Supplies
Tools
Materials
Directions
Make the lucky daruma doll base
- Create a round, heavy-bottomed shape by filling a plastic egg with a few stones and covering it in paper-mâché.
- Build up the paper-mâché and incorporate a sunken, flat surface for the face.
- Form a small protruding triangle for the nose.
- Allow the paper-mâché to dry.
Paint the lucky daruma doll
- Paint the sunken face with a flesh color, and the body with red.
- Allow the base paint to dry.
- Paint two larges white eyes onto the face, but do not paint the pupils.
- Create eyebrows, a moustache and beard using black paint.
- Add decorative details with gold, green, white and black paint.
- If you like, paint your name on the doll's chin.
- Paint in one pupil while thinking of your wish or goal. Paint the other one in only when that wish or goal is fulfilled.
Tips
- Instead of a plastic egg for the base of the doll, a small blown-up balloon can be used. Once a rigid, dry paper-mâché case has been formed around the balloon, a small hole is made at the top. Through this hole partly fill the doll with plaster to act as a weight, and then cover the hole with more layers of paper-mâché.
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