Turn Dollar Tree Halloween treat bags into the cutest pumpkin garland on the block! This DIY craft is the perfect mix of spooky, sweet, and so affordable, you’ll want to hang it everywhere this Fall.

Get ready to add some budget-friendly charm to your Fall and Halloween decor with this Dollar Tree Pumpkin Treat Bag Garland!

In this DIY craft tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn simple treat bags into the cutest garland that’s perfect for decorating your mantel, mirror, or doorway this season.

Follow along as I show you step-by-step in a video, how to make this adorable garland using inexpensive Dollar Tree finds.

Supplies needed to make a Dollar Tree Pumpkin Treat Bag Garland

• Twine
• Dollar Tree Pumpkin Treat Bags (3 Pack)
• Muslin
• Homespun and coordinating fabric
• 3 Rusty Bells
• Polyfil
• Raffia
• Kilz Dark Wax
• Hot glue gun

How to make a Dollar Tree Pumpkin Treat Bag Garland

I made this Treat Bag Garland on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

I used coffee stained Muslin, Homespun, and neutral fabric to make mine, but you can use any colors or patterns to match your style of Fall and Halloween decor.

Need a last minute ADORABLE Halloween DIY? Make sure to check out my Floating Ghost in a Jar! It’s Spooky Cute!

Are you going to make a Dollar Tree Fall Treat Bag Garland? 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’ve got a million projects on your crafting ‘to-do’ list like I do, than you need my FREE Craft Project Planner so you can plan to make *all the things*! When you sign up for the craft planner, I’ll also send you lot’s of fun, easy, and budget friendly ideas for you to fill it up with!

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Don’t throw out those recycled egg cartons! Make these cute wood Easter Egg Lil’ Chicks instead. These Peeps are the perfect addition to your DIY decor for Easter and Spring!

Those wood Easter eggs in your craft stash aren’t just for making EGGS, you can make CHICKS too!

So don’t throw out those empty egg cartons, I’m going to show you how I made these cuties on a Facebook Live replay.

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How to Make Wood Easter Egg Chicks

I made these cute lil Peeps on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

Are you going to make some Cute Easter Egg Chicks with a recycled egg carton? 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.

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Take an ordinary terra cotta pot and turn it into a Bunny for adorable Spring and Easter decor! Hop to it, its almost Easter and Dollar Tree has all the supplies!

Bunnies Bunnies everywhere! That’s what happens when March comes around, and I’m totally here for it!

I’ve got a bazillion trillion of these Terra Cotta Pots in my stash, so of course I decided to turn one into another….BUNNY!

I went with the typical fun and vibrant spring and Easter colors for this one, but you could make her to suit your style by doing softer pastels, or even neutrals if thats more your speed.

Same bunny, different styles, still cute!

I used a 4″ Terra Cotta Pot, but you could also make mini tiered tray size bunnies with the 2″ pots, or a super big bunny for a front porch or something as well.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Terra Cotta Pot Bunny

• 4″ Terra Cotta Pot
• Wired Jute
• Coordinating Spring color ribbon
• Vintage Button
• Small pink paper flower
• Small wood heart
• Primitive rusty wire
• Kraft Paper
• Antique Wax
• Alphabet Stamps
• Tim Holtz Distressed Ink
• Twine
• Paint: White, Black, Pink
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Terra Cotta Pot Bunny for Easter or Spring

I made this Terra Cotta Pot Bunny on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

First I painted the entire terra cotta pot white.

Then I used a finger dauber to grunge it up with Kilz Dark Wax. I just rubbed it around the edges, top, and bottom, as well as a bit on the main part of the pot.

Don’t let the hand painted face intimidate you! I will break it down step by step:

1. Use a fine tip Sharpie to draw the outline of the oval eyes. It’s two ovals, leaning into each other with one overlapping the other.
2. Paint the eyes in black, and use a super thin paint brush to paint a small white line on the left side of each eye.
3. Paint three super thin whispy eyelashes on the bottom outer corners of each eye.
4. Make a small curved line above each eye for the eyebrows.

I used cheap Dollar Store blush to rub on the pink rosy cheeks.

To give the cheeks a little somethin’ somethin’, I took a thin paint brush and made “hashtags” on each cheek,

For the nose I used a super small wood heart, and painted it pink.

For the whiskers, I took some primitive rusty wire and wrapped it around a paint brush to give it the curly look.

