Craft Time: Mickey's Pumpkin Patch
What you'll need
- 2 mixing bowls
- 1 cup flour, plus a little extra
- 1 cup salt
- Half a cup of water
- Wooden spoon
- Disposable kitchen gloves
- Food coloring (orange and black)
- Toothpicks
- 2 baking sheets
- Fine-tipped black marker
- Black acrylic paint and small paintbrush
How to make it
- In a
mixing bowl, stir together 1 cup of the flour, the salt, and the water
until the ingredients hold together. Wearing a pair of disposable
kitchen gloves, knead the dough until it is fairly smooth.
- Place a
quarter or so of the dough into another bowl and knead black food
coloring into it. Knead orange food coloring into the remaining three
quarters of the dough.
- Heat the oven to 230 degrees F.
- Meanwhile, your child can use the orange dough to form 4 or 5 small pumpkins. Encourage him to vary the sizes and shapes.
- Use
the tip of a toothpick to poke a pair of holes (about a half-inch deep)
in the top of each pumpkin where the ears will go. Then use the side of
the toothpick to gently press vertical pumpkin grooves into the dough,
as shown. Place the finished pumpkins on one of the baking sheets.
- Next,
make a pair of Mickey ears for each pumpkin by inserting toothpicks
into small balls of black dough. Gently pinch the dough to make it stick
well to the toothpicks. Then flatten and shape the balls to resemble
mouse ears. Place the ears on the second baking sheet.
- Bake the
dough shapes for about 30 minutes, removing them before they begin to
turn brown. The ears should take a little less time than the pumpkins.
- Allow the baked dough pieces to cool thoroughly.
- Use
a black marker to outline a Mickey head on each pumpkin. (Tip: the
front resembles the upper portion of a heart.) Now your child can fill
in the outlines with black paint.
- Once
the paint is dry, add ears to each pumpkin. If the toothpicks are too
long, simply break off a piece to shorten them. They should hold firmly
in place but, if they seem a bit loose, use drops of glue to secure
them.
Source:
http://spoonful.com/crafts/mickeys-pumpkin-patch
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