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Heads on Sticks: Halloween Decoration

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Light up your Halloween Trail with this easy DIY skull-on-a-stick project using sticks, lights, and plastic skulls for a creepy, glowing path display.

Unlit skull-on-a-stick Halloween decorations lining a yard in the afternoon sun.
Plastic skull mounted on a stick along a Halloween trail during daylight.
Trail marker made from stick and plastic skull with internal lights.

I needed a simple project for our Halloween Trail this year so I decided to take some sticks and some skulls and make some heads on a stick to light our spooky Halloween Trail. 

This is a super easy project. 

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Heads on a Stick: Skull Themed Halloween Decoration for Lighting the Trail

Project Supplies

  • Sticks
  • Skulls
  • Drill & drill bits
  • Small battery operated string lights

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1: Take your skull and use a small drill and bit to drill a hole in the bottom that your lights and stick can fit through. 

Plastic skull with a hole drilled at the bottom for light insertion.
Close-up of drilled hole in the base of a plastic skull for inserting Halloween lights.

Step 2: Use the drill to poke holes where the eyes are … Or wherever else you want! It was fun to experiment with different areas to see how they looked!

Row of DIY glowing skulls on sticks creating spooky Halloween lighting.
Halloween pathway at night with skulls on glowing stakes.

Step 3: Take a stick and carve the end so it’s nice and pointy and will stick in the ground. 

Step 4: Feed your lights through the hole in the bottom of the skull. 

Plastic skull lit from within by red LED lights for Halloween.
Plastic skull with internal lighting mounted on wooden stake in yard.

Step 5: Push your stick into the ground and place the head on top.

DIY skull stake glowing in the dark with eerie red lights.
Close-up of lit skull on stick placed along outdoor Halloween trail.

All done. Just turn that light on when it’s time for your Halloween Trail!

Skull with glowing eyes mounted on a stick lighting up a nighttime Halloween path.

Glowing plastic skull mounted on a stick, lighting up a Halloween trail at night. Let me know if you'd like variations for different styles (eerie, playful, budget-friendly, etc.)!

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