This
week I am starting a short series of projects to get the dolls ready
to go back to school.
Here
in Oregon, where I live school is just about ready to start and the
stores are filled with back to school sales. Right in front of the
door I enter to do my grocery shopping in my favorite store are the
aisles of school supplies. I decided that it would be fun to
re-create some of those for our 18” doll friends.
Since
I have several things I want to do I decided to make this a multiple
week series. This week we will start out with some of those cute
little pink erasers, some pencils, and some folders so the dolls can
try to stay organized with all their homework.
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| starting to get ready for school |
We
start with the easiest of the projects the pink erasers, and you can
of course make them any color you want to. I just wanted to stay with
tradition on mine and made pink ones. These are super easy since they
are a basic shape and come in different sizes. Just get the general
shape correct and it will be fine. Any brand of polymer clay will
work for these, just pick a pink (or other color) you like and make a
bunch of erasers.
When
I started filming the pencil portion of the video I had intended to
just make some of the typical yellow pencils. However, part way
through I changed my mind and made some pretty purple ones too. There
are even two gorgeous purple glitter pencils!
The
pencils are made from 1/8” dowel from the craft store. Paint it
first before you cut it to make this much easier. Then after painting
cut your pencils 2 ½” long. Pick the end that looks the best for
the eraser end. For the sharpened end just use a regular pencil
sharpener and carefully sharpen them just like the real thing.
On
the folders I actually had no trouble at all when I made the first
one (off camera) then the moment I turned the camera on I kept
messing up. I ended up ruining a couple of sheet so 12” x 12”
cardstock before I got done. I made a mistake on this one on camera
too but it was minor and I decided to show you how to fix it.
Bonus
Project!!!!
Set
of Colored Pencils
The
set of 12 colored pencils is super easy and just a slight variation
from the regular pencils.
To
start you will need:
1/8”
dowels
Something
to cut the dowels with
Acrylic
paints (I used the kind in the tube but use what you have) in the
colors you want your colored pencils to be
Paint
brushes or cotton swabs
Clear
nail polish
Ruler
A
pen (or pencil) to mark where to cut.
A
manual pencil sharpener\
Block
of foam to use to hold “pencils” while they are drying
Emory
board or sandpaper4
Start
out by cutting your dowel into 3” lengths, this gives us a bit
extra to make painting easy. We will trim them to size later.
Next
prepare your foam block, I used a scrap of builders foam again use
whatever you have. You just need something to put the ends of the
dowel pieces into while the paint dries.
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| colors I used |
you want to use.
Paint
each dowel the color that you want it to be, being sure to keep track
of the colors used (we need them again later) Allow to dry and
re-coat as needed.
When
the paint is completely dry coat the pencils with clear nail polish.
When my bottles of clear polish start to get low I put them with my
paints so I can use them up for projects like this.
After
the polish dries cut your pencils to the correct size- 2 ½” in
our case. Use the Emory board to make sure one end is completely
straight and flat. Use the pencil sharpener to make a point on the
opposite end.
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| paint on the tips drying in foam block |
Allow
to dry and your dolls now have colored pencils for their art class!!!
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| finished colored pencils |
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