How INCREDIBLY fun! This year a friend and I decided we wanted to mix both our love for Halloween and for plants, so here we have Cemeterarriums. Yep. A cemetery-styled terrarium.

This is a really fun craft to do anytime around the Halloween season (and by season, I mean October 1 - Thanksgiving. Halloween isn’t just a day, people!)

My friend ended up doing a lot of the fore-planning on this one, and for that I commend her. Hannah, you’re a boss. Ok, so materials!

Glass terrariums
Cactus/Succulent soil mix
Plant Moss
Succulents!
Miniature tombstones, handmade by Hannah
Miniature skeletons
Other miscellaneous spooky items, as desired

After gathering all of our materials, my Hannah and I laid everything out and got started.

STEP ONE: Peel your stickers off your terrariums, and unpackages all the things.
STEP TWO: Space plan in your terrarium. Mine (pictured) is a little smaller, and I really wanted to use my little mausoleum, so I had to plan accordingly.
STEP THREE: Layer about an inch of the cactus/succulent mix on the bottom of your terrarium.
STEP FOUR: Gently remove your succulents from their small nursery pots and loosen up their little baby roots.
STEP FIVE: Start to arrange your desired succulents, skeletons, creepy little odds and ends.
STEP SIX: Once you get things arranged about where you want them, pull out your skeletons and creepy odds and ends.
STEP SEVEN: Taking a spoon, slowly start shoveling in more cactus/succulent mix to secure the tiny adorable roots. If you are having a hard time getting things to stay in place, you can use a spritz bottle to lightly moisten the soil.
STEP EIGHT: Once all your succulents are in place, add your moss, gently placing around all the corners and cracks.
STEP NINE: Throw in the final skeletons and creepy odds and ends, and you’re done!

And with the rest of my skeletons? I slowly snuck them into the rest of my plants.

Cemeterarriums!