Culla in pasta di mais o pasta di zucchero - a lovely cradle for a Teddy bear

Today we prepare a lovely cradle for a teddy bear. prepare a certain amount of colored dough, blue or pink With a rolling pin roll out the dough to a thickness of about 4 - 5 mm the cradle is heart shaped so we have to get a cookie cutter of this shape The size of the cutter will depend on the final size of the cradle Since we'll need two heart forms it will be useful to calculate the amount of dough to lay out once this is done cut the two hearts needed to assemble the cradle after removing the hearts from the dough make a cut at the base of the heart using a smooth-bladed knife or blade the cut must be enough to allow the cradle to stand but at the same time should not be too deep with a knife ​stretch the ends of the hearts and now allow the two hearts to dry because we can use them only when they are ready for our cradle remember that the dough, once dried will look slightly darker than the still damp dough with the same dough, pink or blue roll out another sheet of dough of about 4-5 millimeters from which you cut out a rectangle for the mattress of the cradle even in this case the size depends on the size of the cradle we are preparing here we have a length of approximately 7 cm to cut more precisely the rectangle we can use a ruler the mattress will be allowed to dry, too after the parts are ready and dry arrange a stand in order to hold up the parts to put together until they are fixed and dry in this case I took a piece of polystyrene but you can as well use a small box or something else this stand must be neither too high nor too low to better stick the parts, prepare a small roll of dough apply it at the back of the mattress and arrange it just against the headboard set the mattress and one of the heart over the stand we have prepared in case you can use vinyl glue given that this glue will be transparent when dry anyhow it will be hidden by the quilt or the pillow do the same on the other side of the bed and arrange everything on the stand you have prepared allow to dry completely, in order to fix everythig allow to dry completely, in order to fix everythig once the cradle is dry we can begin to prepare the blanket take some white dough and roll it out with a rolling pin cut out a rectangle with the right size the blanket will be a bit wider than the cradle because it will have to fall to the sides check that it is big enough our intention is to make a patchwork blanket with a smooth blade knife draw some squares that we will paint afterwards now we put the teddy bear in the cradle put a little piece of dough under the blanket so it looks like the body of the bear prepare now a small pillow on which the bear will rest his head let's make a small cylinder pinch the corners and engrave with a toothpick arrange also the place for the bear's head using the brown dough prepare a ball that will become the bear's head verify that the size is suited to the bed with the inevitable toothpick mark the eyes approximately at the center of the head unlike the face of dolls in which the eyes are placed lower do not go too deep, other wise the eyes will not look nice with some slightly paler dough prepare a small disc that will form the front face always with a toothpick mark the mouth at last, with a small piece of darker dough make a small ball for the nose now for the ears use two equal balls and apply them to the sides of the head with the help of a toothpick now we just have to put the teddy bear to sleep to reproduce the patchwork use watercolors with light colors to your taste if desired we can also make little drawings and flowers on the blanket with contrasting colors or acrylic white with a fine brush paint the eyes and possibly reinforce the color of the nose the same cradle can be created in sugarpaste for the cake of a birth or a baptism salt dough or other material but allowing various pieces dry beforeassembling