Where To Find Free SVGS For Lighted Halloween Shadow Boxes
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Reminder - I'm an affiliate for several sites, and if you click on the links for FREE SVGS in this post and then make a purchase, I could possibly make a few cents in commission. As always, this is no way effects the price you pay.
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This was the October 2023 freebie from Nice To Cut. I keep a list of free this month only designs - and the majority of the list is shadow boxes. Designers offer them for free for ONE MONTH ONLY. Check the list each month, here:
Free svg from
Free from
The size on this one is different.. but if you cut the yellow from a yellow vellum and put a light behind it, this could be really cool. :-)
Not actually a shadow box - but isn't this a neat idea? Put vinyl on vellum, attach it to your pumpkin.. it's a cheat version of pumpkin carving. :-)
Two different trick or treat dioramas
A Halloween Slice Form SVG, Free from:
A Halloween Slice Form From
Free svg from
What exactly is going on here? Maybe for a Halloween Birthday Party? I have no idea - I'm just sharing it because it is free.
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NOT FREE
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This one is just $1
NOT a free file
This is the one I made in 2023 - so quick and easy, I really like the file.
But I think I should make the ghost layer glow in the dark...
NOT a free file, this is the one I made in 2021
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SHADOW POEMS
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My Shadow
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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To My Shadow
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A mute companion at my side
Paces and plods, the whole day long,
Accepts the measure of my stride,
Yet gives no cheer by word or song.
More close than any doggish friend,
Not ranging far and wide, like him,
He goes where'er my footsteps tend,
Nor shrinks for fear of life or limb.
I do not know when first we met,
But till each day's bright hours are done
This grave and speechless silhouette
Keeps me betwixt him and the sun.
They say he knew me when a child;
Born with my birth, he dies with me;
Not once from his long task beguiled,
Though sin or shame bid others flee.
What if, when all this world of men
Shall melt and fade and pass away,
This deathless sprite should rise again
And be himself my Judgment Day?
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Shadows
By Thomas Durfee
How much of earth’s beauty is due to its shadows!
The tree and the cliff and the far-floating cloudlet,
The uniform light intercepting and crossing,
Give manifold color and change to the landscape.
How much, too, our life is in debt to its shadows;
To griefs that refine us and cares that develope,
And wants that keep friendship and love from decaying;
With nothing to cross us we perish of ennui.
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I saw a young mother
With eyes full of laughter
And two little shadows
Came following after.
Wherever she moved,
They were always right there
Holding onto her skirts,
Hanging onto her chair.
Before her, behind her—
An adhesive pair.
“Don’t you ever get weary
As, day after day,
your two little tagalongs
Get in your way?”
She smiled as she shook
Her pretty young head,
And I’ll always remember
The words that she said.
“It’s good to have shadows
That run when you run,
That laugh when you’re happy
And hum when you hum—
For you only have shadows
When your life’s filled with sun.”
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