The Soda Straw Doll for Students

        Below is a printable diagram of how to make little soda straw dolls at our doll/puppet makers camp. You will need the following art supplies to make one doll: tacky white glue or paste, three soda straws, one yard of yarn, a plastic embroidery needle, a square of light weight cardboard approximately 5x5 inches, scissors and felt tip pens to draw the face of your doll.

The Directions:

1. From two straws cut the segments for the doll's arms, legs and vertebrae. The illustration below shows you how many you will need and the lengths of the cut units.
2. Cut the yard of yarn into one length of two feet, and you will have a second clipping of yarn that measures twelve inches in length.
3. Fold the two foot length in half and string on the torso and lower legs as seen in the diagram below. Knot the ends of the yarn where the feet of the doll would be to prevent the straw beads from falling off.
4. Cut a head of your doll from the cardboard. Do this twice and paste the yarn loop at the top of your doll between the front and back pieces of the doll's head. Let the paste or glue dry.
5. Draw a face on the cardboard head.
6. Now fold the second shorter length of yarn in half and knot it at your doll's neck.
7. String on the cut arms and knot these at the hands. Now your doll is ready for play!

String a soda straw doll for fun...