best of all, everything's removable so you can easily transition the planter back to fall after All Hallows' Eve. Get all our tips in the how-to, below.

Give your fall planter a Halloween makeover in a hurry by sliding in this DIY signpost. To craft it, just paint small strips of wood in assorted colors, then use paint pens to add the lettering. Finally, attach each painted strip to a wooden garden stake. Watch the video, below, for more spellbinding tricks to dress up your front porch.

A pair of pool noodles + striped stockings + old black boots = a wee witch who appears to have lost her broom and landed in your front lawn. To ensure the pool noodles don't shift, slide in a long wooden dowel or dig a small hole in the potting soil and bury each end. Learn more about this front porch project, plus get 2 bonus ideas with our how-to, below.

A roll of medical gauze (check your local dollar store), tea bags, a little card stock, and tape are all you need to give your fall front porch planter an easily removable mummy makeover. Learn how with our step-by-step instructions, below.

Hit your local craft or dollar store, then easily give your front porch mums a little more personality with self-adhesive card stock and glittery pipe cleaners. Our step-by-step instructions, below, make this craft a snap and it's a great one for kids to help with.

Neighbors will think the invasion is imminent when your front porch ferns grow dangling tentacles and several glaring eye stalks. To recreate the look, head to the local craft store for sparkly streamers, foam spheres, and glittered craft foam, then get your summer ferns ready for Halloween festivities with a quickie costume change by following our how-to, below.

For another easily removable planter perk-up, follow the step-by-step instructions, below, to learn how a flexible hose, sturdy wire, styrofoam balls, and plastic vampire teeth combine to give a harmless plant some serious *bite*.

A 5/8" wooden dowel is the trick to stacking this pumpkin topiary so it won't fall over or shift. Get all the DIY tips, plus two other Halloween front porch fix-up ideas, with our guide, below.

Kitschy crafter, Jen Perkins, put her macramé skills to work to create this Halloween-themed hanging planter. It perfectly cradles a hollowed-out foam pumpkin holding a potted sweet potato vine. To add to the whimsical vibe, Jen strung on white beads, painted to resemble eyeballs, as she wove the holder. Take a tour of Jen's home, all decked out for Halloween, below.

If your thumb is more black than green and your summer plants have (ahem!) given up the ghost ... then follow blogger Amber Kemp-Gerstel's tips and transform that empty planter into a friendly ghost filled with treats. Her steps: 1. Place a bowl on top of the planter. 2. Cover the planter and the bowl with a white tablecloth (tuck excess fabric under the planter). 3. For the face, cut two eyes and a mouth from black felt, then attach to the tablecloth with double-sided tape. 4. Finally, fill 'er up!

Raid your recyclables and craft stash for this eco-friendly DIY that's a fun Halloween project for kiddos to assist with. Crafter Jen Perkins shares all the steps and materials needed below, plus a quick video for three more easy DIY planter ideas.

Follow the step-by-step instructions, below, from LA-based food artist Nikk Alcaraz to turn air-hardening clay, cookie cutters, and instant espresso powder into these totally customizable DIY pottery planters.

Fresh pumpkins are everywhere this time of year. If you have a green thumb, you may even have a few ready to harvest in your garden, making this the perfect seasonal project and a budget-friendly one, to boot. The trick, though, will be keeping that freshly picked pumpkin looking ... well, fresh. Fret not — the how-to article below shares the tried-and-true trick for keeping this gourd-geous planter looking its best.

Give your fall mums a quickie Halloween costume by drawing a friendly (or not-so-friendly!) jack-o’-lantern face on a terracotta pot. Or, for a temporary Halloween change-up, cut the facial features from black self-adhesive foam or felt so you can easily remove them on November 1st. Get more creative ideas for fall's favorite flower, below.

For an autumn planter a-go-go, just sub a wagon or wheelbarrow for a standard planter, then fill it with an assortment of fall blooms. Place each plant's pot in a deep saucer to catch any excess water, then position the rolling planter on the front porch, back patio, or wherever you anticipate Halloween guests (and ghouls) to gather.

Get an assist from the kids to transform a plywood board into a friendly scarecrow to welcome the littlest trick-or-treaters.

A few inexpensive craft supplies are all you'll need to transform a white mum into a ghostly mum-ster. Our quick how-to, below, breaks down each step.

When the summer annuals in your front porch planters have expired, replace them with these towering skull and moss topiaries. While it does require several plastic skulls, it doesn’t take much skill or many tools to craft this oversized outdoor decor you can store away and display for many Halloweens to come. You can find our step-by-step instructions below.