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Cute lipgloss

homemade, for Mum
Painting, Present, Clay, Mother's Day, and Claying
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What do you need?
transparant boxes (Etos)
Das clay
acrylic paint & brush
4 tbspoons olive, coconut or sunflower oil
2 tbspoons bees wax chips (De Tuinen)
an (old) lipstick
a food flavour, like almond vanilla or peppermint
 

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We start together on a Mother's Day gift, Puk and I, we make a cute cat filled with lip gloss. A practical and fun gift, especially for the mother of Puk who loves cats and make up. You can also make any other animal or a little doll, whatever you can come up with!

How to make a Lip gloss Cat

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Start with kneading the clay, when it is soft roll it into a ball. Press the underside of tje box into the clay. Here's were Puk gets an idea of his own, he just remembers his Mum likes dinosaurs better (!). I go on with the cat.

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Rub the clay around the jar upwards.

Stay under the screw top.

Trim the edge on top.

The underside is ready now, start on the top.

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Roll another ball, press it on top og the lid and rub the clay downward. Rool the lid on it's side so the top wil become conic. Model 2 triangle ears and a cat's tail, press onto the head. Try if the screwtop works otherwise trim the clay till it does.

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Puk feels sad, the dino does not look like he should, so we form a partnership. I will make the head and body, he makes the scales and the legs. Puk is very happy, he thinks his Mum will be very pleased. But now comes the really hard part, waiting for the clay to dry!

Hurray! The clay is dry, we can start painting

  • before you start you may want to sand the dry clay smooth, using fine sandpaper
  • we prefer the handmade look, so we don't
  • first apply a base coat then let the paint dry, but we cannot explain this concept to Puk, he is painting happily away
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Paint the cat on all sides then let it dry again.

Paint a face on the cat, make pink cheeks.

Cat and Dino are ready, let's make the lip gloss.

Please mind! The lip gloss is made in the microwave, this should be done by an adult, in case of older kids under supervision of

Set the microwave to medium heat (450 watt) and let the wax melt.

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Put oil and beeswax in a jug, melt the wax.

Pour into cups, stir in colour & taste.

Quickly dissolve the lipstick by stirring.

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Pour the lip gloss into the jar, let it set.

So pretty! The lip gloss has set in 5-10 mins.

Now we are going to wrap our presents for mum really pretty :)) Happy Mother's day!