Japanese Tea Party Dolls

Materials:

wood pieces:
  - four two-inch girl doll figures
  - two-inch wood square
  - four 3/8-inch balls
three miniature bowls
two micro daisy beads
two, five-millimeter black beads
20 green seed beads
two gold head pins
Japanese Washi paper - Aitoh Co.
Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paint - flesh tone, black, opaque red, opaque blue, pink parfait, white
Delta Ceramcoat gloss interior spray varnish
Loew-Cornell, Inc. paintbrushes - #2 shader, #10/0 spotter
Delta Quik 'n Tacky white craft glue
paper
pencil
scissors
wire cutters

1. Use a #2 brush to paint the wooden doll figures with flesh tone-colored paint. Choose a hairstyle from Figure 1. Lightly sketch out a hairstyle on the doll with a pencil. Paint black hair with a #2 brush (figures A and B). To make a hair bun, glue a five-millimeter black bead to the top of the doll's head. Let dry.

2. Use the tip of a spotter brush to dot on tiny black eyes. Dot flesh tone-colored highlights on the eyes. For the mouth, paint a tiny red smile or dot. Paint tiny red hair accents with the spotter brush. Very lightly spray the dolls with acrylic spray (figure C).

3. Cut four different kimonos from different patterns of Washi paper, one for each doll (see PDF pattern below figure D). Cut a strip of paper to be the obi sash from a contrasting patterned paper. Apply a light layer of glue to the back of the paper kimono and wrap it around the doll. Fold the obi sash/waistband in half lengthwise and glue it together. Glue the waist band around the midsection of the doll (figure E).

4. To make a table, glue a 3/8-inch wooden ball on each corner of a wooden square. Paint the entire table with black paint and spray it with acrylic spray (figure F).

5. Paint the miniature bowls with blue paint. Paint white dots or tiny squiggle designs on the outside of the bowls. Spray the bowls with acrylic spray (figure G).

6. Paint one micro daisy pink and the other one white. Glue the white daisy inside a bowl and glue the bowl on top of the table. Glue the pink daisy on the tabletop. Glue green seed beads in a bowl and glue the bowl on top of the table. Glue the third bowl on top of the table. For chopsticks, cut two head pins to one inch with wire cutters. Glue the chopsticks on top of one bowl.