{"id":16496,"date":"2018-05-10T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smallhandsbigart.com\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2018-12-27T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T06:04:22","slug":"papier-mache-wiener-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smallhandsbigart.com\/fort-mill\/papier-mache-wiener-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Papier Mache Wiener Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re in Charlotte, NC but I’m not from the South so I don’t think I’ve\u00a0ever said “ya’ll” and actually meant it, but….\u00a0 YA’LL<\/strong>!\u00a0 You have GOT to make a litter of papier mache wiener dogs.\u00a0 Like right now.\u00a0 Finish that last sip of water, and then take that bottle and just get up and get some glue + paper.<\/p>\n My parents recently acquired an obsession with these Sparkling ICE drinks (they’re delicious btw!!) – so we were on the receiving end of about 100 of these perfectly sized elongated bottles.\u00a0 So many that I can just tell you right now you’ll be seeing plenty more of these in the summer!<\/p>\n In the category of Bad Blogging, we failed to get a single photo of the process – sorry!\u00a0 But I’ll describe it as best I can and send you off to see some of our other papier mache tutorials here<\/a>.\u00a0 This fox tutorial<\/a> is probably one of the better ones that aligns with the process we used for these dogs.<\/p>\n To Make the Body:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n To Decorate the Body:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n To form the dog’s head, start by loosely wadding up the newspaper & wrapping it with two layers of foil, covering it completely so it looks like a little potato. \u00a0This is how we start almost all of our sculptures ~ the aluminum foil makes a great sculpting medium! Mold the\u00a0aluminum foil into the desired tapered shape\u00a0for the head. \u00a0We of course looked at photos of real dachshunds!<\/p>\n Pro tip:<\/strong>\u00a0 Encourage kids to keep their wadded up paper wrapped in foil “light & fluffy” – not too dense or scrunchy.\u00a0 It will be hard to get masking tape to stick to foil that is too scrunched.\u00a0 Don’t turn your back on them for a second or they’ll end up with a head about the size and density of a golf ball!<\/p>\n Tape the head securely to the body.\u00a0 Then tape it some more.\u00a0 And a little more.\u00a0 Tape tape tape.<\/p>\n Repeat this process for the tail.<\/p>\n Next we start papier mache-ing.\u00a0 Dip the small pieces of paper in the paste (you can use Mod Podge or watered down school glue as well).\u00a0 Cover then entire thing until you can’t see any of the foil or the bottle.<\/p>\n Let dry overnight.\u00a0 We didn’t love the variation in opacity of the paper we used, so we chose to give them a quick primer coat of white paint.\u00a0 You can decide for yourself whether to do this step or not, depending on how you plan to dress them up.<\/p>\n We envisioned them white with fancy colorful sweaters but if you want a more traditional wiener dog that is brown or spotted, (or purple or orange…) then you’ll be painting them and probably won’t need a primer coat.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nTo decorate the dogs, we worked in phases using three main materials:<\/h3>\n