Sometimes you get materials and you think: What am I going to do with them? Ineke van der Linden received white bottles with a cap. A great idea later for the winter for a snowman, for example. But of course, now is not the time for that.Below you can read more about how Ineke started working on this bottle and the idea that came up with.

Ineke explains: The next thought was to use the bottle as a template for a doll/animal body for clay. That way you don't have to use so much clay I still had some ice cream spoons I could use them as arms and feet, I thought. Very easy. Make a notch with scissors and insert the ice cream spoons all the way in, so that the stalks are no longer visible.

I started with the idea of clay a doll but I found the ice cream spoon arms a bit too rough in relation to the rest. So I left the ice cream spoon away arms As I said; started with a doll. Didn't have a Creall Do & Dry light at home.(lightweight clay) Then such a bottle is handy in half. You don't need a lot of clay and it won't be a heavy workpiece.

The head is made of a wad of aluminum foil. For the same reason as the bottle. You need less clay. You pick up a piece of clay. You roll that down. Greater than the circumference of the head. You put it over a cake, just like fondant. You gently and evenly clay over the prop and attach the head to the bottle at the same time as the plaque.

From 2 small pieces you can make ears. You fold it in slightly. With a little bit of water, you can “glue” the earphones to the head.

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