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DIY Skull Pedestal Stands – Grandin Road Dupe

Spooky Season is approaching, and I have 5 Grandin Road inspired/dupe Halloween DIYs for you, starting with these DIY SKull Pedastal Stands!

At Grandin Road, these babies cost $79.50 A PIECE! OUCH!! So I set out to make them for far less using Dollar Tree & Goodwill pieces. And not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think they turned out SO stinking cute!

grandin road skull pedastal stand DIY dupe — Here’s my Grandin Road inspo!

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Skull Pedastal Stands – What You’ll Need:

Two large candle holders (I suggest Goodwill!), one shorter & one taller
Dollar Tree Styrofoam Skull heads (2)
Acryclic Paint
Paintbrushes
Black Spraypaint (I used Semi-Gloss)
Small crow
Small crown or flower (I grabbed a flower from the Dollar Tree)
Jewels
Hot Glue/ Glue Gun
Gold Gilding & adhesive
Spray Polyurethane

Skull Pedastal Stands – How To:

Step 1: Clean your candle holders with some soap and water and dry thoroughly. Next, spray paint your candle holders and let them dry.

Step 2: While your candle holders are drying, mix up your desired color of acrylic paint (I used another plastic skull head I had on hand for reference) and paint your styrofoam skull heads.

painting skull heads for skull pedestal stands diy

You could also use plastic skull heads in place of paintable ones, but I really enjoyed being able to customize the paintable version though!

Step 3: Once everything is dry, hot glue your skulls onto the top of your candle holders and allow to dry. Be sure to use a good amount of glue!

Step 4: Now, hot glue your crow onto the taller of your skull pedestal stands, and your crown or flower onto the other.

Step 5: Next, it’s time for the fun part – embellishments! I added some iridescent jewels to the skulls eyes to simulate the light-up look of the Grandin Road version. I also added some gold gilding to the skulls to elevate them a bit as well!

You can really customize your Skull Pedestal Stands here, so have fun!

skull pedestal stands diy grandin road dupe

Step 6: Spray your DIY Skull Pedestal Stands with some Spray Polyurethane (I used Satin but Semi-Gloss would be better here) to lock your gold gilding in place.

And voila! You not have 2 adorable (and light weight!) DIY Skull Pedestal Stands that didn’t cost you a fortune! They are so cute styled on a table, Halloween Bar, or open shelving.