If you're planning to add a spooky twist to your haunted dollhouse this Halloween, there are plenty of ways to do it without purchasing expensive supplies. Many of the items needed to create a haunted dollhouse scene can be found around the house or repurposed from everyday materials.
Here are not just 11, not 20, but 27 extra creative ideas to help you turn your dollhouse into a Halloween masterpiece and keep you busy for a long time!
( for the people with a longer attention span: there is a little surprise gift at the bottom of this article )
Updated 25/08/26
1. Miniature Heart with Blood Letter
Sculpt a heart from fimoclay, add fake blood using red paint or food coloring, and place a writing plum in a vase beside it.
Beneath the scene, a letter appears to be written in blood, giving a gruesome but imaginative touch.
=> The fake blood dripping from the heart, is created by using this red paint:
And it looks like in this video:
2. Tombstones from Foam or Cardboard
Cut small tombstones from old foam packaging or thick cardboard. Paint them in shades of gray, adding cracks and moss for a weathered look.
3. Create Spider Webs using dryer sheets.
For a simple and affordable way to make spiderwebs for your Halloween dollhouse, consider using dryer sheets.
These sheets already have a “webby” appearance and can easily be stretched and teased out to create a thin, realistic-looking web.
Don’t worry if they rip during the process—this only adds to the authenticity. Once the webbing is formed, you can glue it down with clear PVA glue.
The glue helps adhere the webs to surfaces, and as a bonus, the glue itself can be pulled to form stringy, web-like strands.
This technique is a quick and inexpensive way to transform your dollhouse into a spider's lair.
4. Tiny Witch’s Cauldron from everyday materials
Here's an idea that I found on Pinterest on how to create a tiny witch's cauldron from a bead, a thumbtack, some small beads, a tiny metal ring, and some black paint!
5. Tiny Bats from Paper with the quilling method
To create tiny quilled Halloween bats, start by rolling three strips of black quilling paper tightly to form the bat’s head.
Push the center of the coil slightly to make it dome-shaped. For the ears, roll short strips of black paper into teardrop shapes and attach them.
For the wings, roll loose coils, pinch them into triangles, and slightly curve one side. Attach the triangular shapes together, wrap the edges with black paper, and glue the wings to the bat’s head.
Finally, add small white paper triangles for fangs to complete the look.
The process is very clear in the next video!
6. Tissue Ghosts
Create simple ghosts by draping tissue over a small ball of paper tissue. You can design faces on them. Use string to hang them around your dollhouse. That's it!
7. Creepy Doll Revamp
Take an old doll and paint it with pale skin tones and dark shadows under the eyes to create a haunted doll for your Halloween scene.
You can even learn how to turn your sweetest Barbie doll into a creepy Zombie!