Tuesday Tutorial – Ballerina/Prince Clay Pot

Thanks to a few email requests, including Natalie at Little Shindigs (who featured them on her blog, thanks for the shout-out!), I’m posting the info to making the ballerina/prince clay pots I posted about on Saturday.

What’s great about them is you can tweak the skin and hair color, robe color, and even make her a purple ballerina if you wanted, you just have to match up all your materials.

For ballerina
2″ clay pot
1 3/4″ wooden doll head (flat bottomed or round is fine)
Folk Art acrylic paint in ballet pink and ivory (or any color of pink that matches your boa)
1″ black pom-pom
black acrylic paint
pink craft boa (I found mine at Michael’s, and you’ll need about 9″ of boa per ballerina)
coordinating sequins (mine came out of a big bulk bag from Joann’s, and they are about a 1/2″ in diameter)
black and red Sharpie permanent marker
hot glue-gun and glue sticks

1. Paint clay pot with pink acrylic paint and doll head with ivory paint, let dry.
2. Hot glue the doll head to the bottom of the clay pot.
3. With the black and red marker, draw on her face; then take the black marker and draw on her hairline around the entire head.
4. Paint in her hair with the black paint and let dry.
5. Hot-glue on the black pom-pom for her bun, and add her hair and dress sequins.
6. DON’T pre-cut the craft boa for her tu-tu. Just start hot-gluing from the original roll. Hot-glue the boa on in sections, it will cool too fast if you put the hot glue on the pot first.Carefully wrap, hot-glue, wrap, then trim at the end. Put a tiny drop of hot-glue on the end of the boa where you cut it, then glue that on (so the boa doesn’t unravel).

For prince
2″ clay pot
1 3/4″ wooden doll head (flat bottomed or round is fine)
Folk Art acrylic paint in ivory
black acrylic paint
orange sequin (mine came out of a big bulk bag from Joann’s, and they are about a 1/2″ in diameter)
black Sharpie permanent marker
hot glue-gun and glue sticks
red felt cut into a 3″ by 7″ strip
gold glitter glue

1. Paint clay pot with black acrylic paint and doll head with ivory paint, let dry.
2. Hot glue the doll head to the bottom of the clay pot.
3. With the black marker, draw on his face; then take the black marker and draw on his hairline around the entire head.
4. Paint in his hair with the black paint and let dry.
5. Wrap him in the red felt, play around with how you want to place it, then hot-glue the top corner of the robe to his body, then overlap and hot glue the second corner. Be careful, the hot-glue seeps through the felt a little, so hot-glue on his button to cover that.
6. Outline his robe in the glitter glue. DON’T try to outline it when you first cut the robe. I tried that, and when I went to wrap the robe, the glue didn’t flex and it cracked. It may be the type of glue, it was dollar store stuff, so I don’t know. 🙂