Saturday, April 3, 2010

Mad Hatter Tea Party - Toad Stool

This crazy project came about after a suggestion from Amy at Momma Bee Partyz, "why don't you make a toad stool for the party?" I said "mmmm, that would be cool!" Later that night.... I couldn't sleep. I actually got out of bed to search the house for toad stool building materials! This was a three evening project. When the boys went to bed I began building....

My building materials... an old desk chair that had been sitting out in the garage.....

and a baby bath chair, destined for the thrift store. It was very important to me that I had a sturdy structure. My ultimate goal was to have children sit on the toad stool for photo ops.
I began crumpling newspaper...
Taping on newspaper balls to create shape and support.
I mountain/valley folded paper to create a fan shape that I could use as the 'gills' of the mushroom.
  I used a total of 6 cups of flour, mixed with water for this entire project. The flower and water created a paper mache paste which I used to adhere strips of paper to my structure.


The mushroom 'cap' has 4 layers of paper, the 'stem' 3.
Painting the underside.
Painting of the whole Toad Stool.
The top of the mushroom.
Photo op!
Cool eh?  Thanks for stopping by!

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9 peeps sharing the love:

Setting the Mood said...

Absolutely "WONDER"ful!! Great job!

paperscissors said...

so "toad"illy amazing!

MommaBee said...

you did an amazing job with it! i LOVE it!

Kustom Kreations by Elisha Akram said...

What a Great job!

DanMonsterMan said...

Great mushroom! Very clever to put a stool underneath. Beautiful work!

heather said...

that is amazing that you can make something like this.. i consider myself creative but nothing like this.. or even close to this... cant wait to see more for this party...

by the way i was wondering where you got your peal and stick wall dr seuss people???

A To Zebra Celebrations said...

WOW!! So creative :)

Christine @ Pure Joy Events said...

Congrats on getting honorable mention in our Party Tutorial Contest (http://www.purejoyeventsblog.com/2011/04/party-tutorial-contest-winners.html).

Shannon said...

That is the cutest thing ever! You go all the way with creating a party theme. Amazing!

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