Cone Dolls Are Fun and Easy to Make
This project is virtually perfect. It's easy, fun and quick to make. It will hold the interest of kids for hours. Even the youngest creative little hands can produce masterpieces with this activity. Better yet, you've already got most of what you'll need. Substitutions can be made for almost everything else. Any supplies that you don't have are inexpensive and readily available at any neighborhood discount or department store.
Instructions
Make the Doll's Head
1. Use a knife with a serrated blade to evenly cut about 1/8 inch from the styrofoam ball, giving it a flat edge for the bottom of the doll's head.
2. Create the doll's face, starting by gluing wiggly eyes into place. Use a straight pin or glue to affix a sequin for the nose. Beads or a piece of yarn or elbow macaroni can be glued into place for a smile. Decorative straight pins, sequins or beads make lovely earrings.
3. Give the doll lots of hair by pulling cotton balls out of shape and gluing them into place. Spritz the cotton hair with colored spray glitter for an elegant touch. You could opt to glue pieces of thick yarn closely together on the head to cover it with a layer of hair. Then create yarn braids or ponytails, and glue them into place. You can even use decorative pins to secure them, creating pretty barrettes. Set the head aside and allow the glue to dry completely.
Make the Doll's Body
4. Decorate the paper plate or construction paper with markers, crayons, colored pencils, or paints. Allow it to dry completely. This will become the doll's body.
5. Roll the decorated paper plate or construction paper into the shape of a cone. Experiment with it a little by moving it around, until the size, shape and dimensions please you. Fasten the form with a couple of straight pins so that it won't move around while you're working with it. Glue the outer edge and press it firmly into place. Allow the glue to dry thoroughly.
6. Use scissors to trim the bottom edge of the doll so that it will be even all the way around. This will allow the doll to be able to stand on its own. Remove the straight pins from the cone. Pinch about ¾ inch of the top of the cone between your thumb and forefinger, flattening it, and crease it sharply. Fold the flattened point over at a 90-degree angle, and secure it with a straight pin or two. This forms the base for attaching the doll's head to the body.
7. Glue the flat bottom of the doll's head onto the flattened part of the cone body. Use 2 to 3 straight pins to secure the head into place. Give the glue plenty of time to dry thoroughly before going any further.
8. Decorate the doll even further by stringing pasta, sequins and beads onto thin wire to create necklaces. Glue on a square piece of cloth to make an apron. Rick-rack can become a headband for gluing feathers onto. Put glitter everywhere! Adorn braids with bits of fancy ribbon. Mustaches and beards can be cut from bits of felt or fleece. Create funny hats. Paper strips can be crafted into fringe for the hems of gowns. Pasta, beads, bits of metallic cording, and almost anything else you can think of can be glued onto the cone to produce whatever effects you choose.
Have a Puppet Show
9. Use markers, crayons, colored pencils, and paints to create a "set" inside a shoe box. You can even use images cut from magazines. Add doll furniture or other "props" if you like.
10. Use a favorite story. You could, instead, create your own script and assign roles to the dolls.
11. Glue paper clips to the backs of the dolls, and place them near the back "wall" of the shoe box set. Use magnets from behind the shoe box to move the dolls around with.
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