Then I hot glued them to the front of the terra cotta pot, and glued the pink heart nose on top. I prefer my nose right side up, some people do the heart upside down, you can do it however you like!

For the ears, I shaped wired jute into the shape and then twisted the ends together at the bottom.

And then hot glued them to the top of the terra cotta pot.

Time for the bow! I ripped up a bunch of cute coordinating fabric into 1″ strips. Each strip was about 15″ long, but they can be longer or shorter.

I used my Bowdabra to make a messy fabric bow, but you totally don’t NEED a bow maker, you can make any type of bow you want.

Once I had the bow tied off I glued it on top of the terra cotta pot in front of the ears.

Of course she needed a little tag! I just ripped a small rectangle of Kraft paper, punched a hole in the top, and then grunged it up with the dark wax again.

I used my absolute FAVE acrylic stamps in the world to stamp on “bunny love”, and added a small pink paper flower to the tag.

I decided to tie the tag with a shoestring twine bow to the top of the bunnys ear. You could also put the tag on the bow.

I finished the bow off with a vintage button embellishment in the center.

Here she is all done in all her glory! Can we say cuteness overload!?

If you need some more Bunny Inspo, this rustic Bunny decor is one of my faves! A different style from this lil’ girl, but adorable nonetheless.

Are you going to make a Terra Cotta Pot Bunny for Easter? 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.

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Take a turn from the traditional pink and red Valentines decor with these Neutral LOVE Stacked Hearts. With it’s brown hearts and leopard print, this adorable DIY Valentines decor is cute enough to leave up all year round!

If you know me then you know that I am a colorful girl through and through.

BUT I absolutely do love a good neutral craft now and then. And quite honestly I am obsessed with this brown hearts scrapbook paper that I designed, and I’ve been going on a total craft kick with it!

It’s not just Valentines Day that I got on a neutral kick for, I was on one last fall too and I made this adorable pumpkin and completely neutral tiered tray!

Of course my version of neutral isn’t your average version. Why is that you ask? One word……(actually it’s two…)

LEOPARD PRINT!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Stacked Hearts LOVE Shelf Sitter

• 1 – 12″ Paint Stick
• Small wood pallet
• 2 Jenga Blocks
• Antique Wax
• Excelsior
• Skeleton Keys
• Sola Wood Flowers
• 4 – 3″ Wood Hearts
• Galvanized Metal letters L-O-V-E
• Gold Leaf Rub n’ Buff
• Neutral heart scrapbook paper
• Leopard Print scrapbook paper
• Textured scrapbook paper in brown and creme
• Twine
• Mod Podge
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Stacked Hearts Neutral Shelf Sitter

I made these Stacked Hearts on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

First, I took four wood hearts and traced them onto 4 different coordinating pieces of scrapbook paper and then cut them out.

Next, I decoupaged the scrapbook paper hearts onto each of the wood hearts. To decoupage, you add a nice layer of Mod Podge onto the wood heart, and then put the paper on top.

Don’t worry if it’s not exactly lined up because we will sand it in the next step.

Using my Gator Sander (you NEED one of these if you don’t already have one!), I sanded off all the excess paper.

For the base, I stained a wood pallet with Antique Wax by painting it on and wiping the excess off with a baby wipe.

Then I stained one regular 12″ paint stick.

And 2 Dollar Tree Jenga Blocks.

I had these galvanized metal letters, but I wanted them gold so I used my finger to rub on Gold Leaf Rub n’ Buff.

The hearts were a tad thick, and the edges were plain wood, so I decided to Rub n’ Buff the edges of the 4 hearts as well.

To put it together I used hot glue to glue the paint stick down into the slats of the pallet. I used two Jenga blocks to reinforce it, one in front and one in back like you see below.

Then I glued the hearts onto the paint stick in a wonky fashion, overlapping them slightly.

Then glued the L-O-V-E to each of the 4 hearts (I decided to keep the letters straight since the hearts were already wonky).

The base needed a lil’ somethin’ somethin’, so I glued some excelsior on the pallet around the paint stick.

I finished the base off by gluing two cute sola wood flowers, one in front and one behind.

The very last thing I did was tie a skeleton key onto a piece of twine to make a shoestring bow.

I made four of these, one for each heart, and glued them to the top “humps” of the hearts, alternating left/right.

The completed Stacked Neutral Hearts is truly stunnnnninnggggg!! I am ObSESSed with a capital ‘O’!

