Dollar Tree Fall DIYs 2025 🍂 Easy Farmhouse Crafts for Cozy Autumn Decor | Fall 2025 DIYs

Hi everyone and welcome back to The Crafty Quinn. My name is Megan and I'm so excited to share with you some 2025 fall DIYs that I hope you will absolutely love. So without further ado, let's get crafting. So first up we have this station wagon that I got from Dollar Tree a while ago. I've been wanting to use it on a craft and I'm going to use it. I'm going to paint using this vintage teal color from Folk Art. It is a chalk paint so it is fast drying and that is my go-to. I absolutely love colors like that but I love the fast drying ones. So for pieces of this I wanted it to look like an old-fashioned 90s station wagon so I figured let's go with some antique wax and using a makeup wipe I'm just using that to smudge it in and evenly to spread, uh, distribute the wax. So once I did the wax on all of the pieces that I wanted to look wooden I went back and just kind of traced around and just finished up the vintage teal. So next I have these cute little cutouts from, I think I got them from Hobby Lobby, but they're little wood stickers and I figured let's just glue them on first and then I'll paint them afterwards so that way I have less to paint. So once I added all three I kind of layered them on top of each other and then kind of scooched the middle one up just to be higher like above the rest. So then I decided to use these wooden words from Hobby Lobby. It says happy fall and I tried all different ways to break these apart. I used miter shears first that didn't work and then I had to, um, go back in with a razor and just kind of cut them out that way and just kind of applied some force and just broke them apart and then I went back with my finger sander and just kind of fixed up the rest of the areas. So then I used some pumpkin waverly chalk paint and very appropriate for these wooden cutouts so I just kind of filled them in there. Had to use the teeniest tiny little brush with those little black lines in between and then Eddie decided to join me for this craft. I was so excited to have him back helping me with my crafts and just so excited to be crafting again and he likes to block the camera. So once I had them apart and then I did fix up the bottom because they were exposed wood so I had to repaint them. I just glued them down. I decided to kind of spread them out against the two wooden panels and then, see this is, I wish the words had come like this originally and that's why I had to break them apart because they were not exactly what I wanted but then I used Waverly's ink paint for the wheels and then this is a cute little pre-made raffia bow from Hobby Lobby that I thought would look great above the words and then I thought let's antique this a bit, distress it, so we use some more antique waverly wax here and this is a chippy brush so I just kind of draw an X there and then just kind of go back over the places. I like to go along the edges like that. So then once I had the distressing done then I thought, you know what, let's add some vines to these pumpkins. Make them look like you just came from a pumpkin patch and I think that's really the finishing touch there and we are good to go and I did put the little piece of twine back on there and that's how it looks. This is absolutely my favorite probably from this video. Okay, I lied. No, this one's my favorite. So this is Dollar Tree's brand new latte sign. These are awesome. I was so happy to see this. The basicness in me just loved this. So then I just kind of, so I used this um this Cricut tool to kind of like see if I could lift off the wood because I was like that's great but that's not exactly how I want this to look because I want to put some letters on this so I just kind of chipped away at this and then it didn't come out smooth so I did have to sand over this and I used like the strongest sanding grade that I had and just kind of kept sanding until it was like totally flat and it will go flat you just have to really sand it for a while. So that's what I did. So once I had it completely flattened I used um I think it's called true yeah true burgundy from Folk Art which is a matte paint and that is the overall color of the latte. So I did have to go back and do a second coat of paint on this one coat was not enough. So then I thought you know what instead of the lid let's just do some whipped cream on top instead and I decided to use whatever cardboard I had closest to me and cut out a huge extra topping piece. So the little curlicue at the top did not come out exactly like what I was hoping but close enough. So I just cut out um so there are two pieces of cardboard just like folded together and then I cut out some rounded shapes as well to go on the sides because it looked so awkward so I was like yeah these all need to be stacked on top of each other. So then I did just go ahead and um lay down my stencils I got these stencils from Amazon and I love them because they look like Ray Dunn. So um I'm gonna link them down for you guys below if you want to try them yourselves but I love them and just to hold them in place I use some painter's tape. I've learned my lesson from doing stencils in the past painter's tape from now on. So I'm using Waverly plaster and I'm just using a tiny little brush here and then I'm just holding down the stencil at the same time just to make sure it doesn't move. So I know some people like to use little sponge brushes for this you could totally do that too I've done that before in the past with these and these are not adhesive so I really felt like I had to just kind of just hold things in place besides the painter's tape and then as soon as I was done just lift it off right away so nothing so none of the paint goes with the stencil. So it didn't come out exactly perfect I did go back and fix that later on same thing with the top came out a little bit extra in a couple places the white so I just went back in with a teeny tiny little paintbrush with the uh true burgundy color to fix those spots. So then we need our whipped cream topping and so I had to just use this cardboard and it was not thick enough and I was worried about that so I glued them together and I just stuck them all in the back realized I forgot to film when I was gluing unfortunately but that is what it looks like on the back. Then I took some uh I forget what I'm like totally blanking on the word but I took some ribbon from Dollar Tree uh burlap some burlap looking ribbon from Dollar Tree and just kind of glued them on the back there. I love this makeup brush tool because I'm tired of burning my fingers. So then I found some cheap spackle from Home Depot and it was the fast drying kind and if you guys want to know the name of it below I can I can try and find out maybe find a link or something but this is a fast drying lightweight spackle and kind of similar to what Dollar Tree sells or used to sell and then also learned my lesson here I didn't want to get my project covered in spackle so put down some painter's