Craft Lawn Care Tools for A Doll's House/Garage

Above left, You can see how I have shaped ordinary plastic forks and spoons into shovels
and a leaf rake using tape and paper mache pulp. Above right, a Barbie or Ken doll would
 be the appropriate size for the use of tools like these.

       The lawn care tools that I have made here are for a twelve inch doll. Later, I will include a craft about the making of a storage shed or tool shed to keep your doll's tools stored away. Until then, you can put them in a doll garage.

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

Step-by-Step Directions:

1. 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. 
2. Then tape this attachment firmly in place and let it dry.
3. Mask the lower snow shovel with aluminum tape and the upper handle with masking tape.
4. Now paint and seal the handle with green acrylic paint and clear acrylic sealer. 
5. The garden shovel is made from a plastic spoon and a bit of paper mache pulp. 
6. Cover the entire plastic spoon with masking tape.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Cover this handle with aluminum tape and paint the hardened spoon head shovel black.
10. Seal the garden shovel with clear acrylic or Mod Podge.
11. For the leaf rake, you will need to cut the handles from the tines of two plastic forks.
12. Tape firmly together the remaining eight tines to only one of the fork handles.
13. Mask the entire surface of your leaf rake down to the fork tines only.
14. Cover the tines of the rake with aluminum tape only.
15. Layer and smooth enough paper pulp over the root extension of the fork pieces to create a rake like looking tool.
16. 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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