If you aren’t into the neutral Valentines Day, don’t you worry I have plenty of traditional pink, red, and conversation heart crafts too!

Are you going to make a Neutral Stacked Hearts Shelf Sitter? 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’ve got a million projects on your crafting ‘to-do’ list like I do, than you need my FREE Craft Project Planner so you can plan to make *all the things*! When you sign up for the craft planner, I’ll also send you lot’s of fun, easy, and budget friendly ideas for you to fill it up with!

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This Dollar Tree Mailbox was cute before, but just wait until AFTER my DIY makeover for Christmas with a vintage Santa vibe!

Every year, for the past 3 years, I have done a Countdown to Craftmas where I go live on Facebook from 12/1-24 for 24 days of Christmas Crafty Inspo.

And this Dollar Tree Christmas Mailbox was Day 4 of our 2024 countdown!

I had this darn mailbox in my stash for YEARS, and would look at it every year and not know what to do with it.

Then, someone in my subscription group, The CRafterparty, posted their mailbox and it inspired me to make my own version! I just happened to have the perfect candlestick that I found thrifting, and it really makes this project what it is.

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Supplies Needed to Makeover Dollar Tree Christmas Mailbox

• Dollar Tree Mailbox
• Paint: White, Gold
• Kilz Dark Wax
• Napkin from my Big Pack of Craftkins
• Coordinating Fabric and ribbon
• Twine
• Vintage Santa Christmas Card
• Gold Poinsettias
• Christmas greenery
• Mod Podge
• Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff
• Candlestick (Wood or Glass) I thrifted mine
• Hot glue gun

How to Makeover a Dollar Tree Christmas Mailbox

I did this Dollar Tree Christmas Mailbox Makeover on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below. (I edited the live down into a 1 min reel for those that don’t have time to watch the full thing)

Watch the video HERE

To learn to make this mailbox, the best way is to watch the live replay, because I don’t have actual step by step photos since I made it live. I took a few screenshots from my live, and I will do my best to walk you through each step! If you don’t have time to watch the entire live, I edited it down into a 1 minute video for you to get the gist!

It’s actually pretty simple, I just decoupaged a napkin to the mailbox, made a messy bow for the top, added a card and greenery inside, and glued it to the candlestick base.

First things first, paint the mailbox all white so that the napkin shows up nice and vibrant. I left the inside red and the red and white striped portion of the front I left as well.

Next, I separated the plys of the napkin and got it down to one plyI and then used Mod Podge to decoupage the napkin to the mailbox. I worked in smaller sections to make this part easier. Don’t worry about wrinkles! Embrace the imperfections!

I sanded off any excess napkin using my gator sander.

Next, I painted the rim of the front of the mailbox with gold, and the flag as well.

I like things old and grungy, so I took my Kilz Dark Wax and antiqued all around the mailbox edges and corners. The best way to do this is with a finger dauber, and dab it on all over until you are happy with it.

You can see the grunged parts below.

I then glued the flag back on (I took it off to paint it gold).

Of course we need a fabulous bow! I made a bow with both fabric and ribbon with my Bowdabra. You don’t HAVE to use a Bowdabra but boy oh boy do I love mine! I made my bow big and messy and glued it to the top of the Christmas Mailbox with a gold poinsettia in the center.

This was the easy part. I glued a Vintage Santa Christmas card inside, along with some gold glittery greenery and another gold poinsettia.

Last, I used hot glue and E6000 and glued the entire mailbox to the top of this wood candlestick that I found at my local thrift store.

I decided to leave the color because the dark wood looked great with the vintage vibe, but I did add a bit of Antique Gold Rub n Buff to bring out the details.

Oh EM GEEEEE I am so incredibly in love with how this mailbox makeover turned out!

It looks just fabulous with my Thrifted Etched Christmas Mirror I made last year!

And that my friends was Day 4 of the 2024 Countdown to Craftmas!

Are you going to makeover a Dollar Tree Christmas Mailbox? 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.

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I bet ya never thought of a pot holder as a craft supply, huh? Well think again!

I’ve made a super cute Potholder hanger for Spring last year, and now we’re doing it again for good ‘ole Halloween.

So next time you see cute pot holders at Dollar Tree, scoop them up and turn them into some holiday Doorknob Hangers for decoration!

