🎃 7 Little Primitive Halloween DIY Decor Ideas | Rustic Ghosts, Witch Hats & Pumpkins Tutorial 👻🧙‍♀️

Have you already put your autumn wreath on your door and are you eyeing all those wonderful Halloween items in your store? Well, I say don't take it off the shelf, make it yourself, crafting with me, Indiana Jones. And today, if you like anything farmhouse, rustic or primitive, well, have I got something to share with you. Today I'm participating with a Rustic Wednesday but on Saturday playlist that is hosted by my sweet friends Dawn of Shabby Meets Bling and Shelley of Repurpose My Way who is the Rustic Queen. So if you love rustic primitive and farmhouse decor stay tuned. The first step to any rustic magical Halloween or fall decor is of course having a black cat. Here I have my little black cat Kuru who is inspecting the proper color of pumpkin because after all she knows best. So here I'm staining some wood blocks with some orange paint and all I did was take some acrylic paint namely folk art and watered it down a little bit just to do the staining of these little wooden blocks that I had in my stash. Now if you rust if you like rustic Oh, decor. Of course, you should always add something that has wood. If you have any raffia or moss, I'm trying to think of other elements that are typically in rustic decor. Anything that's metal, that's rusty, of course, you have to include that. Now, to continue with my little blocks... I'm also using a staining gel just to darken the color of orange. It seemed too light for me and I just wanted to just add a little bit of age. So you can use staining gel. You can also add some brown paint also watered down and it just gives such a different look and it adds so much depth just doing this one little step. Now grab some of your wooden beads. I know you have them in your stash and they're just sitting around. So let's grab some of these because they're going to be perfect to anchor some little creatures that I'm going to create today. For some reason, I really focused on small little curiosities, I like to call them, for Halloween, simply because I don't want to fill up, first of all, my space as far as my storage space with big, you know designs or decor designs also i love having small little items of decor instead of just big you know ones for little corners of your house on your bookshelf little ways that you can decorate and you know we're trying to save space and also these are really cute if you want to take any of these into the office and just have a little something on your desk to remind you that fall is just around the corner So here I'm taking these little wooden blocks, and as you can see, I have painted Boo. Why? Because I'm creating these tiny little ghosts made of foam clay, as you can see there. Now what I did for the head was I did include another wooden bead, and it's with the hole facing down. The top of the hole, I did fill that with a little bit of clay so the clay wouldn't sink into there. But also because I'm now going to use a skewer to Anchor that little ghost to my wooden blocks. Now I'm gluing the little wooden beads to the top of each one of these little blocks. But not only that, but we're going to decorate it further by adding some moss. Now this is the season of moss, I have to say, and I love including moss. I know it's messy, but gosh, I just love the effect. Look at the difference. Those, you know, from just plain little beads to adding the moss adds so much, and especially if you're doing primitive and rustic decor. Now all you have to do is add your little ghosties and you can make them any way you like. Of course I used air dry clay but you can also use cheesecloth if you prefer that that look but I just like the air dry clay because it It lasts longer. Once it dries, it lasts so long. And look at how cute this looks together. You can have this on a shelf. These are perfect. All the ones that I'm doing today are going to be perfect for tiered trays. And I just think they're adorable, don't you? Now I had this mini little cutting board which I was using to try to learn how to use one of my engravers my wood engravers and it didn't work out too well so I decided well it's time to upgrade this and the first thing I'm doing is using that gel stain once again and darkening the color of the wood because obviously if this is for rustic or primitive decor it should have a richer color of wood or something darker and deeper especially for the fall. I found this wonderful design on the Graphics Fairy. If you ever need any kind of rustic or vintage decor printouts, go to the Graphics Fairy. They're free and you just print them out on regular paper and you can use them any way you wish. Now once I've measured out and it was wonderful that I had those grooves in that little cutting board, now I'm just adding some Mod Podge from the Plaid family of products and I'm actually going to let it dry and use my tiny little iron on this tiny little cutting board because I love the effect that it has no wrinkles whatsoever. Now, if you use a regular sized iron, you must make sure that it doesn't have