You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars to spruce up your home at the start of each season. Budget-friendly DIYs and inexpensive pieces can look just as good as the pricier decor, especially when you know how to arrange them.
If you’re ready to decorate your home for fall or Halloween, we’ve rounded up twelve of the best Dollar Tree decorating ideas from TikTokers.
Make a Beautiful Grouping of Dollar Tree Pumpkins
Small faux pumpkins can cost as much as $10 at other stores, but Dollar Tree offers a wide selection at only $1.25/piece. The Crafted Studio Co shares her Dollar Tree haul, which includes plastic and velvet-covered pumpkins in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Her tip for making small pumpkin groupings look good? Vary the sizes, shapes, textures, and colors.
Create an Elegant Floating Candle
Dollar Tree sells everything you need to create floating candles, and you can customize the look to your preferences. Aryam6582 fills two glass cups with fall harvest decor before adding water and a floating tea light candle.
If you’d rather go for a Halloween look, swap the mini fall decor for plastic skeletons or jack-o-lanterns.
Gift a Dollar Tree Boo Basket
Aside from only decorating, Dollar Tree’s fall merchandise makes for an easy-to-put-together boo-basket that won’t break the bank. Paige Constanino tailors her basket for an adult, but you can also make cheap baskets for your kids.
To make a nice-looking gift basket, choose a container, fill it with fall-colored paper grass, and load it up with the recipient’s favorite things.
Assemble the Cutest Hurricane Vase
Hurricane vases can be expensive, but if you follow the DIY Mommy’s tutorial, you can assemble one with $1.25 products. Start with your hurricane vase, and then add a set of battery-operated string lights. Layer in the lights with Halloween or fall-related accent pieces.
Place your hurricane vase on your nightstand or as part of your dining table’s centerpiece for an autumnal glow.
DIY a Fall Lantern with Dollar Tree Supplies
Forget expensive lanterns. This tutorial from Aryam6582 will walk you through making your own with only a few simple products and a hot glue gun. You can paint or keep the wood bare and customize the accents to fit your fall decor.
Transform a Styrofoam Pumpkin
It’s no secret — some of the items at the dollar store can look a little cheap. But, with creativity and minimal DIY skills, you can transform a cheap pumpkin into a high-end-looking decor piece.
If you want designer-looking pumpkins for your shelves or centerpiece, The Crafted Studio Co. shares how to wrap one to give it that fuzzy, full look.
Make a Faux Tree with a Dollar Tree Plunger
Need tall decor to fill in an awkward space? Create a tree out of a plunger, like TikToker HomeTalk. To make the tree, hot glue your faux floral stems to the top of the plunger. Wrap the plunger in white tape and draw on black lines to imitate the look of Birch. Finally, use the plunger to suction your tree in place and cover the base with a cloth.
Deck Out Your Porch with a DIY Fall Sign
Swapping out porch signs for the season can get expensive. If you like changing the look yearly, you’re better off DIYing your own.
Mwhal89_ creates an autumn sign with a wooden paintable pumpkin as the accent. She uses an old board as the base and then layers on the pumpkin, florals, and a stencil for a one-of-a-kind design.
Create Stacked Pumpkins
Stacked pumpkins are ideal when you need to fill in a vertical space. Eve by Designs arranges Dollar Tree pumpkins for this effect. However, instead of leaving them as is, acrylic paint gives them a custom look.
The nice thing about this idea is you can paint the pumpkins any color to coordinate with the rest of your room.
Assemble Garland from Dollar Tree Fall Florals
Skip the expensive Pottery Barn garland and grab Dollar Tree pool noodles, ribbon, and florals for a full-looking mantle garland.
Jenny Brown Chaplin cuts her pool noodles to size and positions them on her mantle. Then, she adds florals, faux pumpkins, and other fall decor with dowel rods and ribbon.
Transform Your Hand Soap Dispenser with a Glass Pumpkin Jar
The next time you’re at the dollar store, look for a glass pumpkin with a metal, mason jar type of lid. Liz Fenwick DIY shows how easy it is to transform one of these jars into a high-end-looking soap dispenser.
You only need to poke a hole in the metal lid big enough to fit the soap dispenser from your plastic bottle. (Cut down the end to size if necessary.) Then, dump your hand soap into the jar.
DIY a Skeleton Candle
Spooky candles are easy to make, thanks to this Dollar Tree hack from Alyshia Faith. She purchased a ceramic bowl, two mini skeletons, and three tall candles to complete this DIY. After melting the candles, she positioned the wicks in the ceramic bowl, dumped the candle wax in, and added the skeletons before letting the wax reharden.
