Spooky Season Styling: Elevate Your Holiday Decor with a Stylish Halloween Tree

An emerging trend is captivating enthusiasts of Halloween – adorned Halloween trees. Much like a Christmas tree, a Halloween tree is embellished with lights, ornaments, and garlands, all embracing a Halloween motif.

A Halloween tree, occasionally referred to as a Halloween Christmas tree, provides a delightful expansion to your fall decorations. Picture spiders and skeletons, ghosts, and pumpkins adorning the midnight-black branches of an artificial tree. Alternatively, envision plastic spiders or lime-green baubles hanging from a twisted twig tree.

Whether your taste leans towards charming Halloween decor or something more eerie, planning Halloween tree embellishments that suit your unique style is sure to be an enjoyable experience.

How Do You Adorn a Halloween Tree?

There are countless ways to decorate Halloween trees. Allow us to guide you through an early exploration, presenting an array of Halloween lights, ornaments, and decor to enhance your eerie season festivities.

Select Your Tree

When you search “black Christmas tree” or “Halloween tree,” you’ll be amazed at the sheer variety of Halloween decorating concepts that emerge. You’ll come across Halloween trees resembling a conventional Christmas tree but in black with orange lights. Consider a tri-color candy corn Halloween tree as another alternative. There are also gnarled and twisted twig trees, along with ready-to-use pre-decorated pop-up trees. Once you’ve found your desired look, you can begin to plan your overall decoration theme.

Halloween tree concepts: 6 foot black Halloween tree with orange mini lights

39 inch LED lighted black Halloween twig tree

6 foot fiber optic candy corn Halloween tree

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The charm of beginning with an unlit black Christmas tree is the freedom to add the exact style and quantity of lights you desire. Layer warm white, yellow, and orange Halloween tree lights for a candy corn effect or opt for yellow and orange candy corn lights. Purple or green mini lights add a spooky vibe. Alternatively, choose a pre-lit Halloween tree and augment it with distinctive lights and illuminated Halloween decorations to make it truly stand out. Novelty Halloween string lights come in entertaining designs such as jack o’lanterns, ghosts, and spiders. For a dramatic effect, nestle a lighted Halloween window silhouette among the branches.

Halloween light concepts: 10 count jack o'lantern Halloween bubble lights

10 count LED purple spider Halloween novelty lights

50 count LED string lights in purple, green, and orange

Add Decorations

pumpkin orange matte glass ball decoration

Once the lights are in place, it’s time to adorn your tree! There’s really no hard and fast rules for selecting Halloween tree decorations. Begin by choosing a style for your Halloween tree. After achieving this, collect Halloween adornments that resonate with your chosen theme. For example, Jack o’lanterns add a family-friendly touch, whereas spiders and ghosts create a mildly spooky feel. For something truly menacing, you could include skeletons, skulls, and bloodshot eyeballs, which look strikingly eerie among the branches of a black Halloween tree.

Halloween tree decoration inspirations: bats and skeletons Halloween ball decorations

Tinsel

Similar to Christmas tinsel, Halloween garland beautifully completes your Halloween tree decor. Opt for classic tinsel in hues of purple, orange, black, or silver. You can also enhance a theme with a quirky garland featuring pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and other eerie figures. In addition to being a wonderful finish for your Halloween tree, tinsel also accents other decorations when draped over mantels, doorways, or added throughout your Halloween party buffet table!

Ideas for Halloween garland:

50 foot orange and black Halloween tinsel garland

purple and black Halloween skulls, bats and ghosts garland

set of 2 white and black hanging ghosts garland

black and silver tinsel garland with ghosts

Additional Decor orange and black metal pumpkin lantern set You could cover the base of the tree with a skirt, but why not use that space for more decorations? Creating a Halloween display is significantly more enjoyable! Place pumpkin ornaments, Halloween lanterns, or flameless candles at the base. Craft a Halloween village, scatter skeleton bones underneath, or layer it with autumn leaf garland paired with additional Halloween lights.

Additional Halloween Decor:

7 inch LED lighted pumpkin village Halloween decoration

10 inch LED lighted jack o'lantern and black cat tabletop decoration

Trick or Tree!

The wonderful thing about a Halloween tree is there’s no stress about how you adorn it. Every decoration style you choose – wild, spooky, quirky, or child-friendly – complements the Halloween spirit.

Opt for an elaborate 6-foot Halloween tree in your living area or go with a more modest one for a tabletop or entryway. Enhance your outdoor Halloween scene by placing an adorned Halloween tree on a sheltered porch or deck.

This October, bring a fresh touch to your festive decorations. Dare to dress up a Halloween tree!