VIDEO RECIPES OF THE MOST MINIATURE FOOD

Modeling from plasticine is one of the most popular types of children's creativity. It promotes the physical development of the child - improves fine motor skills and sensory sensitivity of the fingers, helps develop imagination. In addition, with the help of plasticine you can independently create some objects for the game - flowers, animals, jewelry, shoes, etc. Kids can spend more than one hour doing this exciting activity. They especially love to create food for dolls from plasticine together with their parents.

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From this material you can make sets of any complexity, cutlery, pies, pancakes, buns and other food, breakfast, lunch and dinner for the doll. Every day the doll's diet can be varied; it is limited only by the imagination of the girl and her parents.

Sculpting is quite a fun activity. Both adults and children can handle creating doll food. In order to mold beautiful objects, you need to have plasticine and a knife on hand, as well as plastic plates that the child already has. If there are no such plates, you can use the same flexible material. There are many master classes on the Internet on creating crafts and doll food from plasticine, video and photographic materials.

Advantages and disadvantages of plasticine

Before you sculpt food for dolls, you need to make sure that the material is suitable. The advantages of sculpting are ease of use, bright colors, beautiful results and a variety of objects that can be sculpted. Disadvantages include the flexibility of the material and its disposability.

Plasticine crumbles if it dries, therefore, when choosing this material to create toy food, you need to prepare small containers or containers in advance in which you need to put it away immediately after playing.

An alternative option for creating food for toys is polymer clay. This material will last longer; crafts made from it can be baked in the oven, resulting in solid objects. They do not crumble even with great impact on the material. However, plasticine is a material that can be modified during play, using the same piece several times. With polymer clay it’s the other way around – you won’t be able to change an already baked figure.

However, the choice of material will not change the joy of the game. Little children love to sculpt figures from plasticine. And if they are also useful in their favorite game, then the child’s joy and happiness will know no bounds.

Miniature vegetables

Sweet carrot

In order for Monster High to have food made from polymer clay in the kitchen, you need the clay itself (orange and green), stacks and scissors.
Let's first roll the orange plastic into a ball, and then make a cone out of it. This is the future carrot for the doll.
We will roll the same cone, but smaller, from green plastic.
We cut the future tops into four leaves and straighten them in a stack.
We press a shallow dent in the end of the orange cone and insert the tops there.
To make the carrot look natural, you need to make shallow lines.
Well, the carrot is ready - the most useful vegetable for Monster High.

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Corn

A slightly different technique is used to make an ear of corn. We form the core from green clay. You can use improvised material. We roll a long rope out of yellow plastic and wind it onto the core in a tight spiral. Draw longitudinal stripes in a stack. Cut out thin green leaves and wrap them around the cob.

Food for dolls can be very varied. You can treat Monster High to cakes, pastries and multi-layer sandwiches. But, in order to maintain such a thin waist as hers, it is still better and healthier to eat vegetables and fruits.

Culinary miniature “Roast with vegetables”

Operating procedure:

We cut out two circles with a diameter of 4.5 and 5.5 cm and a thickness of 2 mm from a white layer of clay. Place the larger circle on top of the smaller one, press in the middle part, forming the middle of the plate.
Making cucumbers. We take 4 pieces of clay the size of hazelnuts of different colors and roll them out into layers 1 mm thick: light green is the core, greenish and white is the cucumber pulp around the core, dark green is the skin.
We make a light green sausage (length - 2.5 cm), wrap it with the remaining three layers in the sequence as shown in the diagram. We crush the future cucumber so that when cut it is not round, but oval. Place it in plastic for 10 minutes in the refrigerator. Next, we form the tail of the cucumber. Cut 4 circles and place everything together on a plate.
On the other side of the dish we place an onion made from 3 thin sausages and a small onion made of white plastic. We create mashed potatoes from a mixture of yellow and white clay. We form indentations on its surface, sprinkle with “fried onions” (scraps of a mixture of orange, green and brown plastic).
Cut carrots from the orange sausage into strips and throw them in a heap on the plate. We make the roast from caramel-colored clay and glue a dark brown strip on top. The shape of the roast can be taken in any shape, in large or small pieces. Bake the dish in the oven, then varnish the vegetables and the rim of the plate.

Pie

In order to make a delicious pie, you need to find several pieces of beige, white and purple (red) plasticine. Beige plasticine can be obtained by mixing orange and white.

By following simple instructions, you can make unique food for Barbie, Monster High, etc. dolls:

Turn the beige ball into a cake. Roll it out so that the thickness of the “pancake” is approximately 3-4 mm.
Carefully lift the edges of the cake to form the edges of the pie.
Roll a lot of small purple (red) balls, imitating berries. Fill the beige “basket” with berries.
Form long sausages from beige plasticine. Place the sausages on top of the pie to form a lattice. You can play with the sausages and form braids of two or three rows.
Decorate the pie with white meringues - slightly flattened white balls.

Such toy food is perfect for dolls having a tea party or for a story game - when, for example, Barbie or the Monster High doll decided to bake a pie for her friends. And the game will be especially interesting if you combine two cases with each other.

Bread and sandwiches in miniature

Fresh loaf

Take a piece of bread-colored polymer clay and roll it into a ball and then into a sausage. Press the stack of strips. A loaf, carrot or banana is food for dolls that is not at all difficult to make. It is somewhat more difficult to make, for example, cut-away berries.

