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DOLLAR TREE -- Halloween 2013

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Surprisingly no thread started for the year yet, guess people have posted some items under the Shopping or Find thread because I was sure I saw some DT mentions already. Anyway, I was on the DT website today and they have the solar flower pots if anyone is looking to adapt them for their haunted garden. These fly out of the store as fast as they come in. Any modification needs to be very light weight and uniformly weighted for both sides.

Beach and pool toys (pool noodles for prop arms) are making their appearance. Luau items, like rafia grass skirt material and fish nets, are coming to the stores as well. Pink flamingos (skelly mingos) are in too.
 
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MatrixMom, I've been collecting a few dozen of them the last few years to modify as part of a mutant biology lab.

My plan, not started yet, is to have lots of these little seedlings under a "grow" light that will trigger their movement (always looking for ways to add movement to otherwise static scenes). My plan is to put a lightweight plastic or foam skeleton skull in place of the daisy part (maybe even glue the front part of a skull onto the daisy for a face) and then create vine arms (maybe with skeleton hands) where on older dancing solar flowers there are leaves or in the case of this season's dancing flowers, the ladybugs. I was thinking maybe those skeleton garland skellies you see all over the place each season might work for this but haven't tried one out yet. If the modification is too heavy it would throw the movement off and the solar dancing mechanism might fail to work.

Saki.Girl, keep looking in the coming week/months in your local Dollar Tree store. My stores out here have carried them for the last few years. Your store manager should know whether their store ordered a box or two. From what I understand the manager has some input into what is sent to them. If you go to ask, might help if you had the item number with you at that time but they should have a catalog there as well. Good luck.
 
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I would love to see you flamigos when they are finished!! :D;)
 
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Dollar Tree ALERT!! I really didn't expect to find anything great but my DT has these small ( about a 2 inch cube ) rocks that are solar powered lights and boy do they light! You would never see them scattered about a yard haunt till they went on and I'm thinking 1 Monster eyes 2 Path lights or even just foam pumpkin lights or part of a costume,,,hey I grabbed a dozen like a crazy lady and I bet they were all gone at the end of the day.
Also, this is the first year that I saw flamingos at my DT and the first thing I thought of was small pink vultures; easily done too with a pink DT feather boa from the kiddy section. These would make good deco's if your theme was "kitschy" Halloween, they're even cheap enough for prizes or party favors. Thought I'd let you guys know what's up here in NH ( where there's still snow on the ground! ). My present project is a bunch of child-sized skulls for creepy 'things' to run around in the garden. Happy trails!
 
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Dollar Tree ALERT!! I really didn't expect to find anything great but my DT has these small ( about a 2 inch cube ) rocks that are solar powered lights and boy do they light! You would never see them scattered about a yard haunt till they went on and I'm thinking 1 Monster eyes 2 Path lights or even just foam pumpkin lights or part of a costume,,,hey I grabbed a dozen like a crazy lady and I bet they were all gone at the end of the day.
Will have to look for those rocks, dang! Was just at DT yesterday, grabbed a bunch of RWB decorations for the summer and didn't look around. WHAT was I Thinking! LOL
 
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Just got back from an early a.m. trip to DT (they open at 8 am so convenient when I drop DH off, I like that. Most stores aren't open til 9 or 10).

For a quick tropical theme when I need to go to Plan B or C when the weather is bad and I don't want my good stuff out, I picked up two adult rafia hula skirts, hair flowers, and party sunglasses (flamingos and pineapple design--very kitchy and fun). I'm thinking of a humorous skeleton beach setting of two adult skelly beach goers suntanning themselves (guess I could make them sunburnt or super tanned like that tanning bed mom in the news...burnt or aged corpses). They should go great with my skelemingos and our palms in the background. I have small 3-foot skeletons that will be the kids playing in the sand....or graveyard would be more appropriate--like that idea...and already have DT beachwear for them from last year. I bet I could use foam board and create a sand castle complete with a bone flagpole, spray glue the whole surface and toss on something for "sand" to complete the look. I'm liking this idea.

BTW Saki.girl, your DT skelemingos came out great! The skeleton head, neck and backbone design works really well without copying the full skeleton design you see most often.

I also picked up the solar rocks someone had mentioned. None in the store were charged to see lit so I grabbed 4 to charge and test out.

Also picked up a few of the fairly thick, black metal wire lantern holders for my graveyard (forgot what they are intended for but they were in the garden section). Someone mentioned they were in stock and they posted a photo of how they used them last year--they look great and helped raise the lanterns off the ground, so thanks!

A sea scallop bra will be used for my pirates' mermaid or carnival sideshow Fiji Mermaid prop. And the last item I bought today was a GIANT fly swatter. I have some large toy flies and a giant mosquito prop that I'm thinking would look great with that skelly beach scene and add to the fun.
 
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Stopped at lunch and managed to grab a couple of the flamingos and 1 solar rock. Looks like have tomorrow nights project. Saki I plan on painting my flamingos like yours. Thanks for the link.
 
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Should be soon then im the goddess. The flamingos as well as the netting BTW are in their new catalog (April - June).

My store had sold out of the dancing solar flowers/bugs but said another shipment was coming in today. I think they get a shipment in at least each week.


4/16 Dang, stopped in today and they did get their solar flowers in but they switched up the version from last week's special. These had the bug in place of the flower instead of the bugs replacing the leaves. If anyone sees the version with the bugs as leaves, please send a shout out. Don't want to miss them when they hit the stores again. Figure it will be much easier to pull the bugs off and substitute skelley arms and hands. Thanks.
 
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Ghost, I think you can order a case online or talk to the store manager. Same goes for any Dollar tree item, I believe.
 
#28 ·
Dollar Tree has their TIKI TORCHES featured this week--online and they were in my store as well. I made a Flaming Tiki Torch using some tiki torches I bought last year from DT and some Flaming Torch Lights I just received from Oriental Trading Company. Looks great and gives you a battery solution. I made a tutorial for it (the typing of instructions was the hardest part!) so check it out under the Tutorial Section. All for under $6.
 
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