How cute does it look with my BOO Sign?!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Dollar Tree Halloween Doorknob Hanger

• Dollar Tree Halloween Pot Holder
• Polyfil
• Orange and Black Tulle Trim (from Joanns Fabrics, I can’t find a link online)
• Mini Wood Bats
• Black Paint
• Twine
• Black, White, Buffalo check wood beads (18mm)
• Buffalo check 1/2″ ribbon
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Dollar Tree Skull Witch Decor

I made this Dollar Tree Halloween Doorknob Hanger on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the Video HERE

The pack of Dollar Tree Pot Holders come in a pack of two, so I crafted with one of them and then gifted the other away.

First things first, make a 2-3 inch slit with an X-acto knife on the top back of the pot holder, and separate the back of the pot holder from the front. Then stuff it with as much polyfil as you can and then close up the slit with some hot glue.

Now, your pot holder is stuffed and we’re ready to decorate!

Next, hot glue the orange tulle trim all around the outer edge of the pot holder.

For the hanger I made a wood bead hanger with twine and black, white, and buffalo check wood beads.

Secure it to the back of the pot holder with hot glue, and then glue a couple strips of ribbon over the ends to reinforce it and make it look “pretty”.

Last, add a couple of mini black wood bats to the front, on top of the images of the bats for some 3D elements. I added two.

Here she is all said and done. This took me about 30 min to make and it came out oh so cute, don’t ya think?!

It fits perfectly on my doorknob for a cute little Halloween vibe.

Are you going to make a Dollar Tree Halloween Pot Holder Hanger? 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.

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This DIY Halloween Feather Wreath combines all of my favorite crafting supplies. We’ve got Dollar Tree Wreath form, Vintage Witches rice paper, black lace, and the most fun of all…feathers! A statement piece for sure!

This is not your average DIY Halloween Wreath. But then again, I’m not your average crafter.

I received a bunch of AMAZING Halloween trims in the mail from Simplicity Creative Group as a gift to craft with and I got to work creating with them right away! The trims, including this Feather Trim, can be found online or in stores at JoAnns Fabrics.

I also used one of my other favorite crafting things…Digital Deco Designs!

If you are not familiar with Digital Deco Designs you are MISSING out with a capital M! She makes gorgeous rice paper printables that you can either download and print at home, or you can have them printed and shipped to you.

For this project I chose “Real Vintage Witches“, and I have a printer, so I downloaded and printed it onto rice paper at home.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Vintage Witches Halloween Feather Wreath

• Dollar Tree Foam Wreath form
• Dollar Tree Wood Plaque
• Digital Deco Designs “Real Vintage Witches”
• Black Lace Table Runner
• Feather Trim
• Faux Spider
• Mini Broomstick
• Black Foam Rose
• Paint: Black, White
• Mod Podge
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Vintage Witches Halloween Feather Wreath

I made this Halloween Feather Wreath on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

I had an idea for the feathers and this Dollar Tree Styrofoam wreath like you see below, and I was onto something! Now to put the rest together I’ll show you what I did.

First, I got the wreath attachment ready by tracing the Wood Plaque to the front of the Vintage Witches rice paper and cutting it out.

Before Mod Podging the rice paper to the wood, I decided to paint the edges of the plaque all black.

Then I Mod Podged the rice paper print to the plaque, and smoothed out any wrinkles with my brayer.

I sanded off all of the excess rice paper with my handy little gator sander.

Next, I painted the entire green styrofoam wreath form all black.

I found this lace table runner at my Dollar Tree, and I thought it would make the perfect background for the wreath, but the question was, how do I attach it. Hot glue to the rescue!

I first cut out a large square, and then glued it to the back of the wood plaque with the witches print.

Then I flipped it over, and glued the black wreath form on top, with the print in the center.

I secured the lace with hot glue all around.

And then trimmed off the excess lace that hung over the edge.

Now for the fun part….the feathers! I just hot glued the trim all around the styrofoam wreath like you see below. This part was actually super easy.

Now to embellish it, I added some spiders…..

A little mini broom stick anda foam black rose.

For a hanger I simply glued a black string in a loop to the back of the wreath.

And here she is! This Halloween Vintage Witches Feather Wreath is an absolute STATEMENT piece if I’ve ever seen one!

I know it’s a little “out there” and may not be for everyone, but I sure do love it. I am doing my kitchen dining area all rainbow with black and white Halloween this year, so I think I may put this in my kitchen!

Are you going to make a Vintage Witches Halloween Feather Wreath? 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.

