Create these colorful outdoor decor DIY’s using items from your local dollar store.

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There is something about beautiful pops of color in the yard or patio that makes my eyes happy. Does it make you feel the same way? It’s an added bonus that you can make these for just a few dollars using items from Dollar Tree. Let me show you how to make these adorable mushrooms. If you prefer to watch the step by step video on this project as well as a few other dollar outdoor DIY’s, click on my YouTube video at the bottom of this post.

For the top part of the mushrooms, we will be using a plastic garden dish and two plastic bowls. These can be found at Dollar Tree. The small bowls come in a pack of three in the party section.

We will be painting the bottom of each of the bowls in a different color. I chose to use chalk paint, because it adheres to almost anything. You could also spray paint them. I painted the garden dish in Crimson Red.

One of the small bowls I painted with Waverly’s chalk paint in the color peacock.

I wanted a lighter color yellow for the final bowl. I mixed white chalk paint with the yellow I had on hand to achieve this.

I’m sure your wondering what we are using for the base of our mushrooms. For the two smaller bowls, I am using two 3.5″ terra cotta pots, you can find these at Dollar Tree. For the garden dish, I am using a plastic tumbler that is the same diameter as the terra cotta pots, but it is twice the height. I found this one at Wal-Mart on sale for 50 cents.

Paint each one of these with two coats of white chalk paint.

Grab three different size sponge pouncers from Dollar Tree. We will be using these to make the circles on our mushrooms.

I used the largest one for the garden dish first, then used the medium size to add circles between the larger circles. And used the medium and small one to do the same thing for the two smaller bowls.

Since these will be outdoors, we need to seal them. I used Mod Podge with a gloss finish. You could use a clear spray sealant if you prefer.

Time to assemble!

Now we can attach our tumbler to the garden dish. I applied E6000 (a permanent glue) to the bottom of the tumbler. I also added a little hot glue to hold it in place while the E6000 set up. Then placed this in the center of the inside of the garden dish.

I repeated this process for the terra cotta pots, however I chose to apply the glue to the rims instead of the bottom. I thought it looked better that way.

All finished, and I love the final result.

Before you leave, I wanted to share another cute project made using Dollar store items. It’s an adorable turtle plant holder. If you would like to see how to make this one, watch my YouTube video below.

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