Dollar Tree Trick or Treat Frame

Trick or Treat, smell my feet give me something fun to make! This Dollar Tree Trick or Treat Frame is just the project to make this Halloween. Its fast, easy, fun, and affordable so its the perfect DIY to add to your spOOky holiday decor!

DIY Dollar Tree Trick or Treat Frame made with a Halloween card and a huge messy bow with candy corn, orange, black, and a jumbo googly eye in the center.

Gotta love the good ‘ole Dollar (25) Tree! But don’t forget to keep an open mind when you’re shopping there. This craft was made with one of the Halloween cards, but I didn’t decide to use it as a card at all!

How stinkin’ cute does this Trick or Treat Frame look with that adorable little BOO ghost craft!? Ahhh I just love it!

A foam cone mummy, a mini Boo ghost decor, the Dollar Tree Trick or Treat frame with messy bow and a large pumpkin sitting on a bookcase.

DT makes some of the absolute cutest cards, so next time you’re there pick a few up, take them apart, and get to crafting with them. Next thing you know you’ll have an adorable Trick or Treat Layered frame like you see below!

I’m a sucker for a fun and unique color palette for Halloween (or other Holidays too). Heck, I did an entire rainbow Halloween theme 2 years ago and made this adorable Rainbow Bling Coffin banner, but I do love that this Dollar Tree Trick or Treat frame has the traditional Halloween colors! (and that spOOky googly eye doesn’t hurt)

Sometimes ya just gotta go traditional. So today, that’s what we’ll do!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Trick or Treat Layered Frame

Supplies needed to make a DIY Halloween decoration with a Dollar Tree greeting card, tumbling tower blocks, and fabric and ribbon.

Wooden clipboard frame
Tumbling Tower blocks (or a black Dollar Tree frame)
Trick or Treat card
White paint
Black paint
Variety of coordinating fabric and ribbon
Zip tie
Jumbo googly eye
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Dollar Tree Trick or Treat Frame

I made this super cute Halloween Trick or Treat Frame on video, so you can WATCH it or click on the picture right below.

Amanda holding the completed project on a Facebook Live thumbnail.

Watch the video here

I used a wooden clipboard frame from Michaels. They sell them year round and they are only .99! I love it because it comes with the little stand so it stays up on it’s own.

First I painted the entire thing all white.

The back of the wooden clipboard frame showing the stand.

Then I painted a slew of Jenga (tumbling tower) blocks all black. I framed the outside of my card first, to see how many I needed to paint and that ended up being 12.

The jenga blocks painted black and outlining the Trick or Treat card as if it were a frame.

Next just glue your Halloween Trick or Treat card to the front of the white painted frame using hot glue, and then glue the Jenga block ‘frame’ around it.

If you happened to have a plain black frame, you could use that as well, and just stick the card inside the frame and glue the whole thing to the wood clipboard. That would actually be much easier, but I didn’t have a plain black frame so Jenga blocks it it.

The bottom of the project showing the jenga blocks glued around the Halloween card like a frame.

We can’t forget the big beautiful messy and spOOky bow! To make this messy bow you are going to want a variety of color, size, texture, and patterned ribbon and fabric. The more variety the better! Cut them into 7-9″ strips (don’t worry you can trim up your bow once it’s all done).

Layer them in an “X” formation criss crossing them on top of each other. Don’t worry about using a lot of ribbon, the bigger and better because I like big bows and I cannot lie!

Big messy bow with candy corn ribbon and halloween colored fabric with a googly eye in the center of the bow.

Now pinch the middle and tie a zip tie around the center and pull it as tight as you can. Glue the bow to your project FIRST and then fluff fluff fiddle and fluff some more. I like to spread out the ribbon pieces and then trim up a bunch in the front, so that you can see the rest of the ribbon behind it. See how my front pieces are shorter?

Finish it off with a jumbo googly eye right in the center of the bow and you’ve got yourself the cutest little Dollar Tree Trick or Treat layered frame that ya ever did see!

Are you going to make a Dollar Tree Trick or Treat Frame for Halloween? Shoot…are you gonna make anything for Halloween?! If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations.

If you need some more Halloween Inspo for this year, then you may love the Dollar Tree Haunted Beware Sign or the Spooky Witch Hat that you see below!

Halloween themed decorations on a bookcase with a witches hat, a haunted house beware sign, a mummy, a pumpkin, the trick or treat frame and a fabric banner.

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