How To Make a Mannequin

One more post on my daughter's crafty doings!

While I was out one morning
my daughter got it in her head that she wanted to make
her very own mannequin to dress up in her own clothes.

So how did she learn to make one??
From again, the handy-dandy internet!

First you find an old shirt and pair of shorts
that you wouldn't mind not having anymore...
Then you put them on and have someone duct tape you
all over the shorts and shirt.
(Do them separately.)

Then cut one seam up the back and take them off.
Stuff them with newspaper, and then
duct tape the two pieces together.

Then cut newspaper shreds and
paper mache' the paper onto the duct-taped form.
(Be sure not the make the glue too watery. Hers
was a little too watery so the paper had problems
with sticking properly.)

After it dries completely, paint the form.

And there you have it!
You're very own mannequin in just your size!
Not bad, eh? For a 12 year old!

Sculpey Teddy Bears

The kids and I are on a 2 week Fall break from school.
Which translates to: find lots of things to keep them busy!

All of these kids aren't mine...
just the precious one with the long, black hair and white shirt.
The rest are friends and neighbors.
They are sculpting with Sculpey clay.

They all decided to make teddy bears.
Here's Josh working on his Polar Bear.

And here's Michael's Brown Bear and Megan's Polar Mom & Baby!

Summer did a Panda Daddy and
Megan did a Polar Daddy.

You bake them in a glass dish at 245 degress
for about 15-20 minutes.

Aren't they cute?!
This best part was that it kept those kids busy for at least an hour and a half!

Our Own Cake Boss

My daughter loves watching the CAKE BOSS show.

He is SO talented.
He makes works of art like this...

...and these. Amazing.

One day my daughter got inspired to do some cake baking of her own. We had a cake mix, but no frosting so she turned to the handy-dandy internet and found a recipe!

What a smart girl!

She mixed, baked, and frosted the entire cake all by HERSELF!

It's her PEACE sign creation.

Preeeetty cute!

And it didn't taste bad either!

(She also won that cute cake stand from a raffle. See, she was destined to bake cakes!)