Mummified Baby Doll

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  Step 1

  Get your baby doll* and take of the head to remove the eyes and shape the mouth into something hideous.

  * Make it a small doll. Most dolls look like they're a few weeks old baby's at the least, this one had to be like a few months early for delivery.

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  Step 2

  Spray paint the head. I used black and gold because I had those lying around and it would give a bit of a moldy appearance if it ever shimmered through the toilet paper layers that were to follow.

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  Step 3

  Spraypaint the body too.

  Have it dry enough to handle it without getting paint everywhere.

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  Step 4

  Cover the head with a first layer of toilet paper. The paint was still a bit sticky so the toilet paper did not really need gluing.

  Cover the eyes. On this unborn baby they had not opened yet. I pricked open one eye later to represent some damage of being buried for a while.

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  Step 5

  Cover up the body with toilet paper as well. Remember to put the limbs in the desired position first because after adding the toilet paper they won't be moveable anymore.

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  Step 6

  Attach the head to the body again.

  I cut out some holes where I thought the space between the ribs should be. Remember it has been decaying for a bit, despite being embalmed and mummified.

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  Step 7

  Continue adding toilet paper with wallpaper glue until you think the layer is thick enough.

  Try out some colors, mostly brownish/greyish. You should mix the paint with wallpaper glue before applying to the toilet paper.

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  Step 8

  This piece of paper was added later to make some 'loose skin' and the umbilical cord.

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  Step 9

  The umbilical cord is a piece of twisted and glue-soaked toilet paper. Just glue it with one end to the baby.

  I put some crumpled up and painted toilet paper into the head to fill it a bit. It was such an empty space.

  The eyes are covered with toilet paper with a hole pricked into one.
  Underneath the open part of the ribcage there's some toilet paper to simulate shriveled lungs and other organs.

  I added darker splotches of paint here and there to represent dried up blood. It was a tragic 'birthing' and that had to show.

  This is the best picture I have of the finished result.

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amanda.shillito · Southend-on-Sea, England, GB · 3 projects 14th October 2013

I will make one of these. It is awesome! And the tutorial is so detailed! <3 Thank you for posting this!

Maladignia · Amersfoort, Utrecht, NL · 87 projects 16th October 2013

Thanks for the compliments.

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Strawberry Destruction · 1 project 6th April 2013

That's really creepy and kinda ingenious for a halloween idea at the same time.

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