Ok. I know. It’s not even September and I’m sharing a Halloween DIY. I swear: there will not be any other mention of Halloween until the end of September (promise). Buuut, Michaels sent me some foam pumpkins and I got inspired. So yeah. Hello Halloween DIY. Ha!
I created a Spooky Halloween Terrarium with this pumpkin. Comes with a little spooky home and crazy/wild bats. It’s intense. Perfect for Halloween 2013.
Here’s what you need to make this:
– A foam pumpkin from the Michaels
– Green floral foam
– Moss
– Wire
– Hot glue
– X-acto Knife
– Wire cutters
– Scissors
– A couple toothpicks
How I did it:
– Use an X-acto knife to cut a hole out of the front of your pumpkin. I cut about an 8 inch hole (I freehand cut, but you could use a pencil to mark out the hole before cutting).
– Optional: to get a bit more light into your pumpkin, cut a small section in the back (I cut the hole so it was not visible when looking through the front hole). I did this because the pumpkin is flammable and I didn’t really want to put any sort of heat source in or around it.
– Place a small piece of green floral foam in the bottom of your pumpkin.
– Put a layer of moss at the bottom (over the green floral foam) for the “ground cover”.
– Cut out a spooky house from my printable. Hot glue a couple of toothpicks to the back of the home. Push the home/toothpicks into the green floral foam.
– Press your branch into the green foam, behind the tree.
– Cut out a few of my bats from the printable (don’t worry about cutting these out perfectly, I didn’t). Gently fold the bat in half (so they look like they’re flying).
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– Cut out a couple bits of wire and hot glue the bats onto these wires.
– Arrange the wired bats around the interior of the pumpkin. You can push the wire INTO the foam part of the pumpkin, or have them flying up from the “grass” by pressing the wire into the green floral foam.
Enjoy! Side note: you can place this pumpkin near a lamp to get a wee bit of light into the back for a creepy nighttime glow. Just remember, pumpkin flammable.
– Chelsey
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P.S. these pumpkins were sent to me, free of charge, from Michaels.