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
Which dollar store did you get these from?
The Dollar Tree
Never in a million years would I have thought about doing this. I LOVE this! I am always looking for fun ways to decorate our house (and now my office) for Halloween. This is fantastic!
I guess another trip to the Dollar Tree is in order (never mind the fact that I was just there today for another fun, easy and inexpensive project)!
Okay, I’m a little bit obsessed with this 🙂 how creative!!! I went to Dollar Tree today and they actually have little Halloween villages out so I picked them up. They are dark colored but I’m debating painting them black still because yours looks so fabulous. Yours don’t really appear all dark black though – is that just shadows from the picture? Or did you make your paint lighter in some places? I cannot wait to make my own. Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
Hi Desiree – I just wanted to let you know that this was a great project, and I was inspired to do my own version – http://apartmentfarm.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/pinterest-project-halloween-haunted-village/. Thanks for posting it!
Looks great Amanda!
Oh my goodness! Thank you for the inspiration! My daughter loves it! I blogged about what we did to make a spooky town like you!
http://www.houseandhone.com/2013/10/halloween-spooky-town-inspired-by-36th.html
Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
Emily @ house and hone
Looks great! They are so fun and easy to make 🙂
Thanks for your quick reply, I was able to order the 61 piece set for $36. But it doesn’t have that cute gate like yours that looks so sinister in black! Can’t wait to do this. Plan to do half the set for Halloween and half in white for Christmas. So amazing thanks …I’m obsessed!
Love your village! Which dollar store sells those. I’ve been looking around, maybe it’s too soon?
I got it at The Dollar Tree. I have other readers that have found their Christmas Villages already. Good luck!
This is so cute. And using the playdoh was genius. I bet I’ll use that idea in another project someday. I can’t wait to make my village.
i love this. can’t wait to create, and put in my entrance. thank you for sharing.
I found your idea on Pinterest today and went straight to the Dollar Store! We had a family craft day and my hubby and kids (16, 14, & 11) all had a great time! We even made some of our own accessories (like tombstones and skulls) with air dry clay. Thanks for the inspiration!
How fun Rosie! Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting with us.