DOLLAR TREE PUMPKIN CRAFTS YOU MUST TRY THIS FALL 2026 | HIGH END FALL DIYS | PUMPKIN CRAFTS

It's officially pumpkin season in the crafting world, and if you're decorating on a budget, you're in the right place. I've got several Dollar Tree pumpkin DIYs that are easy, affordable, and something you might even find at HomeGoods. So let's get crafting. Starting with DIY number one. So we're going to be taking this peel and stick wallpaper from Dollar Tree, an antique frame from Dollar Tree, a pumpkin wood cutout from Dollar Tree, and Dollar Tree Raffia. So these antique frames, I just spotted them recently at Dollar Tree, so I don't know if they're out for just the fall season or if this can be a regular everyday item that Dollar Tree keeps on hand in their frame section. Either way, I absolutely love it, and it was perfect for this craft that I had in mind. So you're just going to want to disassemble the frame like you would any other picture frame, and what's in the middle is a chalkboard piece, and so there's no glass or anything like that, and so that makes it super easy to move on to this next step. So you're going to start to take the backing off of this peel and stick wallpaper, and I love this pattern. I found this at Dollar Tree and I have not been able to find this again, but I found this recently at Dollar Tree, so hopefully they put more of these in stock because I think it's a beautiful backing for fall. So I flipped this because I didn't like the way it first came out, and I wanted the design to be long ways and not horizontally, so I decided to flip it and try it again. So I'm just using my blade here, my, uh, I can't remember the name. I'm blanking at the moment. Not a box cutter, but my exacto knife. Yes, my exacto knife. So I just used that to trace right along the edge, and that came out perfect, and it sticks great to this chalkboard backing, so I didn't need to do anything else, and then we're just going to put it back together just like how we took it apart. What's great is that this can hang from the wall if you want it to. So I love this, but it's, it's not exactly where I want it to be in terms of an antique look, so we're going to create some pumpkin pieces and some other things. So this little ornament from Dollar Tree, I'm just taking some plaster color, Waverly chalk paint, and I'm just covering the entire thing, and then for the stem, I'm using Waverly antique wax. I don't have any real brown paint on hand, so I felt like this was the next best thing. So next, we're going to take more of this antique wax and my chippy brush, which is my go-to favorite item for sure. I always have these linked down below if you'd like to try them out for yourself, but I like it for distressing and antiquing. So next, I thought, how fun would it be if I just antique this frame as well? So I decided to use, I started off using a little bit of the antique wax from Waverly, and then I just kept going, and then I felt like it wasn't coming out dark enough, so then I just kept going back and adding more, and I didn't even need to dab off the excess at one point. So I just kept working with this, and I want to say I worked with this for a good five minutes or so, just kept adding wax until it absolutely changed the color of the frame, because the frame right now just looks a little too yellowy. And look at the difference, you guys! Just adding some brownish wax and stain to this, and then it really looks olden. So next, we're moving on to the next step, and then while I was doing this, my cat Eddie, who is responsible for the delay of tonight's video, he was really interested in this antique Waverly wax for some reason, and I was worried he was gonna lick it, so I was like, no, no, please don't do that. So I had to pick him up and take him off of here. I don't want him to get hurt. So we're just gluing some raffia. I doubled it up a bunch, and I just used a piece to cinch the middle, and then just, I'm gonna hot glue everything together. So next, I, well, last step, I decided to use one of these Dollar Tree little square cubes to make this pop and kind of give it more of a 3D look. And here is the end result. I absolutely love this project, and I think it's going to be on my shelves all fall season long. DIY number two. So some of these came from my crafting stash, the tall and skinny ones. I had one of those already, and then I found another one in stores recently when they put out kind of old products that didn't sell the year before, and then the two thicker pumpkins are actually from this year's fall collection in the wood cut out fall section. So I just ripped off the raffia bow that came on these, and luckily it came off pretty easily, but I don't have a heat gun, and that's normally what I would recommend you use for this type of project, to remove that easily. Otherwise, it takes a little bit of elbow grease, but it all does come off. So once there was nothing left but a little bit of glue, then I just sanded it down a little bit more, made sure it was completely flat. And then we're going to take some masking tape, painter's tape, whatever you want to call it, and just place that behind the hole in the stem, because I don't have any, uh, spackle, and when I went to go buy some at Home Depot, it was like eight dollars, even for their smallest size, and it kind of felt ridiculous. So I'm like, all right, I'm just going to fill it in with hot glue. It's the next best