Home Depot Halloween 2026

I think it will be interesting to compare Home Depot's Halloween selection to what I just shared from Lowe's. Both stores had some amazing animatronics. I feel like Home Depot had a bit more humor in theirs. That might sound funny with what I'm starting off with here. Remember the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz? I don't know what's scarier here, the eyes or the teeth.

I took these photos a while back, but as I recall, the wings flapped.

This pirate section was one of my favorites. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney, and these remind me of that. You can't help liking this guy.

 

A skeleton with a bit of a beer belly. :)

The opposite of a beer belly:

This skeletal barista or bartender was all too real. I mean, he feels like he's a lot of actual people. And boy, did this one like to talk! And talk. And talk. It's one of those props you walk away from and he's still going. Oh, I see here he's named "John, the Last Call Mixologist".

 

He had some cool skeleton tattoos. Tattooed boney arms! This guy is something. And what's neat is that he stirs that little glass.

All lit up! How fun would it be if someone set him up in their bar or coffee shop?

A real reacher:

 

This dude was a creeper. Look at those hands!

This guy! I love the comically tall hat.

 

Everything about him is great. My mind keeps flipping back and forth between "Is this scary or is this funny?"

That part of me that was scared by the raptors when I first saw Jurassic Park is digging this. It looks like someone hung a skeleton snake over his back and down his arm.

 

 

Roar!

 

 

And check out his exposed meaty leg. Kinda gross.

 

Speaking of kinda gross, this thing! This baby troll. Blech! I mean that in a complimentary way. This prop gave me the heebie jeebies.

Remember him?

A plague rat! I feel like this prop said something kind of funny but I can't remember what it was.

Its head turns from side to side.

 

 

How fun are these? I think this was the first time I'd seen non-pumpkin fake food carvings.

I love these next two! How vintage can you get?

 

And a Halloween-themed Home Depot bucket. This wasn't for collecting treats. I think this was just a good looking, practical bucket. It was fairly large. Nice touch with the 2026 in the cobwebs.

Here's something nasty. The "Rotwing Parrot" was back with the pirates.

To me, this is a wicked gargoyle, but I want to say it was called a pixie.

The wings flapped and everything. Look at the attention to detail on these wings:

 

See that line under the spider? The spider shot forward along that.

How great would this be on the top of a building?

 

I got such a kick out of this plant monster for some reason.

 

He lights up in a really pretty purple.

So there we have Home Depot! Pretty great props, hey? As I said before, I felt like some of these were humorous. It could be my sense of humor. Well, next up is Menards!

Creepy Creatures and Cars at German Fest

This weekend, my mom and I visited German Fest in Milwaukee. It was a beautiful sunny day, but there were a still a few spooky sights to see. The woodcarver you might remember from last year's German Fest blog post was there. Some of his creepy masks were on display, like this one:

Do you think this is a witch or a troll? I could go either way on that.

And this creature I think is a Perchten, like the one from last year.

It looks like a real bloodsucker, whatever it is. The artist:

These two didn't go with the sculptor's display. That's not to say he didn't make them, because I'm not sure who did. They're a little eerie in their own right.

I don't even know what was going on here! Haha! It doesn't look good.

I always look forward to seeing the German car show at the festival and I especially like getting a photo of this skeleton driver each year. I've seen skeletons in the driver's seat at a few car shows and I always appreciate it!

You can't see him in the driver's seat here, but the skeleton is in this car:

And for all you Halloween lovers out there, I photographed some bright, orange vintage cars. A bug that I can imagine a jack-o-lantern face decal on:

A Karmann Ghia:

Speaking of cars you guys will appreciate, we saw this one on the road that day:

Cute Social Distortion skeleton. I guess it was skeleton/car day.

This German Fest mascot was far from spooky in any way, but he was far too adorable not to include. This is "Fritzie".

For any of you who'd like to see a little more of German Fest and what it's all about, here's the festival's web site:

German Fest Milwaukee