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| Willow branches faux pussy and Easter mini The eggs hang from the branches. |
I made little willow twigs and miniature eggs to hang from in our dollhouse this Easter. Both are accurate and beautiful!
Support list:
- Oven-baked Sculpey Clay
- Pastel paints (acrylic)
- Thin wire to hang eggs
- Needle or pin to make holes
- Three or four cotton balls
- a bunch of twigs;
- strings
- Hot glue gun and glue
- white school glue
- Small garden pot
- Small pebbles or rocks
Step by step instructions:
- Pick a handful of fresh green sprigs from a shrub.
- Use hot glue to glue them together, just to the bottom of the assembly. no more than an inch. An adult will need to do this part of the craft.
- Glue twine around this lower end of the twig bunch to give it more strength.
- Now hot-glue this bundle inside a small, mini bowl. They are easy to find at a dollar store or hobby store.
- Fill the remaining empty space of the bowl with white school glue and small pebbles. Let the project dry overnight.
- Take several small cotton balls and loosen them.
- Using white glue on your fingertips, wrap very small amounts of cotton batting around the tips of the twigs to make the bundle look like a pussy willow.
- Roll small pieces of oven bread between your palms to form small eggs.
- Then with a needle or a paperclip, make small holes, not too deep, in the tops of these eggs. bread.
- After the eggs have cooled, paint them with pastel acrylic paints.
- Bend the soft wire to make hooks for the eggs. Insert these inside the holes of the faux eggs with a small squeeze of white glue. Let this dry.
- He hung the little eggs around the branches of the fake willow.
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| On the left, the penny gives an idea of the size. The doll-sized egg tree is hot glued to the inside of a mini garden pot. True, very small eggs carved from kiln clay are hung on it Willow branches faux pussy. See also the twisted cotton on these branches to Make it look more like Pussy Willow. |
Willow pussy
by Esther Hull Doolittle
Oh, pretty pussy willow,
You are something soft and silky,
you live on the side of the road,
And a harbinger of spring
When the world is gloomy,
And the singing birds do not sing,
When the sky is gray and cloudy,
It’s welcome news you’re attending!
More ways to display and craft egg trees: