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DIY Dollar Store Gnomes are super piece of cake to make, and with Dollar Tree'southward always-expanding Halloween section, you'll find most all the materials you lot'll need to brand these fun little witches.

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Information technology has been scientifically proven past an elite team of Finnish scientists working from a remote enquiry station in the uttermost reaches of Northern Lapland that human being beings (and the She-Folk in particular) are hard-wired to love gnomes. They discovered that the combination of scraggly beards, bulbous noses and pointy hats had the same effect on the human psyche every bit fiddling fluffy bunny rabbits.

So it should come as no surprise that humans (and the She-Folk in particular) have sought to decorate their homes and gardens with gnome statues and soft, hand-sewn gnomes. In recent years, there's been a noticeable trend of humans (and the She-Folk in particular) making their own gnomes.

This DIY gnome trend has evolved over the years. The She-Folk (being naturally more intelligent and resourceful than the He-Folk) have institute ever easier and cheaper ways to brand their favorite mythical creatures. The needle and thread have given way to the mucilage gun. And making their stout fiddling bodies has never been easier. You demand look no further than our post about DIY Christmas Gnomes to learn almost the hole-and-corner to piece of cake gnome bodies!

Merely every bit unproblematic as those Christmas Gnomes were, we've come with and even cheaper and easier mode to brand them for Halloween!

Yep, as you may take guessed from the mail service's name, these DIY Dollar Store Gnomes (specifically for Halloween, though they tin be made for whatever flavor) are made (nearly) entirely from Dollar Tree materials. The only thing you'll need to buy separately is the craft fur, and that'southward considering Dollar Tree does not (yet!) offering whatever sort of faux fur. But Handan and I have been reconnoitering many of the Dollar Tree stores in the North Georgia expanse, and we've noticed that the Craft Corner section grows bigger and better each month. I'm telling you, it is only a matter of time before they observe a source for some cheap craft fur, and then they'll give Michael's a serious run for their coin.

When I first sat downwards to make these gnomes, I listened to my babes blab and blubber nigh how easy they were going to be. As she babbled, she walked around behind me and placed something on my head. Continuing her ceaseless babbling, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone, whereupon she pointed the infernal thing at me and fired off a photograph. She then continued her verbal assault by asking "Does my babes know what the easiest gnome is? Hey? Hey? Does he? Hey? Hey?"

I squinted at the loon. What was she getting at? This was some sort of trick question. There was no 1 particular Dollar Shop gnome that was easier than the others. They were all easy enough to be handily made past a rum-soaked monkey!

Nevertheless, I ventured a guess. "Ummm, the one with this hat?" I said and picked upwardly one of the myriad witch hats we bought for the projection.

"Nooooooo…." she said, smile. "Who is the easiest gnome?" Then she pointed, and it all became clear.

Yeah, former Doofus McGillicuddy, your long-suffering author. I'one thousand the easiest gnome.

Expect, I'm all for kidding around, only I had work to do! These gnomes weren't going to build themselves!

If you love gnomes as much as we do, be sure to check out our other gnome posts:

DIY Scented Broom Gnomes

DIY Christmas Gnomes

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DIY Dollar Store Gnomes

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Dollar store athletic socks
Bags of beans (If you lot can't observe any at your Dollar Store, you can find them in whatever grocery store for nigh a cadet)
Pair of scissors
Prophylactic bands
Polyfill (optional) – for making taller gnomes (Yous can go Polyfill from Dollar Store pillows and apply the pillow cover for a hat)
Mongolian fur, alpaca fur or arts and crafts fur. Mongolian and alpaca fur look better, only they're more expensive, so you lot may make up one's mind according to your budget. In case yous want to know where we plant our Mongolian or alpaca fur, nosotros used this two-tone gray Mongolian fur, these taupe and latte color alpaca furs, and this beautiful white fur.
Razor blade or Ten-ACTO pocketknife
Dollar Store Halloween glitter balls for the gnome noses
Dollar Store Halloween accessories and decorations for the gnome hats – go nuts with this! Almost anything tin exist used to make these Dollar Store Gnomes!
Hot glue gun

DIY Dollar Store Gnomes Video Tutorial

DIY Dollar Store Gnomes Tutorial

Ah, the Great Beans of the North! Only…Northern what? America, Mexico? Canada? Tasmania?

Take that sack of Bully Northern Beans and shove 'em right into that Dollar Tree sock. I wonder why they're and so great. Maybe they brand you fart less than those pesky Southern Beans?

Good job! You've got yourself a sack-in-a-sock!

Find a suitable rubber band for securing your sack-in-a-sock. Better yet, find two. Fling the first one at your Then and then blame it on the dog.

Kinda looks like a blackness bean tamale…

Trim the excess sock from your sack.

Select some craft fur. We have an assortment left over from last year's DIY Christmas Gnomes, and we bought some new stuff just for these Halloween gnomes.

Lay the fur on the table and measure out past wrapping it around the gnome.

You lot desire this much fur – just and then it meets at the gnome's backside. The craft fur backing should most reach the bottom of the gnome torso. You desire the beard to be able to catamenia away from the gnome.

I cut a semi-circumvolve for the beard. Remember that you're making facial hair for a gnome, non body pilus for a sasquatch.

Gently and advisedly cutting through the backing with a razor. Be careful non to cut too deeply, or you lot'll chop off his fantastic beard pilus.

Pull the fur apart. Ahhh, so satisfying!

Run a line of hot glue along the top edge of the beard.

And wrap that sock gnome up like burrito.

Ta-da! You're virtually done!

Now, pick a hat. Yous could use i of the rigid conical ones they sell – nosotros fabricated many with those (see our video) – or you could cutting the chapeau off of one of the Halloween hair bands, equally shown by the human being with the dainty hands in the pictures below.

Once your witch hat is costless and clear (and y'all've checked that it fits on your gnome), put some gum on either the chapeau or the sock and stick that sucker in its place!

Detect a spot for your gnome nose, then clear the fur from that spot.

Put a dab of glue on the nose (we used glitter Halloween arts and crafts balls) and printing it in identify.

gluing a nose onto diy dollar store gnome

That'due south information technology! You've washed information technology! I told you it was piece of cake!

With all the different Dollar Store accessories and decorations, you don't even need to make hats anymore (though you certainly may). If you want to learn how to make a hat from fabric, please check out our DIY Christmas Gnomes post.

Hither are just some of the supplies we bought (yes, nosotros overbought, but whatsoever extras volition be exchanged).

These DIY Dollar Store Gnomes are just so ridiculously piece of cake. Each takes no more 5 minutes to brand, and you can customize them to your heart's content.

Here's the crop of gnomes nosotros made. My babes fifty-fifty got in on the action. She made the 1 with purple bat wings!

Oh, you'll meet that they all take those glitter craft ball noses except for one. I saw a witch at Dollar Tree with a perfect nose, and I couldn't resist. Here'south the witch afterward I removed her hot-glued olfactory organ.

You'll recognize her nose in the pics below!

I thought I recognized this prop that Handan put in the display…

Yep, a Greg Navage original work of art from 1980.

In case you lot are wondering about the potion canteen labels you've seen on our Halloween Apothecary Jars, you can discover them here and here. In the first Halloween Apotehcary Jars post nosotros are sharing 80+, and in the 2d post we are sharing 55+, and yeah – they are all Gratuitous for our subscribers!

While yous're at it, you might want to cheque out Handan'southward Magical Floating Potion Bottle mail too – you'll love watching the little ones oohing and aahing over it!