Barbie Doll / Miniature Accessories

Well, it finally has coooled down some so we are stifling here. The dolls have been thinking and here are a few ideas they have come up with.

Mini Trees

• Cut a piece of new growth that has "mini limbs" on it from a tree or bush. Be sure when you cut it the "trunk" has enough length. Paint the "tree limbs" with glue then add the foliage whether you use parsley leaves or a crafting product called "Foliage" made by Woodland Scenes. For variety you can use more than one color of "leaves".

Dinner Plates

• You need large buttons with a "lip" around the outside. If there are holes in the button, use wood filler to fill in and then paint your plates the desired color. For design you can add fingernail decal sticker in the center of the "plate"

Mini Scrapbook

• Take pictures of your dolls (digital is easiest to work with). Print the pictures as thumbnail pictures or index pictures. Crop the pictures to the size you like. Cut a cereal box or card stock into the appropriate size for an accordian stand up scrapbook. Using adhesive, place the pictures however you like. For accents, use fingernail decal stickers, confetti or press your own tiny flowers to be adhered.
• For pressing flowers. Place each flower or group of flowers spaced out on a napkin/tissue. Cover with another napkin/tissue. If you want to press a bunch of flowers, just keep layering as desired. Set a heavy object on top and leave for about a week. At the end of the week, your flowers should be ready to be placed in your scrapbook.

Campfire

• Using small pebbles, make a fire ring. Then cut s twig into doll sized logs and build up the campfire. If you want to keep it in one piece to easily move around, just glue the pieces together using a glue gun and then glue a piece of cardboard to the bottom. To camoflage the bottom of the fire pit, spread Elmer's glue on the cardboard and sprinkle sand on it. Once dry, add your fire logs and glue as you build the fire. For special effects: leave a hole in the very center and a space in the center of the logs to insert a tiny light that can be turned on and off. This will give the effect of a "lit" fire.

Cattails

• Using green silk flower wire or a piece of a silf flower stem, put a glob of glue on the end and role in coffee grounds.

Lily Pads

• Cut shape freehand from silk flower petals.

Log Cabin

• Build it using Lincoln Logs. Just glue with a glue gun as you build. It's the perfect scale for Barbie.

Check back soon to see what other ideas come up - if you have any of your own, please post a comment!