Want to decorate your home for Halloween without spending a fortune? Me too, so I’m going to learn how to make spooky potion bottles from jars! Won’t you join me?
Do you decorate for Halloween?
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I don’t go all out for this holiday, but I think it’s fun to decorate one area of my house.
This year, it’s the entryway!
I wanted to do something different, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money!
I saw all kinds of interesting potion bottles and apothecary jars on Pinterest!
So, several months ago, I started saving glass jars of varying shapes and sizes.
Then, I headed to my favorite store for cheap and easy DIYing!
None other than Dollar Tree!
I found lots of little treasures to help me put together some spooky potion bottles!
Steps to make spooky potion bottles from jars
Gather
Gather the following items to make this DIY:
- Assorted jars from pickles, barbecue sauce, spices, salad dressing, etc.
- Goo Gone
- Razor blade
- Labels- I got mine from Lia Griffith Designs.
- Items to put inside your jars -these will depend on what your labels say.
- Assorted items to embellish lids-skulls, bones, snakes, spiders, and corks.
- Scissors
- Mod Podge
- Paintbrush
- Black spray paint
- Black chalk paint
Prep
Complete the following steps to prepare for this DIY:
- Remove labels from jars with Goo Gone and a razor.
- Wash the jars.
- Spray paint the lids black.
- Print labels (click the link to the labels I used above) and cut them out with scissors.
- Assign each label to a jar.
Attach labels
Paint the Mod Podge onto the back of the label.
Adhere the label to the glass jar.
Items to fill & decorate jars
Now for the fun part!
Filling the jars with interesting objects!!
Tarantula legs
Use wire cutters to remove the legs from the tarantula!
Crow feathers
If you can’t find black feathers, spray paint the colored ones black.
Werewolf fur
I could not find inexpensive faux fur, so I opted for hair instead!
Hopefully, next year, I can find something that looks like fur!
Toadstools
Wooden mushrooms work perfectly in the toadstool jar!
Bone Powder & Unicorn Dust
I used plain white sugar for the unicorn dust.
I mixed white sugar and coconut sugar to make bone powder!
Dangerous liquids
Fill the bottles with water and add food coloring.
Items to embellish bottle caps
Styrofoam skulls and bones, get a coat of black paint!
I also found plastic snakes and spiders!
Now, take a look at the finished bottles!
Embellish bottles
Put two crossed bones on the bone powder bottle!
Add gray and white string around the cap.
Grace the top of the toadstool clippings jar with a wooden toadstool.
Wrap twine around the lid!
Coil a snake on top of the snake venom bottle!
Add black and white string around the cap!
Attach a skull to the bottle full of arsenic!
Wrap a black ribbon around the bottle!
Glue a tarantula on top of a jar full of spider legs!
Wrap the lid with a piece of Creepy Cloth!
Cut the ends off of a styrofoam bone to make a unicorn horn and glue it to the lid of horn dust.
Glue a black and white ribbon around the lid!
Glue a skull and cross bones on the lid of the highly potent elixir!
display your Spooky potion bottles
I made a display with my potion bottles in our entryway!
I’m so excited about my new Halloween Apothecary!
Conclusion
If you want to add spooky fun to your home decor, save those jars now!!
Let me know what you think about my potion bottles in the comments below!
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Blessings, Donna and Rich
more Halloween and fall inspiration
- Halloween Wood Bead Garland with Ghost Tassels
- Rae Dunn-Inspired Halloween Candles
- Update Old Decor to Make a Fall Wreath
- Inexpensive Halloween Decor for the Kitchen
- How to Make a Pumpkin Topiary
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Donna! What a fun and festive way to celebrate Halloween. These decorations are awesome and so affordable. I love the Unicorn Horn dust. Oh and the toad stools. Thanks for another fun and inspiring project. Pinned.
Thanks so much Anna! It was really fun putting it together! Glad you enjoyed it!
What a fun way to create a Halloween vignette! Thank you for sharing on Whimsy Home Wednesday Link Party!
Hi Kristin! They were fun to make! Thanks for hosting Whimsy Home Wednesday!!
This is such a cute idea for Halloween! Thanks so much for sharing and linking up on Whimsy Home Wednesday too!
Thanks, Charity! It was a fun little DIY project!
Hi Donna – Just wanted to let you know how much I loved this post when I re-read it. Your boys must have really loved some of these ideas. I have some empty tabasco sauce jars that I think would be a good candidate for this project.
Hi Anna! Let me know if you make some! They are fun and festive to decorate for Halloween! Thanks!
So spooky and CUTE!
We will be featuring you starting Wednesday at the Creative Crafts Linky Party! Pinned and shared!
Creatively, Beth
Hi Beth! That’s such great news! Thanks so much for featuring our potion bottles and I’ll see ya at the party!
You did such a great job with these jars and I can’t wait to do my own take on them this Halloween season! I’m creating a front yard witch post with skeletons running it. Hopefully the kids will love it. Thank you so much for your help and creativity!
Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed the post! Have fun decorating for Halloween and let me know if you make the potion bottles!
Love these!
Werewolf fur = lint from the dryer!
Hi Jennifer! So glad you like our spooky potion bottles! Thanks for sharing your suggestion werewolf fur! Let me know if you make them and have a great weekend!