Dollar Tree Plunger Witch Broom DIY for Outdoors

I am creating a witch theme for our front yard this Halloween, beginning with the Halloween witch prop I made last year and the two pool noodle Halloween candles. This year I want to add a few more easy-to-make outdoor Halloween decorations – including a couple of different styles of witch brooms.

How to Make a Witches Broom

Have you seen the small witches’ brooms people are making with Dollar Tree plungers? These plungers are the perfect start to our larger witch brooms. I then added a longer handle, some cement for stability, and some Dollar Tree embellishments. Let’s begin with a supply list.

Witch’s Broomstick Supplies

This list is for one witch’s broomstick, although I made two. As most of the supplies came from Dollar Tree each broom cost me $9

Step One – Making the Witch Broom Stand Up

The first thing is to remove the plunger handle and mix two cups of concrete according to the instructions on your package. Mine said 66 lbs /23 liters, so I skipped the math. A flat container works much better to mix the concrete in, and I found that using the plunger handle worked well.

Place 3 cups of concrete to 1/2 cup of water, and add more water or concrete as needed. Stir it until you get a thick concrete mix. Pour into the rubber end of the plunger, and let dry. It only takes an hour or less.

Step Two – Adding the Broom Handle

I assumed the broom handle would fit into the top of the plunger but it did not. Fill the plunger top with hot glue, then slowly twist the broom handle down into the hole allowing the glue time to fill in the corkscrew shape. Don’t worry about the overflow were covering our plunger later. Make sure the handle is straight up and set aside to harden.

Step Three – Attach Lights and Make a Skirt

Having lights is optional but I put on some old Christmas battery lights on mine. Begin by attaching the lights to the bottom of your broom using packing tape. Cut a piece of dark scrap fabric about 13 by 24 inches. Fold one short side back to form a crease. Glue this section to the plunger rubber in front of the battery pack. Do the same thing on the other side.

Gather the top of your fabric and cinch it using a black zip tie. Even if you choose not to add lights to your witch’s broom, I recommend adding the skirt to camouflage the plunger and broom handle top.

Step Four – Make the Broom Head Bristle Bundles

While the glue dries, decide how long you want your broom head to be, mine is 13 inches. Cut a piece of scrap wood 13 inches long, if not scrap wood use a dollar tree sign, not cardboard. We will make the strips into bundles that we can tie to our broom.

1. Cut a two-foot piece of black rope for the wrapping, and set aside.
2. Wrap the black cord around the wood block placing the wraps as close together as possible.
3. When you get to the end cut off about a foot long you will use this to glue your bundle
4. The end that has the end you started with will become the bottom of your broom. At the upper end, we will make the top side of the broom head. Apply hot glue one inch from the top of the bundle, across the entire width. Add a cross piece of cord, let cool, and repeat on the other side.
5. Once your hot glue is cool cut open the bottom of your bundle, Remove from the wood block. If you have difficulty use a paint scraper to lift the bundle off the wood.
6. Fold the bristles over and tie a knot at each side with the cross pieces. Decide which is the longest tail you have on each side, and cut the rest off to reduce the bulk of your bundle. Hot glue the ends to secure.

Repeat these steps for every bundle. So much easier than trying to bundle them up individually and wrap them around the broom handle.

Step 4 – Attaching the Bristles

Attach each of your bristle bundles to your broom, tying two opposite each other. Then two more on the opposite sides. Once you have all the bristles attached use a zip tie to cinch your broom in place.

Using a glue gun straighten out any wild bristles, glue, and clamp them to either a neighboring bristle or to the skirt.

​Step 5 Decorating the Witch’s Broom

This is always the most fun. To make this broom more fun than spooky I used sparkles, fairy lights, and pretty ribbons. I wrapped the ribbon around the zip ties and top of the broom and tied them into pretty ribbons. Then I added dollar tree accessories in little bows with sparkly skulls and sparkling bats.

The Dollar Tree Witch Broom at Night

Most Halloween decorations come to life at night but are somewhat difficult to capture with a camera. This is how the broom looks at dusk with the fairy lights twinkling. It’s spooky without being scary, I hope you love it as much as I do.

Video Step-by-Step Tutorial

In this video tutorial, I show you every part of making this fun witch broom.

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