fishead19690
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Here is something I was working on before my dad passed away and it got put on hold.
These are some cheap and easy grass clumps that can be made as large or small as you like.
The material to make these are very cheap and for a small investment you can make a ton of them.
The grass itself is made from a decrorative broom I picked up at Michaels for $0.69 and it goes a long way so one should be plenty. I,ve also found these brooms at A.C. moore also and I,m sure many other craft stores carry these also.
You,ll also need foam and some kind of file rasp or wire brush to shape it.
Some cheap earth color or green acrlic paint and some glue and flocking grass will also be needed.
I found some cool dirt looking ground cover in the pet store that is very cheap that is used for lizard and snake bedding. I think its put out by a company called Eco Earth or somethink like that. You can also just use regular flocking grass or static grass like the railroad scenic stuff. I mixed both on mine.
The piant is just in case the flocking falls off, you won,t see pink or blue foam underneath.
Green or white floral foam can also be used. The green floral foam is much easier to get the grass into but it also breaks easy also so you might be better off with the pink or blue foam because its more durable.
here are some pictures so you can see how its all done.
You pretty much just cut the stuff up in small clumps and press it into the the foam and just keep repeating this till you get the desired size clump you want. Then just trim down any high spots and bend over the grass to fill it out a bit and give it a fuller look so it dosn,t look like a bad hair inplant slap on some glue and flock the base.
Forgot to metion that you should paint the foam base first! I just used a piece of unpainted green floral foam in the photo because I didn,t want to wait for the paint to dry.
This can also be done with small twiggs and other types of dried flowers also like the dried flowers in the photo. Just stick them right into the foam.
You can add a bit of glue also but if you get them into the foam far enough you won,t even need any glue but, the,ll stay in place much better with a touch of glue!
These are some cheap and easy grass clumps that can be made as large or small as you like.
The material to make these are very cheap and for a small investment you can make a ton of them.
The grass itself is made from a decrorative broom I picked up at Michaels for $0.69 and it goes a long way so one should be plenty. I,ve also found these brooms at A.C. moore also and I,m sure many other craft stores carry these also.
You,ll also need foam and some kind of file rasp or wire brush to shape it.
Some cheap earth color or green acrlic paint and some glue and flocking grass will also be needed.
I found some cool dirt looking ground cover in the pet store that is very cheap that is used for lizard and snake bedding. I think its put out by a company called Eco Earth or somethink like that. You can also just use regular flocking grass or static grass like the railroad scenic stuff. I mixed both on mine.
The piant is just in case the flocking falls off, you won,t see pink or blue foam underneath.
Green or white floral foam can also be used. The green floral foam is much easier to get the grass into but it also breaks easy also so you might be better off with the pink or blue foam because its more durable.
here are some pictures so you can see how its all done.
You pretty much just cut the stuff up in small clumps and press it into the the foam and just keep repeating this till you get the desired size clump you want. Then just trim down any high spots and bend over the grass to fill it out a bit and give it a fuller look so it dosn,t look like a bad hair inplant slap on some glue and flock the base.
Forgot to metion that you should paint the foam base first! I just used a piece of unpainted green floral foam in the photo because I didn,t want to wait for the paint to dry.
This can also be done with small twiggs and other types of dried flowers also like the dried flowers in the photo. Just stick them right into the foam.
You can add a bit of glue also but if you get them into the foam far enough you won,t even need any glue but, the,ll stay in place much better with a touch of glue!
Mike
