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!
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 just love this idea so much. I bought 12 of the little houses plus people. Spray painted it black and added some grey and glitter paint with orange accents. I just love how it turned out and for about $20. I have wanted one of the villages for years, but just couldn’t afford it. My kids even made a little graveyard out of mold & bake clay. Thanks so much for the great idea.
You are very welcome Mindie!
This is a very creative idea and so appreciate you sharing so we can enjoy it also Thank you.
You are very welcome… Thank you for the visit!
Brilliant idea.
This is the best idea, I am so in love with it I might have to do it myself. Love love love it. Sharing on my Facebook page today.
Lisa @ creative raisins
As soon as I seen these at my dollar tree this is exactly what I wanted to do. You made my impulsive thought a reality 🙂
I just had to let you know what a wonderful idea, also. We all seem to like this. Thanks alot for sharing.
Most excellent! Definitely going to try this. LOVE! Found you via Pinterest. Hugs!
This is great! Now I want to dig through my attic to find the pieces I bought last year at the dollar store and make this.
Me and my 4-year old did this project over the weekend. Our Halloween Village is now up taking center stage on the fireplace mantle. It looks awesome. Thanks so much for this awesome and CHEAP way to spookify our house! xox
I am so happy you made it! We love ous too 🙂
I just spray painted my buildings and I’m already in love with this project! Next it’s painting the details and setting it up. Thanks so much for sharing this!