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Baby Carriage Kids Crafts

Baby Carriage Kids Crafts

This is a great project for a baby shower or for someone having a new baby.
Age
5 and up
This project is rated Medium to do.
What you need

• 4 Paper Plates
• Styrofoam ball
• Green Chenille Pipe Cleaner
• Craft paints (two shades of green, blue, white, black, tan)
• Google eyes
• Craft Stick (popsicle stick)
• Marker
• Low Temp Glue Gun

What you do

1. Cut out a carriage shape out of a paper plate referencing the photo. We simply cut out a triangular shape with curvy sides).
2. We made this 3 dimensional. As such put another paper plate back to back with your new shape (the side that you eat on will face each other). This gives you a bowed container shape.
3. Glue the two paper plates together.
4. Paint the carriage using any colors that you wish. We chose colors to match our wrapping paper. Feel free to use blues or pinks.
5. Cut circles out of two other paper plates for the wheels. We used a cup to make the circle shape.
6. Cut a heart shape spoke of the wheel.
7. Paint a coordinating color of your choose.
8. Paint the Styrofoam ball a flesh color. We placed the ball on a small paper cup to dry between coats.
9. Glue Google eyes.
10. Curl a chenille stick around a pencil and insert in the Styrofoam ball head.
11. Insert Popsicle stick into the bottom of the baby head.
12. Paint and glue the wheels.
13. Attach head by gluing Popsicle stick to the inside back portion of the carriage.
14. Add details to the project with coordinating paints and markers.