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
Just bought my village and I’m so excited to do this! One question, did you use colored glitter or just clear with silver glitter?
I used glittered paint.
I just made this village and it turned out awesome! I bought the firemen figurines and turned them into Freddy Krueger and Jason (from Halloween). I filed down one fireman hat to look like Freddy’s fedora, and filed the other one completely off for Jason. Freddy’s figurine was already carrying an AX! Awesome! Then I filed most of the firehose off Jason’s figurine and turned the part he was holding into a machete. Thanks for your idea!
Janis, I am so glad you made them. They are awesome. We love ours!
How awesome! love the idea of changing the firemen into Freddy and Jason…thanks so much for sharing, totally stealing your ideas!!
Hahaha! i love that!
Have a wonderful and Happy New Year!
This is so clever! I love it, what a great idea! I love the $ store for Halloween….thanks for sharing!
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Not quite as nice as yours, but I’m pretty proud of it!
Thanks for the great idea! I love how it turned out and can’t wait to add more to it.
Brianna, they look GREAT! I love them!
I saw this, told my husband to get out of the lazy boy! We’re heading to the dollar store! I am giddy!! I cant wait to get started, this is such a great idea!
You are going to have so much fun! We love it!
LOVE this idea…I am totally bummed my Dollar Tree doesn’t have the gazebo, but it will turn out amazing just the same!! Just a quick question…is the Glitter Gloss Enamel just Glitter Paint or is it a bit different? Where did you get it?
Julie, you can use glitter paint since you are not going to bake the paint. You can find it at Michaels.
Also, did you paint the village black or a dark charcoal grey?
I painted it black.
Love this idea. I’ve already gone out and picked up a few pieces from Dollar Tree. Started spray painting tonight. Thanks for sharing.
Just got back from the Dollar Tree and canNOT wait to start this project! Never in a million years would I have thought to recreate these into a Halloween villiage. I am so glad I stumbled onto this post. Brilliant!! I’m gonna have to some digging into the rest of this site so see what other brilliant ideas you’ve had!
That’s awesome Carly. You are going to love it. It is so quick and fun to do. Enjoy your project!
I’m gonna cry in a minute… the Dollar Store is just a few continents away >.<
All I can do is hope that the corresponding pound shops over here start banging out similar stuff, because I can't see how I could ever be happy again without my very own haunted village.
Good luck with the one 😉
Thank you so much for stopping by. Wishing you a great day!
You know I am so grateful for people like you and for pinterest, because I love to craft but I’m not that creative but you are and don’t mind sharing your ideas. I can copy though, I’m real good at that! lol
Thank you so much Sandra for stopping by and living me such a sweet comment.