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| DIY a Thanksgiving Feast for Your American Girl Doll and All Her Friends! |
Feasting is an occupation that our dolls are quite accustomed to. In fact, they appear to eat, drink and be merry more than any humans we have ever known. We are certain these pretend meals would cost a small fortune in real life, but as long as we are only pretending . . . why not be extravagant?
The following festive, winter dishes require: oven bake clay, paper mache pulp, masking tape, sticky white glue, glitter glue pens, Mod Podge, newsprint and acrylic paints. All sides are made to fit into a small ramekin. See my hot cocoa methods for fitting food inside of dishes here. These dolly foods are made to be removed easily from their dishes, just in case your dolls get tired of eating the same holiday food everyday!
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| Step-by-Step photo of Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows. |
To make the sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping you will need to shape tissue paper or newsprint to fit the inside of a ramekin. Make sure that you mound up the paper while pressing it into the ramekin so that your pretend food will look bountiful inside the small dish that your fitting it to for this pretend food craft. Now apply masking tape to the top and carefully remove the crushed paper. Also apply masking tape to the bottom of the faux food. Do these two steps for every side dish shown on this post, excluding the cranberry sauce.
Now mix together the paper mache pulp according to the directions on the package. You will need only a small amount of this for two projects included here, perhaps only half a cup.
Mound the pulp on top of the masked paper so that it looks like whipped sweet potatoes.
Shape a bit of Sculpey clay into a long, narrow snake-like shape by carefully rolling the clay between the palms of your hands. Cut off little segments to make the faux marshmallow shapes. Heat your oven to 270 degrees and bake these small pieces for ten minutes. Let them cool.
Push the tiny clay marshmallows into the damp paper pulp and let the whole sweet potato mash dry solid. This may take a few days. Put your side dish near a heat source to speed up the process.
Paint the sweet potatoes orange, let them dry, and then paint the marshmallows white.
Cover the Thanksgiving side dish with Mod Podge or white school glue to seal the surfaces.
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| Step-by-Step photo of Traditional Mashed Idaho Potatoes Topped With Bacon and Chives. |
The mashed Idaho potatoes are made by a similar method to the sweet potatoes above. After the paper pulp has dried, paint the potatoes white.
Cut tiny pieces of green paper for chives and bits of brown for bacon. Glue these on top of the painted pulp.
I also squeezed a bit of white puff paint onto the surface of my mashed potatoes to create mixed textures, but this step is optional.
Seal the finished old-fashioned mash potatoes with white school glue or Mod Podge if you've got it on hand.
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| Step-by-Step photo of Christmas Green Beans with Tomatoes. |
To make the Christmas Green Beans, follow the steps above that describe how to fit the paper mache base inside the ramekin.
Shape tomatoes and green beans using an oven-bake clay like Sculpey. I rolled fat ovals between my fingertips for the tomatoes and thin, long shapes for the green beans.
Then glue the veggies onto the top of the crushed and masked newsprint bottoms.
Paint the tomatoes a brilliant red and the green beans with green acrylic paints.
Seal the finished side-dish with Mod Podge to preserve if for play.
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| Step-by-Step photo of Macaroni and Cheese. |
Make the macaroni and cheese by, repeating the steps above that describe how to fit the paper mache base inside the ramekin.
Shape oven bake clay into tiny macaroni by rolling out long thin pieces of clay, cutting it into short segments, and then bending it into shapes that look like the small letter "c."
Bake the clay for five minutes in the oven and let the tiny macaroni cool before gluing it in place on top of the paper mache.
Paint the mac and cheese orange and yellow. I then squeezed a bit of yellow glitter glue onto the top of the dish to make it look more realistic. Seal the entire dish with Mod Podge.
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| Step-by-Step photo of Cranberry Sauce. |
The cranberries pictured above are made a bit differently. I cut a tiny dish from a paper egg carton, you may use a small lid alternatively if you don't have a paper egg carton. I then filled this tiny dish with Styrofoam beads. After they glue dries, paint the beads with a cranberry colored acrylic paint.
Also paint the tiny bowl white or any color you prefer to coordinate with your other doll dishes. Seal everything with a white school glue or Mod Podge to make it all last.
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| Step-by-Step photo of Old-Fashioned Cinnamon Apples. |
Repeat all of the steps above except for those given in description of the cranberries. Shape the oven-bake clay into tiny moon-like pieces. Bake these and glue them to the surface of your paper mache form. (see photo above)
Paint the cinnamon apples using gold, tan and yellow acrylics alternatively. Seal the entire faux side-dish with Mod Podge.
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