To make our crates look full without spending too much money on clay, we have crafted "display lids" for our corn and peas. In addition to these lids, loose peas are piled on top of the bushel lid so that the dolls may take some home with them during play. Like wise, we also made loose cobs to arrange on top of the large display lid made for our crate of corn.
Finished corn on the cob crate lid, from the side and overhead photos. |
Finished bushel of peas toy. Make a pea-pod patch craft. |
- white school glue
- corrugated cardboard
- masking tape
- Sculpey oven bake clay
- vegetable mold
- acrylic paints
- ribbon
- brown paper bag
- wooden craft sticks
- I used an AMACO vegetable mold for this craft
More links to corn and peas:
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Cut a cardboard shelf, to fit just inside the crate's opening.
- Cut from the cardboard or wooden craft sticks a narrow bracket to adhere with glue and tape 1/2inch from the opening of your selected crate. The bushel's bracket was made from a cardboard tube.
- Now fit the shelves into the crate and bushel containers. You may need to trim the new cardboard shelves a little in order to do this. The shelves should balance on top of the brackets neat and snug, allowing for there to be room for storage beneath it.
- Finish the interior of the crate using layers of paper and glue, a decoupage method. After this dries you will use it to store individual pieces that are represented on the top of the crates 'display lid.'
- Cover the shelves with masking tape. (both sides)
- Glue small loops of the ribbon to opposite sides of new shelves and reinforce with tape. It is necessary to include these at either side of the shelves so that these may be easily removed to access the inside of each crate and bushel.
- Decoupage the underside of the new shelves.
- Now mold enough peas and corn cobs to cover the shelves.
- Bake these molded vegetables.
- Glue the pieces to the top of the new shelves. These shelves will make your crates and bushels appear full.
- Paint the lids to look just like real corn cobs and peas.
- Now mold extra vegetables and paint these to pile on top of the shelves. These are the loose veggies that your dolls may pay for and carry home.
- While your market is stored away, put the loose veggies in small bags and store these inside the crate and/or bushel.
Left, see the corn on the cob loose parts stacked on top of the lid so that the dolls may pretend to purchase them and carry these home. Right, more of the same. |
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