thing. So I just kept filling it and kept filling it, and then I'm using that scraper tool to just kind of make sure it's even. And then this is waverly chalk paint in the color fawn. So it's supposed to come out brown, but it kind of ended up coming out gray. So I did eventually change the color of this on the stems to a different waverly color called moss, and I just felt like it fit more to have green stems than a grayish brown one. And next I'm taking waverly plaster color chalk paint, and I'm just going to paint a little bit in the middle. I'm not going to cover this entire piece, this part of this pumpkin, in this color. I just need a little bit of it. So once it was sufficiently covered where I needed it to be, I took these letter stickers from Hobby Lobby, and I looked for the letter L, and I found an uppercase one and just stuck it on top of the plaster chalk paint. So this is going to act like a stencil, I guess, if you will, and we are just using the waverly chalk paint color pumpkin, perfect for this craft, and we're just going to use that right on top. So once it's sufficiently covered, then before this dried, I took off the stencil that I painted over- well, the sticker that I painted over, and I just used this little metal tool. It kind of feels like you're pulling off a Cricut project, and then it leaves a white letter underneath. So I thought it was a really cool effect, and it like came out really nice and vibrant, so I couldn't have asked for a better result. And so I just did this to all four pumpkins and did- I just spelled out fall. The only ones that didn't turn out good were the letter A and letter F, and so a little bit of paint bled through just on those, so I don't know if it's because these stickers are so old or what, but I just went back and I fixed it with more chalk paint. So this is E6000 weatherproof and low odor glue, which I did not even know existed, but I love a low odor glue because I have pets, so it's perfect. And I had a hard time finding this, so I've linked it down for you below if you also want to check it out for yourself. So this is E6000 and hot glue. I felt like it needed both. If this is going to be outside, hot glue is not enough and it's going to melt and come apart, but now it won't. So I'm using a very heavy amount of hot glue, but mostly we're going to be relying on the E6000, so I did use a lot of them as well. So I'm just stacking all of them and I'm trying to make sure I don't cut off the letters with the stem of each pumpkin because that was definitely difficult because I want the to look aligned and not too wacky, but I don't want to cover up the letters. So once it's all stacked, I'm just going to use this piece of scrap wood from my husband's scrap wood stash and we're going to use that as the last piece to make sure this stays together. So I did E6000 all the way down and then I was going to use more hot glue for this as well, and then my hot glue gun ran out of glue and I gave up and I just decided to stick it down, but that ended up working great because within 24 hours it was perfectly adhered. So sorry for the third Rafi about what I grabbed, but I really felt like the top of this craft needed it. It's the perfect farmhouse touch. So I just doubled it up and I left pieces hanging on this one. I just felt like it looked pretty that way. And then just to make sure this would be totally good in the elements, we decided to use clear coat crystallium spray paint and we did it to the entire thing and I should have done this first before adding the raffia bow, but then I realized after the fact. So now the raffia bow is covered. Maybe it won't be moldy in the elements, but I love the way this pumpkin stack came out and I can't wait to put it on my porch for fall. DIY number three. So I was going to show you guys that I stained this, uh, this cutting board, but I realized I was not recording, but I had to redo this craft because I first used a stencil and the stencil did not come out great. And I did a poll with you guys. Should I stain this? Should I not? And so I ended up having to start from scratch. So everybody voted yes, do stain it. So I'm like, okay, stain it is. So I stained this entire cutting board and this is a bamboo cutting board from Dollar Tree. So now we are just setting up the stripes by using masking tape and it is a great spacing tool to make sure everything comes out straight. So you just line it up like this and then you just peel off the middle piece and then you just keep doing that for the whole thing. But you have to make sure you don't accidentally layer the masking tape on top of each other and also make sure that it is sufficiently stuck to the board because you do not want paint bleeding through, which can absolutely happen if it's not stuck down. And that's exactly what happened on the other side of this bamboo cutting board, which I think you might see it at some point. You'll see up, you'll see the messed up stencil, but I learned my lesson and I made sure it was all stuck. So you just do this for the entire cutting board. That's weird. Huh. And I thought it froze for a second and then you just lift up that middle piece and then I'm taking more of the pumpkin waverly chalk paint and I'm just going through and I'm going to cover each section with this paint that isn't covered up by the masking tape. And for parts of this, if it wasn't thick enough, I did have to go back and add an additional