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
Creepy, creepy! I also love the dollar store. Found some little wooden tables in the the dollhouse furniture section to which I added larger tops, painted black and now they are the potions tables in Snape’s classroom in my miniature Hogwarts!
Cute idea! Love it.
Awesome! Truly genius!
Aloha,
Charlie
I have a massive Christmas village, and have always been interested in a Halloween village. They can be so expensive though!!
This is such a great way to get started! 🙂
How smart is that? I would never have even thought of this is a million years! Love it
Oh my heavens, you are awesome! Such a great idea. LOVE it!!! XO
Thank you my love! Krstyn, we still have to talk 😉
Great idea! I love the way this looks. 🙂
These are adorable! I buy all my Halloween decorations at Dollar Tree, but this is so much more creative than just buying them off the shelf.
Brilliant! Hilarious! Adorable. Man….I wish I’d thought of that!
Bravo! Standing-O to you, Desiree.
<3 Christina at I Gotta Create!
Hahahahaaaa! You are too cool! Love you girl 😉
D– I suggest you go and look-up the rap song “All Black Everything”– I deem this your theme for this Halloween!!