How to make a Christmas popcorn tin for dolls . . .

       In the United States, people often gift large quantities of popcorn to their family and friends packaged inside giant tins. This popcorn is not your average variety, buttered or plain, like the popcorn purchased from a movie theater or at a fair. This popcorn comes in a wide assortment of flavors like: caramel with peanuts, peppermint, cheddar cheese, and other candy flavors. The flavor choices are divided from each other inside the tin by a cardboard partition with two or four compartments. Our Christmas popcorn tin has two special varieties: peppermint and cheddar cheese.

 Popcorn tins are usually barrel shaped and decorated with all kinds of festive
 Christmas scenes.The one we use for this dolly craft is just the
right size for 18'' dolls.

        To make a craft for your doll's Christmas popcorn you will first need a tin with Christmas motifs on the outside. These are easy to find in thrift stores, grocery stores, hobby shops and online. Scrap cardboard, newsprint or tissue paper, white school glue, Mod Podge, masking tape, Styrofoam beads and acrylic paints are all the supplies necessary for the following process.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. 

   The finished 18" doll sized popcorn
   tin for Christmas play.

   Clean a small Christmas tin for this craft. Make sure the tin is thoroughly dry before proceeding to the following steps.
2. Stuff the tin with crushed newsprint or tissue paper all the way up the inside of the can minus about an inch of space from the top.
3. Fold a piece of scrap white cardboard to fit and divide a shallow space at the top of the can. This cardboard should fit snuggly on top of the crushed paper, across the filled cavity.
4. Squeeze a generous portion of white school glue inside of each space and fill these with the white Styrofoam beads. Let dry.
5. Repeat step 4. again if necessary. Sometimes the beads settle and you might need a second application to make the divided spaces look as though each is filled generously with pretend popcorn.
6. Paint the Styrofoam beads with acrylic colors representing the kind of popcorn you wish your dolls to eat during the holidays. I used yellow for faux 'cheddar cheese flavor' and pink for faux 'peppermint' flavor.
7. Once the paints are dry, seal all of the inside parts with a coat or two of Mod Podge.

More Doll Popcorn Crafts and Poetry:

• Make your dolls paper mache buckets of movie popcorn
• Handcrafted Jiffy Pop for American Girl Dolls
• Pioneer Christmas garland made to look like popcorn
• Popping Corn Poem