Please welcome today's guest blogger, Abbey of
Aesthetic Outburst! She chose This is London by
Miroslav Sasek for her favorite children's book and made
the cutest Queen's Guard peg dolls to go with it!
Queen’s Guard Project
Materials:
wooden clothespins
black acrylic paint
red acrylic paint
pink puff paint
gold puff paint
paintbrush
black pom poms
tacky glue
Steps:
1. Use your red paint to paint a shirt on the upper
half of the clothespin.
2. Use your black paint to paint pants on the
bottom half of the clothespin.
3. Using your gold puff paint, make small dots
on the shirt. Voilá! Buttons.
4. Once the shirt and pants are dry, use the
white paint to paint a belt around the center
of the clothespin.
5. Paint a thin red line down each “leg” to make
pinstripes (make sure the black paint is dry).
6. Use the pink puff paint to make cheeks and the black
puff paint to make small dots for eyes.
7. Put a dollop of tacky glue on the head
of the clothespin.
8. Center the black pom pom on the glue and push down.
9. Allow your guard to dry.
Artist and blogger, Abbey Hendrickson, is the voice
behind Aesthetic Outburst. She lives in a little house just
outside of Owego, New York with her husband, their two
babies, and a fish called Blowhole.
Thank you, Abbey! To see the rest of the books and
crafts in this series click the button below!