Colourful Peg People

Posted 2013-08-27 by Jane Street ⇒ follow

Budding fashion designers can go wild creating these fun peg people dolls out of wooden clothes pins and colourful nail varnish. Create your own outfits and hairstyles. You can use the final creations as dollies, play with them in the garden (they will stand up well in a flowerbed), brighten up a flower pot for Mothers Day - or just use as a colourful clothes pegs!

Time: 5 minutes plus drying time per doll
Age: Any age
Level: Medium

Materials

Wooden clothes pins (ours cost $2 for a bag of 10)

Selection of colourful nail varnish

Masking tape (optional)

Fine felt tip pen/ sharpie

Method

Pick up a selection of colourful nail varnish. You can usually find very low cost bottles at discount stores or on special offers at the pharmacy. You could also use regular paint. However the nail varnish works well as the colours are vibrant, there's no need for a separate layer of gloss and there is minimal tidying up as the brushes just screw back into the bottles.

Use masking tape to mark off shorts or trouser lines. It then doesn't matter if you paint over the tape as when you peel it off you will have a nice straight line.

Use masking tape to help get a neat line

Peeling off the masking tape

Paint outfits on the peg dolls using the nail varnish.

Pop the peg over the side of a thin walled container whilst it dries.

Peg drying

Paint on hair with nail varnish.

Help young children with the hair by holding a finger over the face section to avoid getting any coloured varnish by mistake on the face area. You could also stick on a circular sticker when painting the hair to keep the face area 'clean'.

Draw a face using a fine tip pen. You can then vanish over the face using a clear nail varnish to seal it.