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!

Strawberry Moon and Miniature CSI

The past couple nights have presented me with a pretty great view of the sky. Last night's Strawberry Moon was beautiful:

I read that Jupiter could be seen by some people as a very bright little light near the moon. I didn't see any small extra lights, but I did think the moon itself was especially glowy.

I was out there a couple nights before last and got these very dramatic photos:

On the night I took these, it was pretty late and the wind was blowing at 20 mph. (I checked that online.) So it was exciting and fairly spooky to be out there. It was also only about 50° at that time. I could easily pretend it was an autumn night.

From a spooky sky to a spooky find, maybe some of you can help me with what I'm calling my "Miniature CSI" project. I found this little piece of evidence right on the surface of the soil while I was planting flowers.

Its other side:

As you can see, it was left clean.

And also as you can see, from this photo of it next to a quarter, this little piece of evidence is small.

So what do you guys think? I'm not even sure what part of the skeletal structure this came from, or whose skeletal structure it came from. It's hard to guess which creature this used to be a part of. I'm thinking based on its size, this was once part of a little bird or a rodent. Maybe part of its spine? We all have enough (fake) critter skeletons for Halloween. Maybe those could be a clue?

This experience at first gave me the feeling that I was working on a forensic investigation. Then, as I searched for more little bones, I felt like a paleontologist. I was hoping to find enough to piece together, well... something. I imagine this is what it feels like on a much larger scale for people as they find dinosaur bones. This might be a really small pterodactyl. ;) If you're wondering, no, I didn't find any more "evidence". This one little bone was just randomly there.

I'm interested to hear any of your thoughts on this!