Halloween is on Saturday, October 31
For the kids at your door and the friends at your party: a ghost in every glass and a pumpkin you poured yourself are what they talk about on the way home, not the decorations from the shop.
Make it yourself
Each idea opens the tool that makes it, with a ready design to start from where there is one.
For the friends coming over: four little ghosts per tray, floating face up in the punch bowl.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Ghost ice cube tray moldFor the table or the porch step. A rigid two-part mold: clamp it, pour the wax, light it on the night.
Open the Rigid box mold tool Ready-made: Jack-o-lantern candle moldFor the kids at the door: twelve skulls per pour, from a food-safe silicone tray you make from the print.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Chocolate skull tray moldFor the kids: they draw the monster, you upload the drawing, and everybody eats it.
Open the Cookie cutter tool Ready-made: Halloween cookie cutter set with stampsFor the windowsill: two honeycomb halves that close round a battery LED tea light.
Open the Mesh former tool Ready-made: Mesh pumpkin lanternFor the front step, every autumn from now on. Concrete wants a day in the mold, so start this one first.
Open the Silicone mold maker tool Ready-made: Concrete pumpkin moldFor whoever throws the party: a bag of melts you poured in your own colours.
Open the Tray mold tool Ready-made: Candy corn wax melt tray moldFor every kid on the walk: their name on their bag, so nothing gets mixed up at the end.
Open the Keychain & tags tool29 designs · print times from 40 min
Candle wax
A little sheet ghost with big eyes and an "o" mouth, 86 mm tall. A rigid two-part print for Halloween candles.
Sealing wax
Six spooky wax seal stamps: a pumpkin, a bat, a ghost, a web, a witch hat and a skull, one screw-on handle and a 28 mm plate each.
Ice
Four little ghost ice cubes per tray, eyes and an "o" mouth included. A food-safe silicone Halloween ice mold you make yourself.
A hollow mesh ghost in two halves that snap together on printed pins, with a hanging hole on top of its head.
Clay
Flying bats with scalloped wings and crescent moons for Halloween clay and pottery. A spooky flock, every bat at its own tilt.
Six Halloween cookie cutters, each with a stamp: jack-o'-lantern, ghost, bat, witch hat, cauldron and candy corn.
Concrete
A classic ribbed pumpkin, 120 mm across, to cast in concrete for fall decor. A silicone mold kit from printed parts.
Concrete
A tall ribbed pumpkin, 125 mm high, to cast in concrete for your porch or mantel. A silicone mold kit from printed parts.
Concrete
A squat heirloom pumpkin, 150 mm across with deep lobes, to cast in concrete. A silicone mold kit from printed parts.
Resin
A coffin trinket dish for resin, Jesmonite or concrete. Two per pour, from a silicone tray you make yourself.
Clay
Rows of skulls stacked between courses of long bones, for crypts, catacombs and necromancer lairs. An ossuary wall, seamless all round.
Chocolate
Twelve chocolate skulls per pour. A food-safe silicone tray you make yourself, eye sockets and teeth included.
Candle wax
Twelve candy corn wax melts per pour, with lines where the colours change. From a silicone tray you make yourself.
Candle wax
Four Halloween wax melt snap bars per pour: bat, ghost, jack-o-lantern, skull, moon and spider on every bar.
Concrete
Four spider web coasters with a spider on each, cast in concrete straight into a printed tray.
A printed cap that marks a skull over RIP on a golf ball. A memorial, drawn in advance, for a ball with a short life ahead.
Soap
A brain-shaped soap bar for a proper brainwash: 90 mm, folds and all, as a silicone mold from printed parts.
Clay
Four Halloween earring cutters for polymer clay: a ghost, a bat, a pumpkin and a coffin.
Candle wax
A coffin candle, 92 mm tall: the six-sided outline standing upright, a raised lid panel and a cross on the front. A rigid two-part print.
Candle wax
Six plump pumpkin wax melts per pour, ribbed and with a little stem, from a silicone tray you make yourself.
Candle wax
A jack-o'-lantern candle, 70 mm tall: a squat pumpkin with a carved triangle-eyed, toothy grin and a curly stem. A rigid two-part print.
Clay
A four-piece plaster mold for slip casting an eight-lobed pumpkin votive or jar, 110 mm across.
Concrete
Two carved R I P tombstones for a Halloween graveyard, cast in concrete straight in a printed tray.
A round, ribbed pumpkin with a stem. Halloween faces or plain autumn, both work.
A friendly waving ghost with a scalloped hem. The easiest Halloween cookie to ice.
A honeycomb pumpkin for Halloween: two halves round an LED tea light, with a hanging hole in the stem.
A wide-winged Halloween bat with pointed ears and scalloped wing edges.
Candle wax
A 76 mm pumpkin candle with eight lobes and a curved stem, as a silicone mold.
The 💀 skull, "I'm dead", as a cookie cutter with a stamp that presses in the eyes, nose and teeth.
Timing
Halloween is on Saturday, October 31, 2026. Start by Saturday, October 24 and every step below fits, with a spare evening for a second pour.
Short on time? These are printed and done the same day: Cookies cut from your kids' monster drawings, A pumpkin lantern you print flat, Name tags for the candy bags.
From under an hour for a cookie cutter to overnight for a palm-sized mold.
Only if the design is a silicone mold kit. Pour it once and let it cure: 4 to 24 hours.
Wax cools right through in 4 to 6 hours. Plaster opens in 30 to 60 minutes and dries in a day or two. Concrete wants at least 24 hours in the mold.
Paint, seal, scent or pack it, and keep one spare evening for a second pour.
Questions
About a week before. A cookie cutter prints in under an hour and a palm-sized mold prints overnight. Silicone needs 4 to 24 hours to cure and a wax candle 4 to 6 hours to cool right through. Concrete pumpkins take longest: at least 24 hours in the mold. Add a few days if you still have to order silicone or wax.
Anything you print and use as it is: a cookie cutter, a name tag for a candy bag, or the mesh pumpkin lantern, whose two nets print in about 80 minutes each. Anything cast in silicone needs a night for the silicone to cure first.
Not on the print itself: the layer lines hold residue that no wash reaches. The chocolate and ice designs here are casters. You print one, pour a food-safe platinum silicone into it, and only that silicone touches food. Check that your silicone is sold as food safe.
Print the master and housing from the concrete pumpkin design, pour a silicone mold round the master once, then cast concrete in the silicone as often as you like. Use a fine casting mix, tap the air out, and leave it at least 24 hours before you demold.
Yes. Photograph the drawing and upload it as a PNG or JPG to the free cookie cutter maker. It traces the outline and builds a cutter you can print in under an hour. Thick dark lines on plain paper trace best.
