Straw Dolls of Every Kind

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

Straw Dolls of Every Kind

What a jolly corner we have to-day. girls! Your friend Tinkerbell feels ■ |uito; pleased with lier»erlf. T am cure that you, too, will delight in making these funny little lolk, which were ali created from a heap of ordinary drinking straws and sonic odds and ends of coloured |>aper nnd cotton-wool.

Cut two drinking straws into .iin length*. Slip a pipe-flea nw into each

one. Ttttet the ends of the cleaner* together tightly at. the top. This form* the doll's neck. Xow take another straw. Cut off two 3in fengfli* and slip one on each end of a pipe-cleaner. Thiforms the doll's arms. The centre o> this pipe-cleaner is tightly twisted about the doll's neck and the arms bent into -happ. Xow the body is finished and yoti are ready to make a head for von

Paint a doll's face on a piece of crepe paper. Slip a ball of cotton wool upon doll's neck, cover this with paper and tie tightly under the chin with thread. Then paint hair. You will see sonic ideas for faces in the heading of this hobbycraft corner.

Lumps of clay form the doll's feet Make paper doll's clothes, slip then over doll's head and paste the seams together. Sashes, scarves and aprons may be pasted on, too. By using several colours of crepe faces you can make dolls of all lafius.

For the Mexican's bat you cut a circle of paper as shown. Paste edges together, turn back brim and decorate. For the scarf, colour a strip of paper and slash ends finely and neatly.