DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs!

Fancy a spooky tray of Eyeballs? A collection of petrified eyeballs, is a must have decor item for any Halloween party, or haunted house, and you could have your very own collection too! Lol… I thought this would be a fun DIY Halloween Decoration to add to your entry way side table, or maybe on a haunted bar… But please don’t attempt to eat them… They are hard as a rock! Find out how you can easily make some eyeballs to decorate your home with too in the fun tutorial below! If you DARE!!

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - halloween

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - painted rocks

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - eyes painted on rocks

 

DIY TRAY OF SPOOKY EYEBALLS

 

MATERIALS NEEDED:

  • Rocks
  • White Spray Paint (High Gloss) –  Optional
  • Acrylic Paint (white, black, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown)
  • Fine Point Paint Brush
  • Clear Spray Paint (High Gloss)

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - rocks

 

To turn the rocks above into the eyeballs below just follow my super easy eyeball rock painting tutorial!

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - spooky painted rocks tutorial

 

METHOD:

 

Step 1: Collect some oval/round-ish rocks from the back yard.

 

Step 2: Wash and dry your rocks.

 

Step 3: Lay your rocks on some news paper in a well ventilated area and spray paint your rocks with a High Gloss White Spray Paint. This step is optional, but easier them hand painting each of your rocks white with a paint brush, which you can do if you don’t have any spray paint! wink!

 

Step 4: Let the white paint dry.

 

Step 5: Paint the pupil and outline of the iris (the coloured part of the eye) in black paint. Use a fine tipped paint brush to get best results. I only had a small child’s paint brush, which was not as exact as I pictured in my head, but I like how they turned out any way.

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - painting tutorial

 

Step 6: Paint the coloured part of the eye with a light shade of the colour you want the eye to end up. In this case a light blue/green eye.

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - how to paint an eye

 

Step 7: Outline the pupil and iris, with a darker shade of the colour of the eye.

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - iris painting

 

Step 8: Add another coordinating layer of colour to the iris.

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - diy eyeballs

 

Step 9:  Add some highlight colour to the center of the iris.

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - diy blue green eyeball

 

Step 10: Touch up the pupil of the eye with more black paint.

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - pupil

 

Step 11: Add a bit of lighter colour to the bottom half of the iris (I think this gives the eyeball a bit more life), and a white highlight (light reflection) to the upper right side of the pupil (or wherever you imagine the light source coming from).

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - diy eye highlight

 

Step 12: Then make a bunch more eyeballs in different colours!

 

Step 13: After the paint has dried, spray your new eyeballs with a Clear High Gloss Spray Paint, to make them shiny like real eyeballs!

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - rock eyes

 

DONE!!

 

To display them I put some black fake spider webs on a serving tray, placed the rock eyeballs on top of the spider webs, and added a couple spiders! And there you have it! A Spooky Tray of EYEBALLS!!

 

If you are looking to make your own spiders I have some fun beaded spider inspiration here!

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - halloween party decor

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - halloween

 

I hope this little tutorial inspires you to create your own Spooky Tray Of Eyeballs! You could use this tutorial to make a Halloween decoration all your own. Some other ideas include:

  • Painting a bunch of bigger rocks to look like eyeballs (monster eyeballs), and use them as a center piece on your Spooky diningroom table.
  • Mounting the eyeballs on a plack, and hanging them on the wall, or front door.
  • You could find a way to incorporate the eyeballs into a wreath for the front door?

 

I’d love to see your creations! Have fun!

Until Next time, have a Spooky Halloween, and enjoy making beautiful things everyday!

 

XO JCL

 

 

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs! - tutorial


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