{"id":3306,"date":"2017-12-28T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2017-12-28T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:15:13","slug":"tiny-paper-mache-crown-bunny-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/tiny-paper-mache-crown-bunny-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny hand-made crown for my bunny rabbit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made this tiny crown for my old blind bunny rabbit, Acide, for this 13th birthday! It was a quick last-minute project and I didn&#8217;t take any pics of my steps, but it was really easy; I&#8217;ll explain how I made the thing&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/acide-crown.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/acide-crown.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny paper mache crown - Acide wearing the finished crown\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I designed the basic shape for the crown on paper and then traced that onto craft foam and cut it out. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>I closed the loop of craft foam with a piece of masking tape, and then I covered most of the whole crown shape with little strips of masking tape; this made the whole shape a lot sturdier.<\/p>\n<p>I then covered the crown with one layer of <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/my-paper-mache-method\/\">paper mach\u00e9<\/a>, using tiny pieces of shipping paper, aka blank newspaper. I let that dry for a few hours. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paper-mache-crown-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paper-mache-crown-01.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny paper mache crown - work in progress\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The little circles around the crown are regular ol&#8217; thumbtacks. The pointy part of the thumbtacks were (obviously) way too long; they poked all the way through the sides. So I snipped off most of the pointy parts with pliers. I also scratched up the back surface of the thumbtacks with an awl in order to help them stick to hot glue better; the smooth metal surface doesn&#8217;t really want to stick to glue very well on its own, but when it&#8217;s scratched up, the grooves give the glue better shapes to fill and hold onto. Anyway, I used a hot glue gun to dab a small dot of glue over each hole that I&#8217;d poked on the crown, and then I pressed the thumbtacks in place. They held on just fine. <\/p>\n<p>I then spray painted the crown with shiny gold spray paint. And this lil&#8217; project was done! Acide seemed to like it! 13 is absolutely <em>ancient<\/em> for a bunny rabbit, so he might not look terribly excited in the above pic, but I assure you he was happy wearing his crown; if anything he seemed to wanna know what took us so long to get him one. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paper-mache-crown-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paper-mache-crown-02.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny paper mache crown - spray painted gold\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this tiny crown for my old blind bunny rabbit, Acide, for this 13th birthday! It was a quick last-minute project and I didn&#8217;t take any pics of my steps, but it was really easy; I&#8217;ll explain how I made the thing&#8230; I designed the basic shape for the crown on paper and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233,291,20,293,3,292],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accessories","tag-crown","tag-diy","tag-miniature","tag-paper-mache","tag-rabbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}