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A Halloween diorama built in an old antique baby carriage!
This is a fun project to make around Halloween. I made it for my Halloween Room in my house.
You can use an old baby carriage (I found mine in an antique store for $35) or you can use an old wooden milk bottle crate, or old picket fence tops made into a box. Use your imagination and what you can find. The possibilities are endless!
I collect Spooky Town houses and figurines from Micheals. So I wanted to make a diorama to show off some of my collection. You can use anything you can find around Halloween time. Mini skeletons, small tombstones, make jack o lanterns out of sculpty. Use your imagination and go wild!
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Kaitlynn L. favorited Halloween Baby Carriage Diorama
01 Sep 14:37
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Step 1Get all your supplies ready and in one place. Work somewhere where you can make a mess! Plug in your hot glue gun to get it all ready!
Bring in a friend to help. I brought in Gup Gup the pug for moral support.
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Step 2Use scrapes of Styrofoam or cardboard to use on the bottom of your carriage. I used the packaging for my Spooky Town haunted house. These will not be seen. All you want is to fill up dead space in the bottom of the carriage.
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Step 3Measure the inside of your carriage and then cut a piece of foam to that size. I used upholstery foam. You can also use foam core or floral foam.
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Step 4Place your piece of foam inside the carriage on top of the 'filler'.
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Step 5Place the objects you will put in the diorama on the foam to make sure they all fit. This is a good time to figure out where everything will go!
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Step 6Get your glue gun (which should be hot by now) and start gluing (from the furthest part of the diorama towards the front of it) your moss down.
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Step 7This is what it should start to look like. Fill in any gaps where you can see the foam under the moss.
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Step 8Now starts the fun part! Start placing your objects onto the moss. I used just a dab of hot glue to the bottom of the tombstones so they would stay in place. I did not do this with the haunted house because it was heavy enough to stand on it own without the help of glue. I try not to glue objects down that don't need it because I might want to move them or remove them in the future.
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Step 9I took some pebbles from my garden and hot glued them down to make a pathway for the ghosts!
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Step 10I then took my vulture and using the wires that were already attached to his feet, I tied them around the handle of the carriage.
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Step 11I did the same thing for the crows on different parts of the carriage.
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Step 12It was then wheeled over to my TV Corner, where it joined the rest of my spooky decor!
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Step 13All finished. Took me just under and hour to make!
What a lucky find with that carriage. If i had a baby, i'd totally paint it black, & use that thing! lol Its awesome.
& if i had that vulture. Id put him on my porch. XD
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