Create a spooky DIY baby mobile featuring skulls—perfect for adding creepy charm to your doll display. Easy, fun, and Halloween-ready!
For this year’s Halloween Trail, I wanted to set up a creepy doll area that looked like a nursery. Where we were outdoors, were obviously limited a little bit, but one of the things I decided to do was 3D print a skull baby mobile.
I had to paint it to get the look that you see, but it came out great and it really worked for the setup.
This is going to be a pretty quick tutorial.
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DIY Skull Baby Mobile
Project Supplies
- Red and black acrylic paint
- UV resistant clear acrylic coating
- Paint brushes
- Newspaper to protect your table
- 3D Printed skull mobile (“Wind Chime of Death” on Bambu app)
- Clear fishing twine
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1: Start by 3D printing your design. This was available in the Bambu lab store for free.
I printed it in white so that I could paint it.
Apparently I didn’t take a picture of the 3D printed skull before I started painting, but you can see some of the pieces painted in step 2.
Step 2: I used red and black acrylic paint to paint this. You could probably make some brown in as well if you wanted.
This is tricky to explain, but I used a layer of black around some of the edges, the interior of the skull, and any area I felt that should be dark. If it doesn’t make you happy, you can wipe it off pretty easily before it dries, or paint over it.
I let it dry a bit, then used the red paint on top and blended it a bit. I did a bit extra with the red on the jaw bone.
Let dry thoroughly.
Doing this all on some newspaper helps make it easier to move this somewhere to dry.
Step 3: I used UV resistant clear acrylic coating over this to protect it seeing it was going outdoors… I did a few layers.
Obviously don’t do this if you’re going to give it to a baby. I’m not sure any of this would be safe for a child. There’s probably some safer choices to make here for that.
Step 4: To finish the project, you can use some clear fishing line to attach all of the pieces together. You could also buy a mobile kit to get it moving and everything… But I didn’t want to spend that kind of money on one time use Halloween decoration.
Also… don’t judge me if I tied the pieces on wrong. I was confused, but also rushed.
Here’s a few more photos…
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