Canal Winchester, Ohio · All October

Tour of Skeletons

Join us all month long for the Canal Winchester Tour of Skeletons (and Skeleton Competition). Come drive around Canal Winchester and see our community’s creativity as they display their home-made skeleton displays!

Four skeletons dressed in Ohio State Buckeyes shirts and hats with arms raised along a wooden fence, below pumpkins spelling GO BUCKS Iconic Bones display: skeletons dressed as Cruella de Vil, Hulk Hogan, Dolly Parton, Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe, each with a tombstone, beside a hand-painted Iconic Bones sign Night display: a skeleton in a purple dress with glowing pink and yellow wings beside a giant pumpkin-headed skeleton with a glowing ribcage, with a sign reading MY MAN, surrounded by purple lights Top-hatted skeleton with a scythe walking a skeleton dog and cat across a front lawn, with skeletons crawling toward a row of tombstones Front-yard graveyard: caped skeletons playing trumpet and clarinet among tombstones reading Yule B. Next, Otta B. Alive and Rylee Saurus Rex, under a Welcome sign Night display: a laundry-basket cage hung in a pine tree, decorated with tinsel and disco balls, with a sign reading Bling Bearer Skeleton wedding under a flowered arch: a skeleton bride in a veil, a groom in a red number 8 jersey and a flower girl, beside a sign reading It’s a Love Story, Baby Just Say Yes
Displays from past Tours of Skeletons

Skeleton Competition

Enter your display

Calling for anyone who wishes to participate in the 43110-area code!

Create a skeleton display following the rules. Exhibit your display throughout the month of October. Members of the Canal Winchester community are invited to vote for their favorites. Last day to vote: October 28.

Vote for your favorite (Google Form, opens in a new window) Read the rules (PDF) View display locations (Google map, opens in a new window)

Prize categories

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories.

  • 01Largest
  • 02Funniest
  • 03Most Creative
  • 04Best Cemetery or Ensemble Scene

More seasonal events in Canal Winchester

Check the community calendar for dates.