Fun shouldn’t be kept bottled up! Well…maybe just this once. Make your own figure to display or play with from a syrup bottle with this craft. It’s sure to be as sweet as you are!

Supplies

• Small plastic syrup bottle with a narrow squeeze fliptop and without a handle, empty
• 1 ½-inch wooden ball with ½-inch hole in bottom
• 16-inch to 18-inch square piece of cloth
• Ribbon or strip of material
• 12 to 14-inch long medium-gauge craft wire
• Gel pens, black, blue, brown, red (Gel pens work well on the wood as the ink doesn’t bleed into the wood and are easy to control)
• Poly fill or needle-felting wool
• Scissors
• Strong glue

Directions

To prepare the bottle

1. Remove labels from syrup bottle
2. Cut the flip top in half, keeping the narrow nozzle part

To make the head

1. Holding the wooden ball with the hole at the bottom, draw a face on the wooden ball with the gel pens
2. Glue a small handful of poly fill or needle-felting wool to the top of the wooden ball for hair. You can make the hair has long, short, or poofy as you wish.

To make the dress

1. Cut a 16-inch diameter circle from the material

To assemble the figure

1. To make the arms, wrap the wire around the neck of the syrup bottle, crossing it in the back and pulling tight
2. Center the material over the opening of the syrup bottle
3. Cut tiny slits in the material at the location of the wire on each side of the bottle, and pull the arms through the material
4. Bend the ends of the wire into a small loop to form hands
5. Screw the cap with the narrow nozzle over the material
6. Tie the ribbon or strip of material around the narrow part of the bottle to make the figure’s waist
7. Place the hole in the wooden ball over the nozzle in the cap and glue into place

Make up your own story with your new figure!

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