steam and it's at a very, very low temperature. But there you have it. Look at that. It just looks fantastic. It almost looks like it's been painted onto the wood. I absolutely love this design. Now, of course, I have to add some embellishments. I have this wonderful raffia bow and some leaves, and that's all you really need for any kind of rustic decor. And again, I love the primitive look for fall and Halloween. I did it last year, and I am going to enjoy working with that aesthetic this year once again. I like to build upon my collection instead of moving right away to another. decor idea. But I will be sharing other styles that I like as well. So stay tuned. A local gift shop right around the corner from my house was closing and they were selling many of their items for 75% off. So I want to thank Betty for, you know, all the wonderful sales and items that she had that she offered to me for this wonderful price. And I found this little set. of i guess they're called cheese boxes and once again i'm using the staining gel i think i i really really like the staining gel because look at the difference with that color wood to this color wood and of course if you're going to do anything rustic or farmhouse or primitive i forgot the word primitive I think it's so much nicer if you use a darker color. Now, I could have covered this with another color of paint, but I just really, really love the natural wood. So that is why I'm keeping this natural. And for now, and you never know, maybe in the future I might paint it a different color, but I just thought for now, I really like the way it turned out with this beautiful gel stain. This is such a fast and easy way to create some rustic or primitive decor for your home or office or for your school room even. These are so cute. These are the old-fashioned looking clothes pins and I have some of this fabric and I thought how cute to make little witches. So I remember as a child using these clothes pins to create ornaments on my Christmas tree but never to create something for Halloween So here I'm gathering all of my my rustic um or farmhouse fabrics that I had around the house to create my little witches. Now here I'm going to create some hats and I'm going to coordinate all these different um styles of fabric and patterns and it's just having fun and this is really if your kids are just getting awful about you know school is starting and they're sad and bummed or they're bored because it's the last days of summer this is a fun thing to do with them and think of Halloween and say hey if you were you want to dress up some witches what do you mean dress up some yeah Yeah, make some clothespin witches. These are so fun. And again, use the scraps that you have around the house. And again, you can find these anywhere at Dollar Tree or Dollar General. You can usually find these type of clothespins. You can use the other clothespins as well. And there's so many ways that you can use these clothespins, especially for rustic decor. You can also make little pumpkin people by painting the the tops orange or ghosts you can make little ghosts so many things that you can make with these clothespins and they would just be perfect for any kind of primitive Halloween or fall decor. So here I'm just making little hats. I just inserted a little piece of toilet paper roll just to make sure that they're nice and pointy and I'm going to That's it. I'm just adding them, putting them together, making their cute little faces. And I can just add them into baskets or put them into those wooden bowls that everybody likes so much. I got to get myself one of those dough bowls, I think they're called. And just have fun with it. Use your little scraps. You can use paper as well and or, you know, cheesecloth. You can put this together and make little ghosts with cheesecloth. And what's fun is that because they're wooden, you can you can actually, you know, clip them on. to things. You can clip them onto a banner. You can create a banner with these and they would just look adorable. Look how cute they are. They're just adorable. So I hope you try this out and again have fun with it with your family, with your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, anything you like or even co-workers. Why not get together and have a little crafting lunch. This is a perfect project because you'll be done in like five, ten minutes. The hardest thing. It's just getting the, you know, fabrics all coordinated. You have to have coordinated little witches. But again, this is great for tiered trays as well. I hope you try this out with your friends and family. Magical black cat paws are going to change, presto chango, Christmas decor into Halloween and fall, I suppose. So here I have this wonderful little tag. I've had it hanging around the house and specifically hanging around my craft room because I've always wanted to do something with it. I found once again on the graphics fairy, look at this cute little kitty cat. I'm not going to use that kitty cat. I'm going to use that for something else. But look at this little pumpkin girl. I fell in love with that