More and more children want toys from real life: clothes in the latest fashion, dolls with a human face, analogues of real furniture, dishes, vehicles. These items help the child reproduce adult behavior: hospitality, tea drinking, housework. And you don’t need to buy anything, you can do everything yourself on a professional level. Today we’ll look at how to make food for the doll.
What can you make “puppet” food from?
Conditionally, it is possible to divide puppet food into “disposable” and “reusable”. The first options are suitable:
- imaginary dishes: leaves, paper, plants, pebbles and other objects, vaguely reminiscent of culinary delights;
- products: cereals, pasta, noodles, sprinkles used in games once;
- plasticine food, which can also be lost or deformed.
“Reusable” dishes are made of durable material that does not deform over time. Such food is baked from salt dough, polymer clay, mastic, molded from a specially hardening mass for modeling, created from threads, beads.
How to make food for dolls without special skills? Pay attention to sewing accessories, where you can find buttons of various shapes. Just saw off the “loop” and get a ready-made set of fruits and vegetables. Or draw on the cardboard the shape of the product and glue it with suitable beads in color.
How to make food for the doll at the lowest cost
The most economical way is to cook salted dough dishes. This will require salt, flour, water, as well as tools for modeling, paints, varnish and sometimes glue with fittings. What is the advantage of the test?
- You can mold a variety of dishes: flour products, sweets, fruits, vegetables, meat, cereals, fish.
- The child will be happy to take part in the creation of culinary delights. And raw dough without impurities will not harm if the baby takes it in his mouth.
- The dough allows you to cut out any shapes and lines, and paints only add brightness.
The process of cooking food from the dough is simple. Make dishes, place them on a baking sheet and dry in the oven or microwave. Then they need to be painted and varnished. In some cases, beads, sequins and decorative little things are glued for jewelry.
Food can be created whole or chopped into pieces. In the latter case, the product must be placed in the refrigerator and gently cut into frozen portions, and only then dried in the oven.
Knitted food for dolls
With your own hands, you can make food differently if you do not want to spend time kneading, baking and drying the dough. Pick up the threads and the hook! Knitted dishes are suitable for large dolls and theatrical games with other children. In addition, they can be washed with contamination and reintroduced into the game.
How to make food for a doll using threads? You take real products for the image, then pick up yarn and “copy” the shape of a fruit or dish with a hook. For example, how to tie fried eggs:
- start work with two yellow circles;
- Fill with padding polyester and sew them;
- from the obtained yolk, knit out the protein.
Or we start to knit ice cream from the bottom of the glass, then by reducing and adding loops we create a “waffle” and “ice cream” wavy shape. The last step is to fill the product with padding polyester and close the last rows.
According to the same plan, you can tie fruits, vegetables, pastries, cakes, sausages, chicken, chop. The advantage of large knitted products is that small children will not swallow them or get hurt.
The harm and benefits of "doll" food for children
Wishing the children good, parents create gorgeous miniature culinary masterpieces. However, such meals can be harmful to young children. How? Paints and varnishes add luster and brightness to products and cause an irresistible urge to eat them. Kids do not realize the danger of small parts and swallow them, as a result of which the help of a doctor is required.
Therefore, for babies it is better to create large products with a developing bias. How to make food for dolls for kids? For example, tie pea pods with peas of different sizes. As a result, the child learns to unfasten and fasten the pod, separate the peas with Velcro, learn color, size, and count with them.
Big children need small, real products that help them get used to playing roles. Especially actively they are used by psychologists in educational institutions in the analysis of family conflicts. Therefore, for kids create all kinds of educational dishes, and together with older children create miniature culinary masterpieces!