Supply List:
- plastic forks and spoons
- masking tape
- white school glue
- aluminum foil tape
- paper mache pulp
- sturdy scissors
- acrylic paints: green and black
- scrap corrugated cardboard
- clear acrylic sealer or Mod Podge
- For the snow shovel, cut the handle from a plastic spoon, but leave enough of the spoon's lip to sandwich it between a corrugated cardboard cut out of a shovel shape along with a few drops of glue.
- Then tape this attachment firmly in place and let it dry.
- Mask the lower snow shovel with aluminum tape and the upper handle with masking tape.
- Now paint and seal the handle with green acrylic paint and clear acrylic sealer.
- The garden shovel is made from a plastic spoon and a bit of paper mache pulp.
- Cover the entire plastic spoon with masking tape.
- Mix and shape the paper pulp around the spoon head to mimic a real garden shovel. You may find that looking at a real garden shovel improves this process.
- Let the shovel dry until it is hard before finishing the project. This may take a day or two of leaving the spoon in the sunshine.
- Cover this handle with aluminum tape and paint the hardened spoon head shovel black.
- Seal the garden shovel with clear acrylic or Mod Podge.
- For the leaf rake, you will need to cut the handles from the tines of two plastic forks.
- Tape firmly together the remaining eight tines to only one of the fork handles.
- Mask the entire surface of your leaf rake down to the fork tines only.
- Cover the tines of the rake with aluminum tape only.
- Layer and smooth enough paper pulp over the root extension of the fork pieces to create a rake like looking tool.
- Let the pulp harden in the sun for a few days and paint it green before spraying the entire surface with clear acrylic.
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Can you make a garden gnome for my American Girl Doll's Garden?
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