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Ya gotta love a good ole’ Dollar Tree DIY, and this is one for the books!

It’s creepy, it’s cute, it’s neutral, and it’s gold. OH, and there’s Leopard print too!

What’s not to love?

I became obsessed with the neutral, gold, and leopard print theme last year, and I think I will stick with it this year as well.

This Dollar Tree Skull Witch looked just perfect on my Fall-O-Ween bookcase, with all my other gold and leopard print fall decor.

This Fall-O-Ween Skull with Witch Hat uses ALMOST all Dollar Tree supplies, except for the Tulle and fabric, which is from Walmart. Budget crafting for the win.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Dollar Tree Skull Witch Decor

• Dollar Tree Plastic Skull
• Dollar Tree Tinsel Witch Hat
• Glass Candlestick
• Gold Tulle
• Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff
• Coordinating Fabric
• Paint: White, Gold
• Gold Glitter
• Rusty Bell
• Feather
• Mod Podge
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Dollar Tree Skull Witch Decor

I made this Dollar Tree Witch Hat Skull on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the Video HERE

I started off by taking all the tacky tinsel off of this Dollar Tree witch hat. It’s super easy to get off, just unravel it and throw it right into the trash because who wants to use that stuff!

Then I gave my Dollar Tree plastic skull a good two coats of white chalk paint.

Next I took a a paint brush and Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff, and lined the cracks in the skull with gold paint.

I also very gently rubbed some Rub n’ Buff over some of the bumps and grooves on the skull.

And of course I had to give him a gold tooth!

For his eyes, I covered the sockets with Mod Podge and then sprinkled copper gold glitter all inside, and then dumped off the excess glitter.

I painted the glass candlestick with a coat of white chalk paint first, and then a couple coats of metallic gold.

My fave part is the gold tulle “neck collar” around the top of the candlestick. I just took a 4″ wide strip of the tulle and kind of bunched it up, and glued it around the rim of the candlestick.

Then, hot glue the skull to the top of the candlestick.

For the witches hat, I cut several strips of coordinating fabric about 3″ wide and 10 inches long. Then wrapped it around the hat in a diagonal fashion and hot glued it in place.

I wrapped a leopard print strip around the base of the hat, and then stuck a feather inside.

I finished the hat off by gluing a rusty bell to the top.

And there ya have it! A creepy cute Dollar Tree Skull Witch in all his glory. Or all HER glory? I don’t know, I’m thinking its more of a HE witch, but would that be a warlock? And I digress….LOL!

I absolutely love love LOVE how this turned out. It will look so fabulous with all of the other neutral, gold, and leopard print crafts we’ve been making for my Fall-O-Ween bookcase.

Are you going to make a Dollar Tree Skull Witch Decor? 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’ve got a million projects on your crafting ‘to-do’ list like I do, than you need my FREE Craft Project Planner so you can plan to make *all the things*! When you sign up for the craft planner, I’ll also send you lot’s of fun, easy, and budget friendly ideas for you to fill it up with!

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I’m bringing back the Clothespin Wreath for Halloween, but this time in a different way! And pink! Make a cute, fun and easy DIY with cardboard, a napkin, and a Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost cutout. This is a clothespin wreath like you’ve never seen before!

See that gorgeous floral skull napkin on the clothespins? That was one of the napkins from my Big Pack of Craftkins napkin subscription!

With Craftkins you get 18 seasonal and holiday decoupage napkins sent to you once every 3 months, so that you never have to buy entire packs of napkins for crafting ever again! Get on the waitlist for when it opens next HERE.

Clothespins wreaths were sooooo popular for sooooo long, but they kind of faded out a few years back. Well, I am reviving it this year, but in a different way…..

With cardboard! So no need to even buy a wire wreath form to make this one.

You could make this with ANY napkin and any embellishments you want. It of course doesn’t have to be pink Halloween like mine, you could even make a Fall or Christmas clothespin wreath too.

But if you DO love the pink Halloween theme like me, be sure to check out the Dollar Tree BOO Ghost I made to go along with this one!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Spooky Halloween Clothespin Wreath

• 24 Clothespins
• Cardboard
• Dollar Tree ‘Spooky” ghost cutout
• Floral Skull Napkin
• Buffalo check ribbon
• Black bakers twine
• Tim Holtz Distressed Ink
• Paint: Black, White, Pink, Purple
• Mod Podge
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Spooky Halloween Clothespin Napkin Wreath

I made this Halloween Clothespin Wreath on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

First thing I did was trace two bowls onto a piece of cardboard. One just a bit bigger than the other, to make a donut shape. The donut is about 2 inches thick.

