Easy Way To Miniature Doll House Food

Miniature dollhouse food can be modeled from a bread paste made of equal amounts of flour and salt with a little water in a slow oven. You can also use Das or clay to make miniature dollhouse food. When modeling food for a miniature dollhouse, it's generally best to pick things which have simple recognizable shapes. For example, a loaf of bread stuck to a bread board is simple and looks natural in any kitchen. A pie is easily made if it modeled in the dish, lining the dish with clay as a real pie dish is lined with pastry and using tiny beads or balls of clay for the fruit filling. Flute the edges of the party lid for the finishing touch.

A string of sausages joined by a cotton thread through the middle, eggs, a chicken or a ham, or a cake are all good choices for miniature dollhouse food. When the piece is dry paint it with poster color and give it a coat of varnish, matt or gloss as you prefer to preserve it.

Packets of foodstuffs such as corn flakes can be made by cutting labels and packet fronts from magazine advertisements and wrapping them around blocks of wood. Look out also for various seeds from garden plants, which look like miniature vegetables. For example, clarkia seed pods look exactly like tiny cucumbers.

Pasta, salt, flour, lentils, rice, and other foodstuffs which will not deteriorate or go sticky can all be used as miniature dollhouse food in the appropriate containers and miniature bottles can be filled with vinegar, cochineal, or paint and water for wine and milk.

The number of dolls' house items which can be contrived from odds-and-ends is limitless. Lids and caps from bottles and pots given a coat of paint make a variety of containers or dishes. A toothpaste cap becomes a flower pot; a small tin lid, a tin tray. Washing detergent bottle caps become flagons; shallow crew caps make dishes or baking tins. Oddments of metal, nails, screws, rivets, washers, cotter pins, etc. can all be used. Washers make rings for kitchen stoves; cotter pins make firedogs for the hearth.

A certain kind of rivet is perfect for a dollhouse poker complete with handle. The secret is to look at all these bits and pieces with a dollhouse maker's eye. What does the shape remind you of? What would it look like painted brass or copper or black?

Key rings often have useful things attached like a tiny teddy bear or a pair of football cleats. Pencil sharpeners are sometimes disguised as globes or cash registers even kitchen stoves. Charm bracelets carry lots of things which would fit very happily into a dollhouse.