Give Dollar Tree Witch Hats A Major Upgrade With An Easy DIY

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One sighting of a witch's hat and you know that the Halloween season (or a "Harry Potter" marathon) is afoot. Decorations featuring witch's hats are common around spooky season, with Dollar Tree witch's hats being among those that get morphed into something that's both mysterious and pretty at the same time. One such All Hallows' Eve decoration features a crone's hat from the Dollar Tree, laden with cascades of flowers in fall colors. This Halloween DIY is perfect to put on a table as the centerpiece, surrounded by other spooky items, like Jack-o-lanterns and candles.

Dollar Tree carries several witch's hats, and each style has merit. The Halloween-themed witch hat round tray works if you'd like to fill the bowl portion of the hat with Halloween goodies, like assorted candies and mini pumpkins. The DT's metal Halloween witch hat décor comes with star-shaped cutouts. For those who love a glowing centerpiece featuring unique Halloween candle holders, this hat's the one to choose. It's also possible to find sorcerers' hats at Dollar Tree prices with other vendors, like the generic three-piece Halloween witch's hat set. These are soft hats, so if you'd like one that you can shape, these might just suit.

Your favorite bargain store is also where you want to look for silk flowers and leaves in fall colors. To create a beautiful, yet eclectic floral arrangement with no rules, choose two or three main colors you'd like to work with. Completing this project requires the use of scissors, some craft adhesive, and possibly some spray paint, depending on which of the Dollar Tree witch's hats you've chosen to use for this DIY.

Although the original decorative embellishments on the Dollar Tree witch's hats are meant to create cuteness, having too many of them gets in the way of your own artistic expression in this project. That's where craft supplies like Hycote satin black fast-drying spray paint come in handy. You'll coat whatever hat you're working with to make it all black, a hue that encourages the viewers' eye to focus on the more decorative elements of the floral design without competing with them.

If you're working with greenery or silk fall maple leaves in this arrangement, glue those on the hat first with some craft glue. Place them at regular intervals all the way up the side of the hat and down onto the brim. Large flowers, like those found on the floral garden assorted 6-stem rose bouquets, should go on next, followed by smaller flowers. Follow a similar logic that you used with the leaves when you place the flowers on the arrangement. You don't want big gaps between each piece.

Finally, if you've decided to work with the Halloween-themed witch hat round tray for this project, you can place items in the bowl area of the brim. Crafters Square seasonal collection tie-on pumpkins and other small, seasonally-appropriate items would look cute here. If they fit the motif you've created with the flowers, you can glue a few in spots on the cone of the hat (in among the flowers) as well.

If you'd like to use the soft, pliable hat for this project, you may want to dip it in Mod Podge gloss sealer and shape the hat so that it looks like crumpled witch's attire. You may have to temporarily stuff something inside it, like floral foam, to help it keep its shape while the glue dries. Once you've shaped it in the way you'd like, you'll add flowers and other decorations as usual.

Additionally, while flowers and leaves are appropriate decorative additions to this budget décor idea, you have other options. One thing that would make a fun decorative element is the use of MYJMN store's border stencils for painting moons and stars around the base of the hat. Tape the stencil onto the hat and spray paint golden-yellow moons and stars in various states of waxing and waning. Add any flowers you'd like to the hat after that. This would be a fun stenciling option if you've chosen to work with the metal Halloween witch hat décor. Once you place a white LED pillar candle from Dollar Tree under the hat, it becomes a cone of shining stars and moons. It's an arrangement that'll definitely light up your Halloween night.