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
HA! This is a fantastic idea! Actually made me giggle thinking about turning a happy Christmas village into a creepy, old town with “suspicious” people. Love how your brain works!
This is really clever! I may have to make a stop. I’ve had an idea in my head for a few days, and this might help it along! Thanks!
I just called my fiance when I saw this and told him that our plans for tonight may have just changed. I love making my own decorations from pieces at Dollar Tree and I can’t wait to try this one out! Great thinking!
Have fun Chelsea. They are so easy to make. You are going to love them!
I’ve been following you on Pinterest – I just love this idea! I did something similar with a plastic little girls doll house, but I’ll be running out to the dollar store today for both the Halloween and Christmas ones! My kids are in love with the villages at Michael’s, thanks for the idea, they’ll love it too!
Oh your kids are going to love you. This was so much fun to make.
i will be heading out to my local dollar tree, this is an amazing idea, thank you so much for shareing. Love your ideas!!!!! 🙂
Thank you Jessica. Have fun!
Super cute idea!
Thank you Heather! Everytime I go to the Dollar Store I think about you girl.
Desiree – that looks amazing!!!!! I love it! I have Dollar stores in my area but mine NEVER have stuff like this! I’m so jealous!
Desiree,
You are always coming up with something fantastic! What a great idea.
Just an awesome idea. And it looks great. So spooky…..
Jacque
This is so amazing! Who’d a thought???? I really have to start jogging my brain to see what I can come up with…but I don’t have to, because you already do! Love it!