cute little face. And I said, I have to have her somewhere in my primitive decor. What's more, I'm challenged to create something similar to her. Oh, there's a cat tail. Thank you. And again, she's going to be, she wanted to paint. She wanted to paint with her black. tail and my black paint but look at this cute little face. I am going to use this as a model and create something similar to this and just have it because I just think she's adorable and she has a little poncho that's made of leaves. I want a poncho made of autumn leaves. Who wouldn't want a poncho made of autumn leaves? Now here I am burning the edges because I just wanted it to look more rustic and antique. And all I did was just paint the back of this tag with black on the edges. And now I'm just creating this wonderful tag, a little bit of glue. For this I just used stick glue. And that's it! It was so easy. Now I did use some of the staining gel afterwards over the whole design just to give it a little richer color and a little darker and I just think she's so adorable. Imagine you can make a whole bunch of these and add them to a wreath or create a banner that would go across your mantle. I hope you try this one too! I've noticed this year in most of the Halloween decor that ghosts are a big thing. So here I'm using some cheesecloth and all I did was cut out just a square of cheesecloth and now I cut out another square to go on top of the ghost that's going to be all shagged out. It's going to be strips and strips that I've cut and ripped into the cheesecloth. So the first layer is complete and then the second layer has all of these rips. Now I'm putting together some raffia, some trim that I had around the house and I'm just going to tie this around the little ghost's neck and I just think it looks so adorable, so rustic. I've seen this in so much of the rustic primitive decor that I watch on YouTube. There's not a lot of that here in Miami. Now I'm going to add these the little eyes to this beautiful little ghost but yeah there isn't a lot of primitive decor down in Miami so I use a lot of videos that do like shop walkthroughs. To keep me inspired like Bridget's primitives, I believe she has so many wonderful little tours. Now I'm adding some Scrabble tiles that I had in my stash that's going to spell out boo and I think it's perfect once again on this scrap fabric that I'm adding it to. And it just looks so adorable. Once again, something small, something cute, but spooky fun. For anywhere in your house and it could be on your desk at work or here at home or in the kitchen on a tier tray. Wouldn't this lovely little ghost just be perfect to fit anywhere in your home? He's waiting for you to make him for yourself. I was thrifting recently and I found these wonderful little pumpkins. I absolutely love them. But if you can't find pumpkins like these, there are plenty of pumpkins out in the wild that you can get from Dollar Tree or Dollar General. And worst case scenario, make your own. I had this mustard yellow kind of color and fabric, so I just cut it out and it was from a dress that I was going to give away to Goodwill and I decided to use it. So I filled the bottom with some stones that you would have like for floral decor. You can use marbles or just pebbles, whatever you want to use. And I use that just to weight it down so it's easier for me to place it anywhere I want. Now I'm gathering again the circle of fabric over the fluffy foam or the filler foam, I guess you call it filler. And that's it. I just tied it together with one of those clear rubber bands for your braids and you can make your own pumpkin. Now I have these little seedling pots also in my stash. If you have them or you can find them at the Dollar Tree, fantastic. But if not, you can also use toilet paper rolls for this. I'm using these little plastic shot glasses because, again, I had them in my stash. And I'm going to create little... Pumpkin critters, I guess. I don't know what else you want to call them. But these are all little curiosities that I'm sharing with you that I think would be perfect, once again, for any corner of your house or your tiered tray. Now I'm covering up these shot glasses as they're going to be the stands for my little pumpkins, as you saw there. Again, using fabric, using paper, whatever you have on hand. It's perfect. Now you're going to glue your little shot glasses into your little pots but first what I did do is once again I'm going to darken that color of the pots and you can make them look like terracotta whatever you prefer but I just like to darken them up with that wax and then I'm going to pour some more of my stones in there and glue my little shot glass right into that pot. The stones or the rocks, whatever you have available, you can put inside, adds weight to it. So it's not easy to knock over or especially with my cats, man, they love it when I decorate because they like to knock things over. So this is safe for them to knock over. And I mean, it will be harder for them to do it. Now let's make some little, look at the cutest little faces for these little pumpkin people. I