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 was depressed to see all the xmas decorations out already, until I got to the dollar store and saw these.. They are out earlier this year then last year.. Got a bunch of to make a haunted village, cant wait!
Have fun Ginna!
I am going this afternoon. I love this! How cool is that.
Have fun Paula! They look great at the end and it will save you a ton of money!
I’m so excited, I just picked up my Christmas village from Dollar Tree the other day. I’m ready to paint and decorate!
Kerri… YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT! Have fun 🙂
Found mine at the Dollar Tree. The assortment was great as not many had started thinking about Christmas. My little characters look very chilling after painting. How fun! Thank you for the great ideas!
I am so glas you gave it a try… now I can’t wait to display mine 🙂
I snagged a bunch of houses and accessories today. Made me not mind *quite* so much that there is Xmas stuff out so soon! 😉
Hahaha! Good for you Jen… Have fun girl!
I just bought my village can’t wait to see how it turns out!!!!
Oh Tona! You are going to love it!
I love this idea! Can’t wait to see if my Dollar Tree is selling these yet!
Guess what my Halloween-inspired peeps! I just went to the Dollar Tree website and you can order your 36-piece Christmas Village! You can also have it delivered to your local Dollar Tree Store for FREE!!! Get busy peeps, Halloween is quickly approaching – Bwa-ha-ha!
Love it!
I LOVE your Halloween village! Which “Dollar Store” did you purchase your village from? Dollar tree, dollar General. 99 cent Store? I’m so Inspired, but running out of time – having our October BUNCO at our home & want to do this before!
Pam, they came from the Dollar Tree.
Try Dollar Tree online
My Dollar Tree didn’t have them either. I think they got tired of me asking for them. I tried Walmart today and they have them for $1 too. They don’t have the people for $1 so I will try a different Dollar Tree.