Sculpt Luncheon Meats and Cheese

Left, before the luncheon meat and cheese are painted. Right, after the paint is applied and
plastic tray lid is glued over the doll food permanently.

Doll size deli meat, crackers and cheese from Natural,
Oscar Meyer and Lunchables. These are clipped photos
from a magazine and then decoupaged onto cardboard.

       We made this 18" doll sized lunch meat and cheese tray using a recycled plastic lid once used in packaging for nails. It's amazing what you can think to make from uninteresting recycled packaging when you are crafting for the kitchen of a doll house. 

 Supply List:

• Sculpey or any oven bake clay
• Recycled plastic cover from small nail box
• acrylic paints: pink, yellow, white
• cardboard
• decorative paper
• white school glue
• tacky glue

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. First sculpt the tiny foods using your choice of either oven bake clay or air dry clay.
2. To make the luncheon meats: ham, turkey, pressed chicken or baloney, first roll up a tiny ball of clay between your fingers and then flatten it thin. Fold over the meat to make it look like deli types. I stacked my meats to look as these often do inside of lunch trays from our market.
3. Then to make the cheese I simply rolled out the clay and cut it into mini squares.
4. Bake these pieces in your oven as directed on the package of clay.
5. Paint the cheese slices pale yellow, orange or white depending upon the kind of cheese you doll likes best.
6. Paint the meat for a doll sized sandwich several pink shades.
7. Layer cardboard pieces to craft a tray for the 3d deli lunch foods. Make sure this cardboard bottom is the same size as your tiny plastic lid. 
8. Glue the clay foods on top of the cardboard tray and then glue the plastic tray cover on top of the crafted foods. I sealed our 3d example so that the tiny slices of cheese and deli meats would not be lost over time.

This little 3d project is sculpted, painted and then glued inside of a tray in order to protect
the tiny parts. Different close up views of the luncheon meats and
cheese sculpted using oven bake clay.

 Learn How to Make More Doll Foods:

• Taylor makes food for her American Girl Doll
• The AG Cooking Competition! AGSM
• Making doll groceries using fliers