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!

Halloween at Home Depot

It would appear that yet another blogworthy Halloween store section has emerged! Home Depot really impressed me with their selection. I saw stuff there the other day that I haven't seen in other stores.

This fish made a glub-glub-glub sound when set off, like you're hearing bubbles. I think a chomp-chomp-chomp sound could work too! The full piranha:

It's quite the feat for a store to show me a new skeleton critter at this point. I just noticed his little skeletal fin. I'm pretty sure that "skeletal webbing" is not anatomically correct, but it's cute.

Now here's an inflatable I bet you haven't seen yet! I sure hadn't. Remember the Sandworms in Beetlejuice?

How about that photobombing ghost? :)

Looking at that Sandworm, I'm thinking how cool it would be to do a Beetlejuice themed yard display. How about if someone dressed up as Beetlejuice to hand out treats and had this in his yard? That would be pretty cool.

A random pumpkin dude, who I think was one of those hanging ghoulie type decorations:

For those of you who are into skeleton pirates and ghost ships, which I would think would be everyone, you're going to love this:

I just noticed that Figurehead:

And check out the crew!

It's like they took some props from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

If any of you are looking for some large scale outdoor Halloween decorations, it's looking like Home Depot is the place to go! I was impressed with the amount of life-sized (or I would assume so) creatures. This werewolf was incredibly cool. This was the one I thought would be scariest out of the store. Imagine if someone set this up in the woods and you happened to walk past it at night.

This guy was tall. I would guess 7 ft. He was looming over me. Several of these characters or displays were towering above me, so I can only imagine how much they would spook little trick-or-treaters.

Oh, and when you set it off, its mouth opens as it growls and it lights up like this:

This guy was quite the character. Kind of a mischievous sorcerer type.

It was hard to catch the complete spirit of some of these figures because of the intense store lighting. I'm sure this skeleton knight would look a lot scarier in the dark! He said something about a battle, as I'm remembering it. I mean, these creatures say vaguely threatening things. I was standing in front of it, hoping the sword wouldn't swing (it doesn't).

This was probably my favorite of the large, moving, light up figures. I have always liked the Headless Horseman story, so that may have been part of why I liked this so much. But it really was very cool.

Look at that rotting corpse of a horse! I was so impressed with the way its head moved and its legs moved up and down in a slow gallop. You can see that sort of fabric part around the neck. That's where the head had some flexibility.

Many of these figures had that little button in front of them that you tap with your foot to get them moving and making noise. So in a way, their Halloween section was a lot like Halloween Express.

How cool is the skeleton-driven hearse!? I wish I could have gotten a closer view of it, but it was way up over my head on a shelf. Can you see his red, glowing eyes?

Home Depot had a few classic skeleton floral arrangements out. This one is inspiring me to do something floral-wise. I do have enough little skulls around, as well as fake roses. Hmm...

The matching wreath:

I'll end with a pic of some of the pie pumpkins that were outside the store. I liked the way these looked with the greens behind them. That looks like ornamental chard.

So have you guys been to Home Depot yet? I suggest going and just having a good time in the Halloween section! Make the rounds and set off some of those figures. Watch them light up and listen to what they have to say. I think you'll have a fun time! 🎃