Alice in Wonderland Mushroom Props

     Here's another piece of my Alice in Halloweenland project.  You could make props for a typical Alice in Wonderland event by using red paint instead of black.

Materials:

*Air dry clay (I accidentally used oven baked and it still worked, but I would recommend oven baked so you don't have to worry about potentially setting the paper or cardboard on fire)
*Thin cardboard tube
*Scrap paper or newspaper
*Black paint (or red if you're going for the classic Wonderland mushrooms)
*White paint
*Paintbrush

Directions:

*Cover the outside of the cardboard tube with clay.

*Make a clay circle as large as you would like your mushroom to be and place that on top of the cardboard tube.

*Merge the clay at the top of the tube with the clay on top of the mushroom such that the whole thing comes together as one unit.

*Crumple a piece of paper and place it on top of the clay circle.

*Form a larger clay circle and drape that over the wadded up paper.

*Merge this clay with that of the other circle to form the top of the mushroom.  Set aside to dry.

*Once dry, paint the mushroom as you wish.