hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world today I've got an all-natural craft for
you that's great for the summertime we're gonna be turning these corn husks
into these adorable dolls and I'm gonna show you how to make one right now for
this project you will need corn husks a shallow pan filled with warm water 2
millimeter thick jute twine rubber bands scissors and a towel now you should be
able to find these in your grocery store and this is the bag that I was able to
get they they also come in smaller sizes these are about half a pound and out of
one of these you can make about ten dolls now it depends of course on the
packaging of the company so what I did is I took my corn husks out and I place
them in a pan full of water and this is important you need to let them soak in
warm water for about 10 to 15 minutes and they get nice and soft now this is
why you're going to want to use a towel because you are gonna get your surface
area wet you're gonna want four pieces of corn
husk and you want to try to get four that are about the same size so let's
see I've got this one's a little bit bigger if you have smaller ones you can
put those to the outside the bottom and the top because you're going to put four
of these on top of each other so we'll just go one two three
and for now see how that one's shorter so if it's on the outside that's fine
you're also going to need one extra one and this one can be a skinny one so I'm
going to hold on to this one what you want to do is pinch the top and taking
your rubber band rubber band the top now I'm using these smaller rubber bands
just because they go much faster than using giant ones but you can use a giant
one if you want just as long as it's a nice strong rubber band so make sure
that's rubber banded at the top and then what you want to do is flip your
cornhusks inside out so I'm gonna take two on one side two on the other and I'm
just gonna flip this over like that and I'm gonna put this aside for just a
second because I'm gonna make some hair and in this case I'm gonna be using this
red jute the jute comes in different colors if you want or you can just use
natural and I'm gonna wrap this around ten to fifteen times around my hand now
if you want long hair you're going to cut it on one side if you want short
hair you're gonna cut it on both sides what you're gonna do is slip it off with
your fingers pinch it in the center like a figure eight and then you're going to
take another piece of string and you're just going to tie it right in the middle
and you just do a double knot there one and two and so you can see this can make
short hair if you cut it on both sides
and if you wanted to do long hair you would cut it on one side and tie it here
but I'm doing short hair okey-dokey next thing you're gonna do is take a
piece of string about six to eight inches long and slide this in between
the double layers
just like that and tie it off now cut yourself another piece of string again 8
to 10 to 12 inches long gather up the corn husk to make your head and tie off
where the neck should be and you want to tie this nice and tight and just snip
now the piece that I told you that you needed a tiny skinny piece for this is
gonna be for the arms so you're just gonna take this piece and you're just
gonna roll it from one side to the other just like that give it a little twist
just in the middle and make sure it stays and then again open it up so
you've got two on either side slide this up and right underneath where that neck
is then figure out where you want your waist to be and tie it off and this one
and be using some natural jute here
and just tie it off nice and tight
now at this point in time you can tie off the hands just figure out where you
want them to be just tie off one and tie off two
now if you want to you can circle the arms and tie them together at this point
because then you could add a little child if you wanted to but I'm gonna
leave these open for now now here you can see you've kind of got yourself
someone wearing a dress snip off all these extras if you want you can stop
right here and this is how you add your hair
remember that string up at the top just take your hair lay it on top and tie it
in place so right now if you wanted to be person wearing a dress you would be
done but if you want to make it into a person wearing pants and all you have to
do is find the center and split it right down the middle up to that waist and
then tie the legs off just like you did the arms so you give yourself a nice
piece of jute twine here and just tie off one leg
and another leg now as you are playing with these and making more of these I
find them very addictive like once you start making them they're super fun and
you could start making all different kinds of things like different sized
ones let me show you just cut that a little bit off so you can make different
sized ones like little ones you can even make little tiny tiny tiny itty bitty
ones and like I said you can make the arms you can tie them together so that
they have rounded arms you can give them long hair you can give them short hair
if you want to one of the things that I like to do is do a crisscross pattern
I'll show you how to do the crisscross pattern that's fun so you take your
string and you would tie it around the waist and then you just crisscross to
get almost like little overalls which of course being a person who likes overalls
I'm all about but as you can see you can do lots of fun stuff with your dolls and
that's it for making your very own corn husk doll and remember the more you
practice with this the more you can make and you can make a whole entire family
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