Celebrate the spooky season in style with the Happy Halloween Wreath, a playful crochet project that’s bursting with festive fright and handmade delight! 🎃🕸️ With cheerful pumpkins, grinning ghosts, and a bold spider perched on its web, this wreath is the perfect mix of spooky and sweet. The bold “Happy Halloween” lettering ties it all together, making it a standout piece for your front door, party décor, or cozy corner of seasonal fun.
This pattern is a treat for crocheters who love mixing textures, colors, and character-driven details. You can customize each element—give your ghosts rosy cheeks, make your spider extra fuzzy, or play with pumpkin expressions to suit your vibe. Whether you’re welcoming trick-or-treaters or crafting a centerpiece for your haunted home, the Happy Halloween Wreath is sure to cast a spell of joy—one stitch at a time! 🧶👻
Crochet Happy Halloween Wreath Pattern
Bring a touch of spooky charm to your home this Halloween with this delightful crochet wreath! Featuring bold purple-and-black stripes, cheeky pumpkins, friendly little ghosts, and a big-eyed spider dangling from its web, this project is the perfect mix of creepy and cute. Whether you’re a seasoned crocheter or just looking for a festive weekend project, this wreath will make your front door or wall pop with handmade Halloween spirit.
✨ Skill Level – Intermediate
This project is rated Intermediate because it combines several techniques:
- Amigurumi basics – crocheting in the round, increasing, and decreasing (for pumpkins, ghosts, spider, and letters).
- Shaping and assembly – attaching small parts like ghost arms, spider legs, pumpkin stems, and sewing letters in place.
- Color changes – making the striped black-and-purple wreath base.
- Appliqué and embroidery – adding pumpkin faces, ghost mouths, and spider smiles with yarn embroidery.
- Structural work – creating a web with chains and attaching it firmly so the spider can “hang” in the middle.
👉 If you’re comfortable with making amigurumi shapes and sewing parts together neatly, you’ll be able to complete this wreath. Beginners who want a challenge can also attempt it by taking it step by step.
📏 Finished Size
~30–35 cm diameter (with 30 cm foam base).
🧶 Materials
- Black yarn – wreath stripes, spider, letter shaping
- Purple yarn – wreath stripes, “HAPPY HALLOWEEN” letters
- Orange yarn – pumpkins, spider mouth
- Green yarn – pumpkin stems
- White yarn – ghosts, spider eyes, web
- Black yarn/thread – facial embroidery
- Foam wreath base – 30 cm diameter
- Safety eyes (10 mm) for ghosts (optional)
- Crochet hook: 3.0–3.5 mm
- Yarn needle, stuffing, scissors, stitch markers
🧾 Abbreviations (US Terms)
MR = magic ring
sc = single crochet
inc = increase (2 sc in same st)
dec = decrease (sc2tog)
ch = chain
sl st = slip stitch
st(s) = stitch(es)
FO = fasten off
🎃 Components
Wreath Base (Striped Black & Purple)
Make long tubes to cover foam ring.
- Ch enough to wrap snugly around foam (~36). Join to form ring.
- Work sc in rounds until tube length = 10–12 rows.
- Alternate 10–12 rows purple, 10–12 rows black for chunky bands.
- Make enough sections to cover wreath, slide tubes on, sew closed at back.
Pumpkins (Make 2)
Body (Orange):
- MR, 6 sc (6)
- inc around (12)
- (sc, inc) × 6 (18)
- (2 sc, inc) × 6 (24)
5–8. sc around (24) - (2 sc, dec) × 6 (18)
- (sc, dec) × 6 (12)
- dec around (6)
FO, stuff.
👉 Slightly flatten pumpkin. With orange yarn, embroider vertical ridges top to bottom to create “segments.”
Stem (Green):
- MR, 6 sc (6)
- sc around (6) for 2 rows only.
FO. Sew stem to top.
Face:
- Embroider triangle eyes + jagged smile with black yarn.
Ghosts (Make 2)
Body (White):
- MR, 6 sc (6)
- inc around (12)
- (sc, inc) × 6 (18)
4–7. sc around (18) - (sc, dec) × 6 (12)
- sc around (12)
FO, stuff lightly.
Ruffle Bottom:
Attach white yarn at base. (ch 3, sl st in next st) repeat around for wavy hem.
Arms (Make 2 each):
Ch 7, sc back (6). FO. Attach to sides, angled upward.
Face:
- Use safety eyes or crochet mini circles (MR, 6 sc).
- Embroider oval mouth with black yarn below eyes.
Spider 🕷️
Body (Black):
- MR, 6 sc (6)
- inc around (12)
- (sc, inc) × 6 (18)
- (2 sc, inc) × 6 (24)
5–7. sc around (24) - (2 sc, dec) × 6 (18)
- (sc, dec) × 6 (12)
- dec around (6). FO, stuff.
Legs (Make 8):
Ch 15, sc across (14). FO. Sew 4 legs to each side, curve them slightly outward.
Eyes:
White bases: MR, 6 sc, FO (make 2).
Black pupils: MR, 4 sc, FO (make 2).
Sew black pupils on white bases. Attach to spider face.
Mouth:
With orange yarn, ch 6, sc back. Sew as a crescent smile.
Web 🕸️
- Use white thread or yarn.
- Attach one strand from wreath top to spider head → this is the “hanger.”
- Add 6–8 spokes radiating from spider to wreath ring.
- Connect spokes with 2–3 chain loops to form concentric circles.
👉 Spider should dangle centered inside wreath.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Letters (3D)
Make letters thick like amigurumi tubes.
General Method (Purple):
- Ch desired length for letter part.
- sc in rounds around chain to make narrow tube (~6 sts around).
- Shape tubes into letters (H, A, P, etc.).
- Sew tubes onto wreath base.
👉 Each letter is stuffed lightly to hold its 3D form.
🪡 Assembly Order
- Cover wreath with striped tubes (purple + black).
- Attach pumpkins at bottom left and right.
- Sew ghosts beside pumpkins, arms raised.
- Create web, attach spider so it hangs centered.
- Sew “HAPPY HALLOWEEN” letters across bottom.
- Add black ribbon loop at top to hang.
And there you have it – your very own Halloween wreath, stitched with love and just the right amount of spookiness! With its playful ghosts, grinning pumpkins, and centerpiece spider, it’s sure to bring smiles (and maybe a few fun shivers) to everyone who sees it. Hang it proudly on your door, gift it to a Halloween-loving friend, or use it as a unique party decoration – either way, this handmade wreath will become a festive favorite year after year. 🎃👻🕷️