Next, I cut the donut shape out with a good box cutter.

Then, I painted the entire cardboard donut all black.

Now for the clothespins. I took my napkin and separated the plys to get it down to one ply.

I then used Mod Podge to decoupage the napkin to the top of the clothespins. I did a total of 18 decoupaged clothespins. The fastest way was to stick them all down to the napkin next to each other in a row, and then use scissors and cut them apart, rather them do them one at a time.

I used my gator sander to sand all the excess napkin from the clothespins.

I wanted to add a bit more color in and pull the purple from the napkins, so I painted 3 clothespins purple.

I also used 3 white clothespins, but I had them spray painted and left over from a previous project, so I didn’t have to paint them for this project.

For the Dollar Tree Spooky Ghost cutout, I painted the ghost white and the “Spooky” pink (color is Apple Barrel “Fruit Punch” mixed with “Pure pink”).

The white on the clothespins and the ghost was TOO white, so I distressed it a bit with my Tim Holtz Distressed Ink by rubbing it lightly on the edges.

Now for the hanger, I looped a piece of buffalo check ribbon around the top of the donut, and then glued the edges together.

I realized I wouldn’t be able to actually hang it this way, so I then added a small black bakers twine loop to the top, and that worked out great!

To make it all pretty I made a simple buffalo check bow and glued that to the top of the hanger.

Let’s put it all together! I started clipping the clothespins around the donut in the following pattern: 3 Decoupaged napkin, 1 white, 3 decoupaged napkin, 1 purple, and then repeat.

I put on the finishing touch by gluing the Spooky Ghost to the front and center of the clothespin wreath.

Here’s what it looks like from the back.

Here she is in all her glory! AHHH Oh em gee I am so in LOVE with this one! It looks so fab with my Dollar Tree BOO Ghost I made too.

This floral skull napkin from my Big Pack of Craftkins is just perfect for this clothespin wreath project!

And the Dollar Tree supplies for the WIN!

Are you going to make a Spooky Halloween Clothespin Napkin Wreath? 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.

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Dollar Tree DIY fall decor on a budget! This FALL Leaf Porch Sign is easy, affordable, cute, and fun to make. Your home will have all the fall feels when you make this to decorate your home this season!

If there is one thing I love about a good ole’ Dollar Tree DIY, its that you can craft and decorate your home on a budget!

All you need is a few supplies to bring this one together, and would you know something? Those Letters are CARDBOARD!?

Making this project even MORE affordable then if you were to use wood letters.

I think the total cost for this one is about $3. $1 for the sign, $1 for the leaves, and less than $1 for the cardboard and paint. SCORE!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Dollar Tree FALL Leaf Porch Sign

• Long rectangular Dollar Tree wood surface (I used the back)
• Burlap Fall Leaves
• Letters F-A-L-L (You can use wood or cut them out of cardboard)
• Paint: White, Antique Wax
• Vaseline (If you want to do Chippy technique)
• Mod Podge
• Hot glue gun

How to Make a Dollar Tree FALL Leaf Porch Sign

I made this Dollar Tree FALL Leaf Porch Sign on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

First, I stained the back of the DT sign with Waverly Antique Wax, and then I “chipped” it using vaseline and white paint. All you do is put vaseline randomly on the surface, and then paint over the top with the paint. Once it is dry, use a paint scraper and the paint will “chip” off where the Vaseline was.

You can SEE how I do it in this video HERE.

Next, glue the large burlap leaves to the sign. I did brown, orange, tan, and then teal.

Then, use either wood letters, OR cut them out of cardboard (you can find a template on Google), and paint them all white. Distress them a bit with the Antique wax and then glue them to the leaves.

Thats it, thats all! Easy as can be, but packs a big punch. This would look just adorbs on a front porch!

There is also an adorable neutral, gold, and leopard print version of this craft that we made in my subscription group, The CRafterparty!

Are you going to make a Dollar Tree FALL Leaf Porch Sign? 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’ve got a million projects on your crafting ‘to-do’ list like I do, than you need my FREE Craft Project Planner so you can plan to make *all the things*! When you sign up for the craft planner, I’ll also send you lot’s of fun, easy, and budget friendly ideas for you to fill it up with!

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Until Next Time…

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