My favorite Halloween crafts involve sprucing up my Halloween cemetery. I love searching for new details I can add to it. I wanted to add a statue to it this year and this doll stone angel was seemed like an easy and relatively inexpensive option.
Materials:
*Barbie or similar doll (I used one of the $1.00 ones from Dollar Tree)
*Long, flowy doll dress (another Dollar Tree purchase)
*Hot glue
*Cereal box
*Felt
*Gray paint
*Paintbrush
*Granite spray paint
Directions:
*Gather your doll and her dress.
*Dress doll in the dress. If her hair is in a ponytail, remove the elastic and smooth out. If you're using one of these Dollar Tree dolls, you may be surprised to find that they have bald rings on their heads. This actually won't end up mattering, as you'll see in a moment.
*Draw a line of hot glue from the doll's roots down to the ends of her hair. Repeat this until you've covered her hair in hot glue. This will give her hair a more statuesque look and will cover any bald patches.
*Draw and cut out angel wing shapes from your cereal box or similarly weighted cardboard.
*Cut feathers from felt and glue them to the cardboard, starting from the bottom of the wings and working your way up.
*Glue the wings to the doll.
*Paint the doll and wings using gray paint. You don't have to cover up the colors completely, but the less colorful your doll is, the less spray paint you'll have to use.
*Spray paint your doll using granite spray paint. You may need to use multiple coats to mask the colors. Once you've done enough coatings for your liking and your doll is dry, it'll be ready to add to your Halloween cemetery.
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