Making Dolls from Straw

The straw dolls we have seen in the rice fields are creepy straw dolls because they were deliberately made to frighten rice fields, but the dolls we will make this time are cute straw dolls and smaller in size so that they are not scary. Making dolls from natural materials such as straw is not difficult, before making straw dolls there needs to be a design first. Following is the design of making human figure dolls with straw material:

1. Doll body, doll body that we will make as high as bolfoin. Used drink bottles are very suitable to be used as a twisted human doll body.

2. Neck, neck is part of the boundary between the body of the doll and the head.

3. Head, the shape of the doll's head is usually round or ball shaped. The doll's head that fits the size of the doll this time is a head the size of a ping pong ball.

4. Hands, to make a hand that has a complex structure over the fingers, so it is not too difficult to use a modified straw.

5. Legs, there are several types of dolls that do not include a complete body part in order to function. For example, to make a doll stand up and move the doll there is no need for legs because it can stand alone. In making dolls this time, body parts don't need to be included.

6. Accessories, Accessories referred to in this doll are parts of the doll outside the head, body, hands or feet. Accessories can be exemplified as hats, crowns, hair ornaments, or objects / items relating to the appearance of straw dolls to be made.

7. Construction of a complete doll, all that remains is to stick with natural straw.

Material for making straw dolls:
1. Used bottles

2. Close the used bottle

3. Ping-Pong balls

4. Toy eyes

5. Gravel

6. Dry Straw

7. Coarse choking

Tool for making straw dolls:
1. Scissors

2. Styrofoam Glue

3. Sticks

How to make a straw doll:
1. Prepare the tools and materials to be used.

2. Choose attractive used bottles as the basic framework of the doll's body.

 

3. Fill the used bottle with gravel as a ballast so the doll can stand.

4. Glue the ping-pong ball to the neck of the bottle using glue.

 

Unscrew glue

 

Take glue using a stick

 

Glued

5. Cut the straw according to creativity using scissors.

6. Stick the ready-made skeleton using straw slices.

7. Don't forget that straw dolls are given hands that are made from stems / panicles.
 

8. Create a straw doll with a variety of accessories that can be made from used objects that are stuck with straw as well. For example in the form of headdresses, hair bows, crowns, and so on.

The work of Straw Dolls

The making of this straw doll is quoted from the book: MEMBUAT BONEKA JERAMI