love the creepy little cute faces of Primitive decor. I don't know. It's strange, but I like it. I don't know why I've really gotten into it. I still like vintage and retro, but something about primitive decor just, I don't know, it just warms my little heart. So here I'm adding my little pumpkin to the top of the shot glass for each of these little pumpkins. I drew different faces on them so they all have different characters And then once again I'm going to add some Some moss to the pot so that it looks nice with the little pumpkin, you know, hovering over it. Once again, moss is one of those necessary evils for the fall. And especially if you like Halloween and primitive decor, just as glitter is a necessary evil, I think, for Christmas. I don't know. I just have to have something glittery and sparkly during Christmas time. But now it's time for fall. So not only did I add some moss, but I'm going to add some other embellishments, including these cute little labels that again, Betty, thank you so much, gave to me these wonderful little, they're burlap little labels, little tags. And I thought it would be cute to name each one of these pumpkins with a specific type of pumpkin. What do you think? This cute little trio of pumpkins would be so happy in your home, but look at how cute you have a pumpkin pie, you have a sweet pumpkin, and they are just so fun, especially for a rustic or farmhouse decor. Now, here's some fun witch's hats that we're going to make, and all I'm using, once again, are some scrap black... Black, um... fabric that I had actually it's these old canvas bags that got like stained so I said you know what instead of throwing it away I'm just going to create little witch's hats again just so fun and you can you know mix and match them you can put the witch's hats on top of the pots or on top of the um blocks however you want to make them and maybe I should have made like one with a pot one with a block one with um what's the other one with the what I'm doing with this one I'm actually using little spools So here I'm just putting together my little witches hats and what I did inside is add a little bit of stuffing or cotton balls whatever you have around the house and putting together each one of the witches hats. It's really hard to see the top of the witches hats once I added to the the brim of the witches hats because it's so dark but anyway here I'm just I added some, or I used, I should say, some sandpaper to make sure that they were nice and rustic and fringy. I love that. I love that. Now, all I'm doing is using some old spools to decorate or to elevate these little witches hats a little more. So these are just ribbon spools that I had in my stash because I'm not crazy that I keep empty ribbon spools. Not a lot of them but a few of them. This one was missing the top and I was like oh I was all upset and I said oh I'll just make another top and I'm like why do I need to make a top? I have extra tops. From these spools all over the house. So I'm just covering the inside of the spool with some fabric. First I used a little bit of that cheesecloth. Now here is some ribbon. Here is that extra little top that I had for another spool. And this one I initially put just black. And I didn't like it because it's the same fabric as I'm using for the witch's hats. So I had this beautiful black and white gingham. Which I thought was perfect to add to this spool. Now to each spool I also coordinated some little ribbons or you know bow ties some of them are none of them are made from ribbon it's all just scrap materials that I have or that I ripped to make these these ties. I really really like like that. Now I'm just adding the witch's hats to each one of the spools and adding some more embellishments. Once again, this is so much fun to just sit and create all these embellishments. And I also thought if you have a booth somewhere and you're opening your booth starting this summer, I mean, you know, this month of August, this, all of three, all of these are so easy to make, so inexpensive, and you can sell them for like five bucks and people would just love. To see this and have this in their own home. Look at how cute this little trio of witch's hats. Now, let's put it all together and see how I created. Oh, I also added cinnamon to my black witch's hats. So let's see how the final reveal pulls all of this together. Thanks again to our host Dawn of Shabby Meets Bling and Shelly of Repurpose My Way. Please remember to visit their channels and all the channels that are participating in today's playlist. Thanks again for stopping by and if you enjoyed this or learned something, please remember to like, share, and subscribe. But most importantly, stay safe, be kind, God bless each and every one of you, and remember to live the adventure. And I'll see you again very soon with another fun adventure for fall and Halloween. Pumpkins on the porch, glowing gold. Raggedy ghosts sway, shiver in the... Leaves whisper secrets to the biting air A witch hat's tossed, forgotten, near the rocking chair. Witch hats by the fire, shadows, bows, black hats, cozy.