tape there and then I could actually reach all of the edges that I wanted to and just keep spreading it with a little tiny popsicle stick. I tried two different sizes of popsicle sticks and um this was really great for getting the the tough spots. And then as soon as I was done just lifted it right up and then I used real cinnamon for this wanted it to smell nice but uh you get the drift. And then it's not complete with some without some actual pumpkins so similar to what I did for the truck I just made those same pumpkins again to put on top. So this is how it turned out and I think I love this one the most. What do you guys think? Okay DIY number three. So I found this cute little pumpkin shaped tray at one of my Dollar Trees. I've not found it at any others. I don't know maybe this came out a couple years ago and they just still had it in stock but I was like why not? So I found this at a large Dollar Tree and I'm just gonna coat all of the sides of this in antique wax spread it around with a makeup wipe and so I did all four out you know outside sides and then I did go and do the inside of all four sides as well but I did not do the back or the bottom of this mini tray and I tried to really go with the grade of the wood but this wood is not perfect so it comes out a little blotchy in some spots but sometimes you get some interesting wood knots in these pieces and yes I did the top as well and it's a little bit messy but that's okay because we're gonna coat this with burlap. This is burlap from Hobby Lobby. I got it I want to say a year ago and I've just been waiting to use it and it was perfect because it was oversized and then I could just cut it to the shape that I wanted. So yeah I just kept cutting kept cutting kept cutting and then just kind of really cut it to the best it was I did not cut it perfectly to size I was like it's gonna stick out a little bit but that's okay and then I used this faux leather leaf that Dollar Tree has had a few falls now and I'm like that's gonna be my background piece and then I liked the unfinished look of these welcome fall Dollar Tree letters I don't know I just I didn't want to stain them and I couldn't come up with the color I really liked so maybe the I thought maybe the unfinished look would look nice and I think it works. So then I had to throw together a quick little raffia bow and this is made from a Dollar Tree Hawaiian skirt so I got this when their summer summer stuff was still out and I hadn't made one of these bows in a while so I was trying to remember how I used to make them in the past but I just kind of doubled them up a and then wrapped it in the middle and that's the finishing piece. So we have a little welcome fall shadow box for your shelves or you can also use this in a tiered tray. It's that time if you're not subscribed don't forget to hit that subscribe button hit the bell button for all notifications so you never miss when I drop a new video and I'm looking forward to trying to drop these videos weekly if I can so I'm just really glad to be back. So last but not least this this is DIY number four and so this is a scrap paper book that I got from Hobby Lobby. It has all kinds of plaid pages in it so and apologies if you hear my puppy in the background we did just get a dog we unfortunately lost our dog a little over a month ago but we couldn't handle the quiet and we ended up getting another another dog and we got a puppy and she's she just turned four months old but her name is Moon and we're happy to have her. So okay so I did the scrap of paper and I cut it to shape and then this sign from Dollar Tree I just kept so I think you could probably use a heat gun on this um on this felt but I like to do things a difficult way of course so I just took this Cricut tool and just kept chipping away at it and I was surprised at how little glue Dollar Tree actually used for this which is really surprising they love to load up like the hot glue and it's so hard to get pieces undone from them but I just kept chipping away at it and pulling it up and it came undone actually a lot easier than I thought and we're going to use this sign for the craft as you can tell so um so then you have to figure out what to do with the spots that have all the glue and that's where my finger sander came in handy so I just sanded this down so it was flat because the paper is going to go right on top of this so I used a craft bond glue stick I think it's Elmer's and I will not be using this again because I laid this down overnight laid heavy books on top of this and I know it's supposed to be you know repositional and all that but it did not stay glued for some reason I don't know why but I let it sit overnight with heavy books on top still didn't work still didn't stay glued so I need to find a better glue stick if you guys have recommendations so I use more Dollar Tree words fall words that say hello autumn and I don't know what that banging noise is in the background but my husband is doing something um yeah so I'm using some antique wax for the hello autumn words and I swore I told him quiet on set oh my goodness I'm so sorry guys it's not stopping okay so then I just hot glued the hello autumn words down and then I just put a little bit of glue around the edges of this and I didn't I didn't use a whole lot of glue but just just really just around the edges now I'm wondering if maybe it's my puppy so then I got these uh wooden beads from Dollar Tree and I've seen a lot of crafters use these for for signs and I thought wouldn't it be cool if I just somehow combine the felt from this one sign to this together just as a I don't know a filler I thought it would look cool but this requires a lot of hot glue and I think maybe it would be best to probably use gorilla hot glue sticks just something stronger I wouldn't recommend putting this sign outdoors and let's unless you're going to use a much stronger adhesive and things like that because I don't think this would hold up with the scrapbook paper maybe some clear coat spray paint would work too um so I'm just using some some Spanish moss for this pumpkin as well I just felt like it needed a little something at the bottom so just kind of using a tiny bit of glue because I don't want to burn myself because I'm not wearing gloves but I just kind of like to bunch up a lot at once and just kind of throw it on there see what sticks so I don't burn my fingers and then if any any pieces fall off I just kind of pull them off or I cut them down to size and then I had to go back and fix the sides of the sign that did not stay glued down I did not like those beads for the color scheme that we have here so I did replace them with just regular farmhouse wooden beads and I have links to those as well in the description of this video so that is the final product thank you guys so much for watching I know it's been a long time thank you so much for your patience if you want to watch more videos check them out here on the left and let's keep in touch on Instagram thank you guys see you next week