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Category: General Crafts

The Mouse and Cheese

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Things you need:
Paper Mache Favor Cake Slice Box
1 – Unfinished Wooden Pear
1 – Gray Felt Square
2 – 5mm Googly Eyes
1 – 1/2″ Unfinished Standard Wooden Heart
1 – 1/2″ Black Craft Pom Poms
Pineapple Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Barn Red Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Black Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Pewter Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Toffee Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint

Things to do:
1. Mouse- Take the unfinished wooden pear and paint with the Pewter acrylic paint, along with the wooden 1/2″ heart. Let dry. The gray felt will be used for the tail and ears of the mouse. Cut the tail to be 5″ long and the ears will be round, about 1-1/2″ long. Glue the tail on the bottom of the pear. Glue ears onto the neck of the pear. Take a pair of the googly eyes and one black pom pom, glue the pom pom on the top of the pear and the eyes above the black pom pom. Take the wooden heart that was painted gray and glue to the bottom of the pear at the skinner part. Gluing the heart on the bottom will help stabilize the mouse. Glue the top and bottom of box together.
2. Cheese – To start off, grab one of the paper mache favor cake slice box and paint with the pineapple paint. Let dry. On the back side of the box will be paint with the barn red paint. Take the toffee apple barrel paint and draw circle all over and fill in the circles a bit, this will create the shadow for the “holes of the cheese”.

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Spot the Styrofoam Dog

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Things you need:
White Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Black Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
Brown Oxide Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint
4-3/4″ Styrofoam Egg
3″ Styrofoam Egg
6″ Round Styrofoam Disc
Dowel Rods
1/2″ Brown Craft Pom Poms
1 – Cocoa Brown Felt Square
1 – Red Felt Square
1 – Light Blue Felt Square
Unfinished Wood Plugs

Things to do:
1. Cut 4 legs out of the foam disc. Then paint the legs and the 2 styrofoam eggs with the brown oxide apple barrel paint. Let them dry.
2. Using the coca brown felt square and cut the 2 ears out and use the left over to make a tail by cutting a 4″x1″ strip and fold in half. Cut slits along the felt.
3. Take the white apple barrel paint and put white spots on dog’s body where ever you would like. Paint on the mouth using the black apple barrel paint.
4. Glue on the Eyes, tail and the brown pom pom for the nose. Cut a little tongue out of the red felt and glue on the side of the mouth. Pain dots on both of the eyes with the white paint.
5. Taking the dowel rods and cut four of them 2″ long. The dowel rods will be used to stick into the legs and into the body of the dog to connect them. Glue to secure the legs. Take another 2″ dowel rod to stick into the head and connect to the body of dog.
6. To finish it off, choose a color felt of you choice to tie around the dog’s neck.

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