Make Faux Chipwood Market Baskets and Contents

Left, a recycled wooden tray that once was packaging was decoupaged for our market stand.
 Center a variety of tiny fruits and veggies glued inside faux chipwood baskets made from
cardboard: cherries, goose berries, blue berries and grapes. Right, ochra, cherries, plums
 and ginger root up close.

       I made slated baskets or chipwood baskets to hold tiny fruit and veggies for our doll's market stand. Some of the mini fruits were glued directly into the baskets and others, a little larger, were left as individual fruits and veggies that could be removed individually: ocra, ginger root, plums and brussel sprouts.

The wood slat or chipwood printable pattern.

Supply List for Miniature Slat Baskets and Contents:

• cardboard (cereal box)
• printable pattern
• masking tape
• white school glue
• faux wood printed paper
• brown paper bag
• Sculpey oven bake clay
• acrylic paints
• tiny paint brushes
• Mod Podge
• Styrofoam pellets
• newsprint 

Step-by-Step Instructions: 

1. Upload and print my pattern for the chipwood or slatted basket on the right. You may adjust it's size in Photoshop or by dragging it into a Word Document and altering it's size there. The size of the basket will depend on the amount of fruit you would like to include inside it. Our baskets (photo above) measured approximately 1 inch.
2. Make a cardboard template from the pattern. Draw around it on top of additional cardboard for the faux baskets.
3. Bend at the dotted lines and also at the arched corners. Ad a bite of white glue at each corner. Let dry.
4. I decoupaged the baskets with brown paper bags next. 
5. For the baskets filled with tiny fruits, you will need to crush newsprint and firmly press this into the basket construction. 
6. Mask this in place with tape, just below the top of the basket. In this way, the basket will look as though it is 'filled' with fruit to the top.
7. Using white school glue, pool the glue and add the foam pellets. Let these dry. 
8. Paint the pellets green or blue to look like berries and grapes before sealing them with Mod Podge over the top. 
9. I sculpted a few leaves for the grapes and glued these on top of this berry box.
10. Now sculpt the individual fruits and veggies for the loose filled baskets from oven bake clay.
11. Let these sculpted edibles cool and paint them.
12. Decoupage the outside edges of each chipwood basket using the decorative faux wood paper.