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Images and icons to inspire your Halloween creations

Halloween Design Ideas are the perfect inspiration for Autumnal creations.

Updated August 2024

 If you’ve checked out our previous post on how to create a Halloween calendar or perhaps you want to create some other Halloween bakes and crafts and need inspiration then check out our ideas below!

These also provide an excellent source of inspiration when it comes to pumpkin carving or painting time.

Classic Characters

What would Halloween be with its central characters?

• Dracula and Vampires
• Werewolves
• Frankenstein’s Monster
• Frakenstein’s Monster’s Wife
• Invisible Man
• Zombies
• Mummy
• Ghosts (and Casper too!)
• Witches
• Grim Reaper
• Headless Horseman

Classic Halloween Icons

These classic icons form the basis of many Halloween crafts. The imagery they provide takes people straight to spooky season!

• Haunted House
• Ghost Train
• Spiders and webs
• Blood and blood splatters
• Trick or treat!
• Sweets and, for the Americans, Candy
• Skulls
• Cats
• Bats
• Gargoyle
• Pumpkins
• Spooky tree
• Grave Stones, tombs and crypts
• Moon
• Owl
• Crows
• Candles
• Spellbooks and ancient tomes (Hocus Pocus has a particularly creepy book!)
• Cauldron

Social Media Life

Social Media orientated themes can spark off a range of Halloween Design Ideas

Themes such as

• Good Girl Gone Bad
• Time travel and throwbacks
• Monster Mashups
• Hall-o-queen
• Witch please

Films and Pop Culture

Films and pop culture can be a wealth of Halloween inspiration. Not just scary films but also series and films that feature different celebrations during their stories.

• Harry Potter and the Wizarding World
• Tim Burton movies-think Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride
• Super Heroes, Super Villains and Sidekicks
• Halloween themed Disney films-think Halloweentown and Hocus Pocus (and now 2!)
• Also be sure to check out Disney Plus for a range of Disney Channel Films with Halloween Icons
• Halloween at Disney
• Classic spooky Disney rides like Haunted Mansion and its variants around the world
• Disney Villains
• Hotel Transylvania (and all its sequels) feature loads of monsters and potential reference ideas

For more film ideas be sure to check out my blog post over on my other site Another Travel Tshirt listing my top family friendly Halloween films!