Halloween Decorations don’t have to be expensive. DIY Halloween Crafts are so fun to make and today I’m sharing how to make a Halloween Village in minutes for ten dollar! I love this!
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You gotta to love the Dollar Store!
Where else can you get a Halloween Village for $10?
Check out ours… My kids love it!
TUTORIAL
At the Dollar Store they now have their Christmas houses, trees and little ceramic figurines.
Get as many as you want to be part of your village.
We chose the people that could look a bit suspicious.
The man caring a bag on his back, the people burying something.
Eek… so spooky!
The first thing you want to do is to spray paint everything in black.
The faces of the figurines are scary as they are so we put some play dough on top of them to protect them from the paint.
After, it was time to turn the village dark.
Spray paint everything, the houses, the trees, the people.
Don’t worry about painting it perfectly.
To give the houses and the figurines some dimension I used Glitter Gloss Enamels.
I didn’t paint the entire houses with the enamel, just a little bit here and there to highlight the roofs
and the frames of the doors and windows… the same with the figurines, just a few highlights.
Look at the people, they don’t look so sweet anymore.
Boo Waa Haaaa Haaa Haaa!
At this point all we had to do was to display the Village.
Make it look realistic, use boxes and candle holders to make different levels.
Add fake spider webs to give the effect of fog and lights to create shadows.
We even added some glue dots to the plastic bats we found also at the Dollar Store.
{ They were bat rings, just cut the backs off of them}
So? Are you going to make your own?
So spooky!
Last year I did something similar for Christmas.
I gave a Dollar Store Christmas Village a makeover.
I loved how they turned out. So pretty.
You can see the tutorial for our DIY Christmas Village here.
Don’t you love Halloween?
We do!
Besos!
Desirée
I love this! I’m crazy about villages especially Halloween ones! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial, I am off to Dollar Tree tonight 🙂
Oh fun! Thank you for the visit!
That came out so adorable!!!!!!!!!! I love our creativity. I bet the kids are just loving it.
Thank you Gina!
Seriously, this is one of those posts that make me want to smack my forehead saying why didn’t I think of that!
~Bliss~
I know… right? Thank you for the visit Bliss!
That is hilarious! Innocently playing in the snow becomes an apparent mugging.
There is the power of color for you. Thank you for stopping by!
I love how it turned out. My kids also want a Halloween village and I told them that I’d check the Dollar Store to see if they had anything we could use. So nice to see the final product before I even get started!
Girl you never cease to amaze me how creative you are!! Such a cute idea!!
xoxo=pero en español, besos y abrazos ja ja
I take besos y abrazons anyday of the week!
Thank you my friend!
I love this!!! Thanks for sharing. Hugs, Penny
Thank you for Penny. Have a wonderful day!
Ha! This is great and super fun and a bit scary. 🙂
Great, fun and scary… Love it!
Thank you Eva for stopping by!
Which Dollar Store do you find these amazing things at? The Dollar Stores by me NEVER have anything fun like I find on blogs and it totally bums me out. Maybe I will just drive around searching today.
Haily, I am sure they have them. If you don’t see them ask them, they may help you find them. Thank you for the visit and have fun making your own.
So clever! What a great idea!
Kate
Thank you Kate!