Popcorn the Paper Jester

That's Clever! : Episode HCLVR-154 -- More Projects »
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Project by Sandra Evertson from Austin, Texas.
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In addition to cute wooden creations Sandra Evertson has a love for paper as well. "Popcorn The Paper Jester" is a standing paper clown type fellow with an antique document cardstock cone for legs and an accordion folded paper torso and arms. It has a wooden ball head with an antique litho face and an old newsprint jester hat with wool pompoms attached.

Materials:

1-1/2" wooden ball
card stock
taupe acrylic paint
paintbrushes
decorative edge scissors
crepe paper
gel medium
needle and thread
glue gun and hot glue
pliers
2 pompoms
wire cutters
awl
various old papers
white glue
photocopy of an antique document
face image
coat hanger (or similar gauge wire)
2 colors of construction paper
strong coffee

Step:

1. Make a small hole in the wooden ball with an awl. This will be the head of the piece.

2. Paint the wooden ball taupe, set aside to dry.

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Figure A
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Figure B
3. Decoupage a photocopy of an antique document to card stock using gel medium. Let dry. Cut into a cone shape and use decorative scissors along the curved bottom edge of the cone to embellish (figure A). Hot glue the cone together to be used as the Jester’s skirt (figure B).

4. Decoupage antique hand images to card stock. Let dry. Cut out the hands and set aside.

5. Cut out the Jester’s hat from old newspaper print.

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Figure C
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Figure D
6. Run a thin bead of glue along the edge of the hat, leaving the bottom edge open. This will allow the hat to open. Glue it to card stock. Let dry. Glue pompoms to the ends of the hat (figure C).

7. Cut out a round face from antique paper. Cut small slits all the way around it. Glue it to the painted wood ball (figure D). Set aside.

Also in this Episode
That's Clever! : Episode HCLVR-154
•Handpainted "Fanciful" CD Case
•"Suzette Egglette" Jewelry Box
•Ceramic Bunny Bowl
•Popcorn the Paper Jester