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Sandwich with black caviar and cheese

Operating procedure:

From a layer of dark brown clay we form a slice of bread. Using a toothpick we give it a relief structure. We form a lettuce leaf from the green layer. In 3-4 places we pinch its edges with our fingers, slightly crumple the leaf, giving it a waviness. Place the salad on the prepared slice.
From the yellow layer, cut out a rectangle of cheese about 3 mm thick. We make holes in the cheese with a knife or special molds. We form half an egg from pieces of white and yellow clay and place it along with the cheese on the bread. Next, let the sandwich bake. When it has cooled, spread the middle of the lettuce leaf with transparent glue and sprinkle a small amount of black beads on it, which plays the role of caviar. The delicious sandwich is ready!

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Pizza for dolls

Little children are delighted with pizza. How happy they will be when they are asked to make a juicy, fluffy pizza for the dolls with their own hands! For a toy pizza, you need to stock up on orange, white, red, green and black flowers, as well as a knife for cutting.

To create this food for dolls you need:

Roll the orange ball into a flat cake. This is the base of the pizza.
If desired, add low sides made of orange plasticine to the pizza.
Make small flat cakes from red balls, decorate them with white balls, symbolizing the inclusions of fat in the sausage. Regular red cakes without white inclusions are tomatoes.
Roll small long sausages from the green color, similar to pieces of green pepper.
Roll small balls from black plasticine that look like olives.
Decorate the dough with all the ingredients. The toy food preparation process is complete!

VIDEO RECIPES OF THE MOST MINIATURE FOOD

Recipes according to which children “cook” mini-meals in a toy dish are of little interest to anyone, perhaps only their parents. The case is different if recipes for miniature dishes are presented on the YouTube channel in the form of attractive animated videos, as 24-year-old Californian Jay Baron does. In them, he demonstrates the masterly preparation of tiny, but truly edible dishes. His art is international, universally understandable and attracts the attention of people from all over the world: in just a year, Baron gained about half a million subscribers.

When Jay Baron decided to become a blogger on a YouTube channel, for some time he could not decide on a topic. The decision came to him when, rummaging in the pantry, he came across a souvenir - an antique cast iron mini-stove left over from his grandfather. This gave him the idea to create a cooking show in which he would cook mini meals. Having acquired the appropriate miniature dishes and the same Lilliputian kitchen equipment (half of which he made with his own hands), Jay began making videos with recipes for various popular dishes presented in miniature form. The first video recipe called “ Mini Spaghetti !” he published in March 2021. As a result, the video received more than 700 thousand views on FB and YT.

Agree, the process of preparing miniature food is striking in its realism, and tiny products and kitchen utensils give it a cheerful, slightly fairy-tale touch. Absolutely everyone likes the funny form of videos. Children enjoy watching how water boils on a mini-stove in a tiny saucepan, and how something is fried in a tiny frying pan, and adults admire the complete correspondence of the prepared mini-food with its real recipes in the “real world”. That's why Jay Baron's videos are very popular. For example, recipes for miniature dishes “Eggs and Bacon” and “Pie” have several million views.

MINI BACON & EGGS

By the way, the author of funny short films does not consider them works of art. “I consider myself a storyteller,” says Baron. I just tell people interesting stories, I try to give them pleasure with these videos...” And it seems that he succeeds quite well. Although, apart from ten years of experience as an artist and a couple of unfinished courses, the young man has no special education in this field.

MINI CAKE

Gradually, Jay collected a whole series of colorfully edited videos where he prepares mini-foods according to recipes from different countries of the world. True, in his case, it would be more correct to say microcosm. And this is why the process of preparing familiar dishes looks so surprising and fascinating. Moreover, regardless of the complexity - be it a regular omelette, lasagna or apple pie.

MINI Omelette

MINI LASAGNA

MINI APPLE PIE

Video recipes for miniature versions of dishes from around the world have become the basis of the “Walking With Giants” online resource. But its young author admits:

I created the Walking with Giants channel to attract people, to entertain them, but it should be a springboard into larger projects that I want to create on the channel in the future. Walking With Giants won't be showing mini food forever. I have much bigger plans for him."

By creating mini food video graphics like this, Jay is certainly not the pioneer of this “kawaii” style. (Kawaii (可愛い) means charming, cute, adorable in Japanese). The style originated in the 70s in Japan and became part of Japanese pop culture. It affected the appearance of toys, clothes, food and even behavior. Elements of kawaii can be found anywhere among the Japanese - in government publications, public service announcements, in institutions, shops, and in transport. But this seemingly infantile aesthetic attracts the Western, pragmatic viewer. For them, this is an element of a show and a fairy tale at the same time. This is an opportunity to return to the world of childhood for a minute or two. And Jay gives his audience this opportunity - the mini-food recipes on his videos are more like everyone’s favorite animation. In conclusion, please note that the videos are shown accompanied by stylish soundtracks from such popular music artists and groups as ProleteR, Mr. Woox, Jesse James, Floppy Circus, etc.

Donuts for dolls

Another delicious food that you can make for dolls is donuts. For the base of the donuts you will need orange or beige, and for decoration - white, brown and pink. You can use beads for sprinkling.

To make donuts for dolls you need:

Roll beige or orange balls. Flatten them on both sides. This is the base of the donut.
The donut can be left closed, or you can use a cocktail straw to make a hole in the center. You can use any round object to press a hole.
Make glaze from brown, white or pink cake. The frosting is a thin cake, about 1-2mm thick, decorated with drizzled chocolate or rainbow sprinkles. The edges of the glaze should be made wavy, so it will resemble the real thing.
Decorate the donuts as desired: with beads, rhinestones, seed beads or rainbow sprinkles. Another fun option is to sprinkle the donuts with a little real powdered sugar or sugar.

These donuts will be a wonderful treat for a tea party for dolls.