PLACE CARD

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 131, 27 February 1937, Page 23

PLACE CARD

Caricatures in Table

Decoration

A pound bag of mixed nuts contains sufficient material for the making of many attractive, novel ami out of the ordinary caricatures of men, amma.s and birds to be used as place cards when something different is desired by the hostess who gives a dinner party. The making of these statuettes is not difficult, as liquid glue and ordinary pipe cleaners are used to ,ioin_ the parts together. To prick a hole in tlm shells of the nuts, a nail driven in the head of a clothes pin, then shai’penefl to a needle point with a file, makes a splendid tool. Ostrich feathers plucked from an old plume, small tufts of cotton and water-colour paints are also needed.

Start making the caricatures by selecting nuts suitable for the model. For example, two pecans or two English walnuts, or a pecan and an almond can be joined with pieces of pipe cleaner to represent men. Holes must lie drilled, or punched, in the shells of the nuts with tho pointed tool described above. A hole is required for the neck joints, and holes for the arms and legs. Then pieces of pipe cleaner are inserted and bent to represent these parts of the body. Tufts of cotton are glued to the head nut to represent hair and whiskers. Hats can be made from half a nutshell, or from paper rings to give a finished appearance to these funny looking little fellows. Watercolour paints lint the f ace niid mark the eyes, the nose and the mouth. For caricatures of women, an extra long pecan can be used for a skirt. If you are handy with a needle, tiny skirts of lightweight silk or crepe paper can be fashioned over the model’s pipe-cleaner legs. Birds require two nuts. Joined with pipe cleaners and finished with tufts of cotton or tiny bunches of ostrich feathers. All the models are glued to stand upright on a square of cardboard.

Originality can be used to the fullest extent when making models of this sort. The pictures may give a few suggestions which you will find easy to copy.

As one or more of the caricatures may be more outstanding than the others, some of your guests may take a liking to one model in preference to the one you have selected for them; so the places at the table can be determined by typing humorous verses on cards and duplicated for matching on the cardboard stands for the favours. —From the "Christian Science Monitor."-