after 6 months of every-night talks and sleeping under Ela's pillow we can now honestly confirm they are totally safe and taking big part of worries away :)
Last week Ela and I went to Library to get some new books to take home.
There was one we really liked and inspired me to a new project.
Worry dolls...
I hear about the dolls long time ago.
If you didn't then read some more about it here Worry dolls ;)Then I found out the inspiration of "Silly Billy" book is nothing new in the on-line crafting world :)
I desperately wanted to make some worry dolls for Ela but in this case I needed to came up with something new.
I have seen dolls made of clothes pins, pegs, chopsticks, toilet paper tubes, toothpicks...
I looked around and
BINGO!
Old used alkaline batteries will now find a better use :)
Lets have a look how it goes then!
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Colourful materials were waiting for Ela when came back from school :)
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Measuring and cutting felt pieces to cover the batteries.
I choose few colours to imitate different shades of the human skin.
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The hands were made of straighten paper clips.I guess working with wire would be easier but I just didn't have any.
All the parts ready to be glued with hot glue gun.
This step leave it for yourself, is a bit fiddly...but very rewarding after when is done ;)
Then trimming of the felt, wires and toothpicks so they're not too sharp.
Ready for the fun bit - dressing up!
This little lady is a prototype so she observed the whole transformation of the others ;)
Ela was choosing materials and matching the colours,drawing faces and shoes, working with thread.
I helped her by using a hot glue to attached the fabrics, thread, beads etc.
I asked why so sad, "She worries a lot mommy"...Of course :)
Happy with the first results, lets keep going.
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Now this is the bunch we created!
We needed some kind of home to keep them safe by the Ela's bed.
At first I attempt to use one of the oversized match boxes but the dolls didn't fit as the amount of clothing and hair make them larger :)
So we used a coffee jar again, and decorated.
They were ready to go into the jar.
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Now lets see if that's working and Ela stop worrying, having nightmares and brings us a peaceful nights :)
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Don't worry
be happy!
*Caution:
This craft idea is not suitable for children under 5.
Small children could bite the batteries.
Alkaline batteries are safer then non-alkaline however read the information here https://practicegreenhealth.org/pubs/alkbatfs.pdf if you worry about toxicity.
You can also use some wine/champagne corks instead in exact same way we did it with the batteries ;)
Nice;)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Katarzyna :)
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