It’s not yet summertime in Australia, but it is time for some home spun frivolity.
Watching bemused looks on the girls’ faces when presented with miniature cardboard versions of themselves was great fun. I printed, then cut around and assembled the ‘miniatures’ with a stand like a photo frame.
Isadora was initially delighted and perplexed, stating, ‘What on Earth are those? … They look a bit groovy’.
It was entertaining to see them act the puppeteer with their own likenesses*, with both girls talking in exaggerated voices, and this made for very animated play.
Make your own … 1. Take a photograph top to toe, somewhere standing in even light (meaning, fewer shadows or bright sun across the person is good).
2. Print out the full-figure on A4 paper. 3. Glue the paper to a heavier cardboard first, one that is rigid enough to stand upright once cut out. If you want a colour outline like the example, just mount the figure on colour card after you have cut around the outline. 3. Carefully cut around the colour card, mirroring the existing outline, allow a 5-8mm border. 4. Too make a simple stand for the back cut a piece of cardboard approx. 180mm x 75mm wide and then fold at the 20mm point lengthways, in the example, this side was simply secured to the back with a long strip of tape. The remaining 50mm folds back and acts as a basic stand, you don’t see it from the front. And there you have it, your own mini whoever.
* Each of these ‘characters’ were made with three images combined. Heads were made a bit bigger for effect, and shoes were added from separate photo too, this allowed for more detail and brighter colour, but you can still use a single image to great effect.
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