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| Even you get crafted sometimes, Jabba! |
You will need:
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/4 cup water
- Large bowl
- Mixing spoon
- Sharp knife
- Paint (We used green, yellow, brown, orange and black.)
How to:
- In a large bowl, mix flour, salt and water until dough forms.
- Shape dough into desired shape, making sure to flatten the bottom of sculpture so it will stand. Use knife to carve features into sculpture. If you make a mistake, just smooth dough out and redo.
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- Place on a microwave safe plate and cook at 20-30 second intervals for about 2 minutes, until dough hardens. (I ended up cooking ours for about 3 minutes, maybe a bit more. Since the sculpture was so much larger it took a bit more time to harden.) CAUTION: Dough gets very, very hot in microwave!! Let cool before handling.
- Once completely cool, paint sculpture to look like Jabba.
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| Jabba before being painted. |
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| A rare photo of me and Elliott crafting together! |
Jabba's Colors:
Mix yellow and a small amount of brown for Jabba's front.
Green for his back.
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| Jabba's back |
Orange and black for his eyes.
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| Close up of Jabba's face |
Thoughts:
Why the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt? Well, for one thing, you don't find too many action figures of Jabba. For another, Jabba has a relatively easy shape to work with. This is, by far, one of the crafts that I am most proud of. Not only does Jabba look freaking awesome, he gets so much play time that Han Solo would be ashamed. Cooking Jabba in the microwave flattened him quite a bit from what the original sculpture was, so keep that in mind. (I would make him a bit taller than you think he needs to be.)
Elliott's Evaluation:
I really liked painting him. I wanted him to have a smile, even though he's a bad guy. He is one of my favorite action figures. Why did Jabba capture Princess Leia? I think it's because he's mean.
