Merry Miniatures: Decorating My Wooden Dollhouse

News flash: Halloween is now only 10 days away. If you're planning on handing out candy to trick-or-treaters this year, as I am, decorating the front entrance to your home is highly recommended. I believe the same goes for dollhouses.  To make the paper ghost lantern, I watched the following YouTube video, ...  ... replacing the LED tealight candle with the porch light on the upstairs patio. Here's a close-up of the lantern by itself: For the front door, I used orange and black craft foam, the latter of which I cut into 2 jagged pieces to frame the top and bottom. For the wreath, I cut out a circular base of white foam, wrapped around it a strand of black yarn (South West Trading Company Bamboo in the color Black), and glued to the top a rubber eraser bat that one of my students gave to me years ago. From some DIY salt dough clay I made this snake which, unfortunately, broke in half after drying. Superglue to the rescue!   The ceramic pumpkins I p...

For tonight's macabre meal in the dollhouse dining room, I implemented a new, more fitting color scheme. (Can you spot it?)  I began by making a double-sided bat chandelier, ... ... the design for which came from the following YouTube video (see timestamp 5:46): I also made a new tablecloth ... ... and centerpiece, using construction paper and modeling clay, respectively. So, what's for dinner? I think I'll serve each guest a small basket o' batwings, followed by roast beast & gravy with a side of refried brains, and for dessert, a slice of poisonberry pie. But first, a bowl of eyeball soup, à la that served in  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Who's hungry?

What goes bump in the night? Why, more miniature Halloween decorations, of course! For the comforter, I simply wrapped around the bedframe and mattress a black ribbon with orange polka dots I had purchased from my local Big Lots store. I did the same for the pillow. I made the pumpkins out of orange and green construction paper, ... ... following most of the instructions in this YouTube video: The owl, bat, and skull erasers are also purchases from Big Lots, ...  ... while the skeletons come from Spirit Halloween. Using white, orange, and black craft foam, I made miniature cookies in the shapes of ghosts, pumpkins, and witch's hats, respectively. Finally, following the instructions in this second video (see timestamp 12:47), ... ... I crafted the hanging paper bats: And now for a comforting bedtime poem, "From the Haunted Wood" by Isaac McLellan:  It is said that the Spirits of buried men Oft come to this wicked world again; That the churchyard tu...