We are going to be creating a great little Halloween piece, this cute DIY witch swag. And I think you’re going to love it. What we are working with today is so fun. It is actually a paint stick. Rhonda Nickerson, from Rhonda’s Creative Corner, and I came up with the idea that we would take and use this as a base.
We picked this particular paint stick up at Home Depot. They have a whole selection of different sizes, but this is an actual paint stick for stirring the five gallon buckets of paint.
DIY Witch Swag with a Paint Stick!
We just base coated the paint stick black. You can use whatever color you want to.
This quick and easy Halloween swag design is so stinking cute! She’s flying high y’all. I can’t wait for you to make your own little Witch’s swag.
If you love the style of this design, you’ll definitely want to check out the mini witch swag I shared earlier this month.
Print
Ingredients
paint
paint stick
Orange and Black Fabric Spiral Curly Spray
2.5″ White Small and Large Dots on Black Ribbon on 10 Yard Roll
1.5″ Orange Happy Halloween with Spiders Ribbon on 10 Yard Roll
Foam blocks
Hot glue
Zip ties
Liquid Gorilla glue
Staple gun
Floral pins
Directions
- Prepping the swag base
- Paint your paint stick with a base coat. Let dry.
- Glue 2 foam blocks onto your paint stick, using liquid Gorilla glue.
- Fluff out your black garland.
- Measure out 2 pieces of garland the length of the paint stick.
- Place each of the garlands on each side of the paint stick, intertwining a few pine tines at the middle of the paint stick.
- Use your staple gun to secure the garlands in place.
- Fluff out your garlands a little more.
- Dip your floral pin in hot glue, and pin a few pine tines into foam, to camouflage the foam base.
- Adding your witch
- Add your witch legs to the bottom of the swag and use floral pins to secure to foam. Add glue for additional security.
- Add a foam pumpkin near the witches leg. Use a floral stem wire as a pick for your pumpkin.
- Secure one of the witch’s legs on top of the pumpkin using a floral pin and glue.
- Trim the spiral picks and dip into glue pot. Secure into top foam block. – This will be the witch’s hair.
- Add the hat near the spiral picks. Use a bamboo stick or wired floral stem to secure the hat to the swag.
- Make a bow
- Get your EZ Bow Maker out and make a 20″ tail using a 2.5″ in wired ribbon.
- Make two 6.5″ loops on each side.
- Add your 1.5″ wired ribbon, with a 20″ tail.
- This time you’ll make three 6″ loops on each side.
- Come back with the same 2.5″ ribbon, add a 15″ tail.
- Make one 5.5″ ribbon on each side.
- Using a cable tie (or zip tie) to secure the bow all together
- Add another cable tie through the bow cable tie to secure the bow to the paint stick, right in between the hat and legs.
- Add the broom stick
- Secure the broom stick to the foam.
