June 11, 2009

Wooden dolls

Today's craft started out with me finding these at the craft store



they reminded me of a blog that I had come across awhile back that I had put on my to do list. You can go here to check it out.

So I set out to make my own family of peg people

I started by painting the head and top part of the body a skin tone. The color that I chose was very close to the color of the wooden peg but it also serves as primer so to speak for the hair color. It also gives your family a uniform skin tone.


I then penciled in how I want the hair line to look. I get inspiration from here, here, and here



Then using my very thin brush I out line with the paint along the line I have drawn







Then using my larger angled brush I cover the rest of the head. I usually do two coats.







Then using a pencil I mark where I want to put the eyes and mouth







Then using a toothpick I paint in the eyes and mouth








Now we accessorize. You can paint little bows or do like I did and make it look like little hair clips



There they all are. But wait, they need clothes!!



For the clothes I used scrap booking paper and mod podge



Then I finished it off with a little paint and one more layer of mod podge over the whole doll. Here they are all dressed and ready to go






Now they need a little house to live in. Also at Grace Violet's blog you can find a great tutorial and even a free printable pattern on how to make one.

Here is the one I made. I haven't finished decorating it yet but will be finishing that up real soon



4 comments:

  1. You don't know how long I have been wanting to try making those little people for my little people. I've just been chicken to try it.
    Maybe I'll give it a go for a summer craft???
    Thanks for the idea!

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  2. They are very easy to do. If you are just making them for your own kids they won't care if they are not perfert.

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  3. We LOVE peg people! We've been making a village over the past couple of weeks. Your little people may like one too :) Feel free to stop by for some ideas of places for your little peg people to visit :)
    http://thislittleproject.blogspot.com/2009/06/stop-and-go-in-village.html

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  4. I have seen your village come together and you are doing a fabulous job. Making a village is next on my list to do.

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