Halloween Crochet Ideas: 19 Life-Size Monsters to Make This Year

Paper bats and plastic skeletons are everywhere in October. A crocheted monster the size of a person is not. Life-size amigurumi have become the statement Halloween decoration: soft enough to sit on the sofa all season, big enough to stop people on the street.

Start here: the easiest giants

If you can crochet a sphere — rounds of single crochet with increases and decreases — you can make most life-size pieces. These are rated Easy:

• The cuddle ghost with pumpkin (150 cm) — basically one big shape with a wavy hem
• The giant mummy (175 cm) — loose bandages forgive everything
• The couch zombie (170 cm) — designed to slump
• The ghost bride (165 cm) — veil and dead-rose bouquet
• The black widow spider (2 m legspan)
• The hanging vampire bat (2.5 m wingspan)

For a challenge: the intermediate monsters

• Wendigo, 210 cm — antlers and impossibly long arms
• Werewolf, 190 cm — shaggy fur and a torn flannel shirt
• Grim reaper, 190 cm — hood, bony hands and a full scythe
• Vampire, 180 cm — cape, collar, fangs and medallion
• Plague doctor, 175 cm — beak, goggles and wide-brim hat
• Mothman, 175 cm — red eyes and 2 m of wings
• Headless horseman, 185 cm — holding a pumpkin head that can glow

Where to put them

• On the porch — the spider and the bat are made for it
• On the sofa — the zombie and the vampire sit like guests
• In a window — the wendigo looks in from outside
• At the table — the haunted doll and the plague doctor sit upright

Plan your timeline

A life-size piece is a project of several evenings to a few weeks. If you want it out for October, start in September; chenille is fast, but assembly and the frame take time.

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