Halloween Houses

This year for the annual Halloween scavenger hunt/party, I gave away little holiday houses for prizes. I took dollar store Christmas Plaster houses and made them Halloween by giving them a couple of coats of paint, cobwebs, moss, and Halloween baubles.

 These are the houses I found. Looking in the local craft store, houses like these were selling for $7-8. So, huzzah for the dollar store.

These houses took a little bit of work because of all of the nooks and crannies unique to each house. Some had a brick-like facade, others were made to look like stone. The roofs were also a little tricky, because of the tiles and overhangs.

I chose several vibrant colors, as well as the requisite grey and black to paint over the houses. Since I wanted to make them Halloween houses, I chose orange, purple, blue, red, black, and grey.

The white patches on the roofs was supposed to resemble snow. To hide the snow I glued either cobwebs or a variety of mosses to the spots, helping to give the houses a fall and aged appearance.

 The Christmas trees and wreaths on the doors were painted over and I glued Halloween trinkets over them.

 I think that they turned out pretty good, and the people that won the prizes liked them as well.

I have seen others painted all one color, like grey, and those are okay too, but I wanted the prize houses to have a bit of fun and flair.