13 Days of Halloween – Spooky Tree & Ornaments
For years now, I’ve been wanting to try making a spooky tree for Halloween. After perusing the internet, I came up with my own tree and ornaments using the following materials:
- Tree branches
- Black spray paint
- A container of some kind to hold your sticks
- DHD Halloween kits
- Wooden discs & crafting (popscicle) sticks
- Bottle caps
- Acrylic disks
- Your choice of paint
- Wire, thread or ribbon
- Hammer, nail, & circle punch
First, I grabbed some dead branches from our backyard, removed any dead leaves and spray painted them black. We have a Bradford Pear tree in our backyard and I chose those branches and left on some of the shriveled berries to add to the spookiness of my dead branches. After the spray paint dried, I arranged the sticks in an apothecary type bottle I found at Hobby Lobby.
Next, I began making ornaments for my tree. Using the following kits, wood discs, and Spare Parts by Paper Studio, I created ornaments for my tree. Any of DHDs Halloween kits would work well for this, but these are the ones I chose:
To create the different ornaments for your tree, print off your favorite DHD Halloween papers, sayings and elements. For the bottle cap ornament, first, make a small hole in the bottle cap using a hammer and nail. then use a circle punch to punch out your Halloween paper, and glue that to the bottle cap.
After that, stick an acrylic on top of the paper, loop the ribbon or twine through the bottle cap, and hang it on your tree.
But, who wants a Halloween tree with only one kind of Halloween ornament? Another type of ornament you can make to spookify your tree is using a circle punch to punch out two different sizes of DHD paper and then adhering these to a wooden disc with modge podge.(Dont’t forget to make a hole in the ornament so you can attach your thread.)
Lastly, use painted craft sticks to create a frame for your square paper and elements.
And a Halloween tree couldn’t be complete without a Jack Skellington ornament.
Add one of Jen Allyson’s apothecary labels
And the tree is finished!
That is, until your husband comes home from the store with purple mini lights to add to it. Hope you enjoyed the tutorial!