coat. So that definitely can happen, but it's not a problem. So once I did this for the space between all of the tape, then it's time to move on to the next step. So I peeled this up before the paint was completely dry because I don't want to pull any paint up with me. So you can see the paint is definitely still wet here. So perfect. Now we're going to let this dry for a bit and then once it's dry, I'm moving on to this step, which is these fall burlap leaves. They have these out every year at Dollar Tree. They're great for any sort of embellishment. So I'm just going to combine these. And I used, right before this, I was using my miter shears to cut the wire because I couldn't find my wire cutters. So I hot glued these two pieces together here and this is going to go at the top of our cutting board. So instead of using the stencil like I was planning to do, I just decided to turn this entire cutting board into a pumpkin itself. So next we are going to place some hot glue in the very middle of this top piece here and this is a tree branch I found outside and my husband saw off the bottom of it because it came from a much longer stick. It was covered in mud so I had to like clean it and everything and I just wanted to make sure that there were no bugs in it. So I did throw it in the oven for about, I don't know, 5-10 minutes at 350 degrees just to make sure to kill any bugs. And I don't think there were but I just had to be safe because that's gross. So I did add more hot glue to the sides of this. I just wanted to make sure it was going to stay. Here's the stencil fail. It looks really good here but upon closer inspection there's a lot of places I messed up. So maybe now it's reversible. So I did another raffia bow here and we are just going to glue this to the top and just like that this project is done. I feel like it is a very modern farmhouse look and I absolutely would buy something like this if I saw it. DIY number four. So this is a plastic pumpkin stack I got last year at Dollar Tree. They have very large versions of this and then I saw that they had a mini one and I thought it was great so I grabbed this and then never got to use it last year. So we are going to quickly put it together. So it is, I mean, it's very tiny. I don't know the exact measurements of it but I'd have to get back to you. But here's for perspective. That was my cat next to it. That was Bucky. And then I'm just showing my husband spray paint this because it's a lot easier for him to spray paint it and then I can hold the camera because when I tried to do this myself it was very wonky and I felt like the the video was all over the place. This is me holding the camera and spray painting at the same time. I didn't want to give anybody vertigo but this is why one of us spray paints. Yeah. So I ended up spray painting all three pieces but I kind of realized that later that I wanted to do that. So this is the middle piece here and I spray painted the top of this but it ends up like not, basically you don't need the paint on the top and it's actually because it's kind of sticky because it's like spray paint on plastic it's actually bad for putting the stack back together. So you definitely do not need to spray paint the top of this. So we are just painting stripes on this because each little pumpkin has a crease and so we're kind of following the line and just painting in the lines. So I did this all the way around and then for the top part I spray painted it as best I could. I did place some masking tape on top not to cover this uh not to cover the the stem in spray paint but for this next part I am taking a little tiny paintbrush. I get a lot of paint on the brush and I actually cut off the tip of this paintbrush just so that I thought it would create a better like dot effect but some of them definitely ended up turning out looking like lima beans when I was doing these polka dots so you really just gotta do your best and I did go back and fix a lot of them as well especially in areas where I didn't have enough paint but you need a lot of paint on your brush for these polka dots. This was the first time I painted polka dots on anything my hand so for this last part I realized we it needed a pop of color there was no orange so I'm like you know what I did small polka dots let's do some large polka dots and again for the same thing you need a lot of paint on your brush or you're gonna go back and just fill in a lot of areas that needs a second coat and I definitely had to do that so this was a great learning lesson. Spacing out the dots in this was also a little tricky for sure so once everything was painted polka dotted everything then I took some I took four pieces of ribbon and this harlequin ribbon is actually new from Dollar Tree so I felt like it was perfect for a Mackenzie Childs inspired pumpkin stack. So it's floral wire that's cinching it in the middle there and I needed to make a very very small bow because this pumpkin stack is so mini so I'm just hot gluing it to the top here sorry for the cut off camera angle and here is the final result so this was my first time making any sort of Mackenzie Childs inspired pumpkin stack so this was definitely a fun project thank you guys so much for watching this video if you want to check out more fall videos check them out here on the left and let's keep in touch on Instagram and all other social media see you guys next week thanks for watching bye