"📢 Contest || Unlock Your Creativity || Week - 05".

Greetings to you all members of this beautiful community. How are you today and your family? I believe you are all fine as I am. I am here today to unleash the potential in me by crafting a ballet dancer using a waste carton and groundnut peels. I do believe that you will find this article interesting. I appreciate the moderator and the organiser of this contest @zisha-hafiz. I pray for more wisdom in your life. Here is my presentation ma'am.

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Materials For Construction

  • waste Carton
  • Groundnut peels
  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Acrylic colour
  • Gel nail polish
  • Scissors
  • Paper cutter
  • Evostik Gum
  • Brush
  • Iron
  • Correction pen
  • Compass

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Step 1
I began by drawing the ballet dancer. I drew her head, the neck, her two hands and her body down to her waist.
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Step 2
Here, I drew her skirt and her two legs one on the ground and the other above the ground level.

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Step 3
In step 3, I used my scissors and paper cutter to neatly cut out the ballet dancer.

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Step 4
I peeled groundnuts and used their Peeles to form the skirt of the ballet dancer. After peeling the groundnuts, I applied the Evostik gum exactly to the position of the skirt, and I started applying the groundnut peels one after another, arranging it in such a way that the groundnut peels now represented the skirt.

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Step 5
I coloured the entire construction black using black Acrylic colour. The groundnut skirt, the legs and other part of the body.

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Step 6
Here, I used gel nail polish to add beauty to the groundnut skirt. I first polished the lower part of the skirt with a silver gel nail polish and then, I used a light brown colour to polish the upper part of the skirt.

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Step 7
I lightly added a white colour to the edges of the ballet dancer's body. Her hands, legs, neck and her head. I also design the ballet dancer's body hug shirt using the white colour.

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Step 8
I constructed the stand of the craft. I used a compass to construct two circles of equal sizes on a carton and cut them out with scissors. I also measure a carton I inch wide and use it to gum the two circles together. Lastly, at this step, I coloured the entire stand (base) black and had a small white circle at the centre.

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Step 9
I cut a small iron to be 6 inches long and gummed it at the centre of the circle base constructed in step 8. I gummed the constructed ballet dancer on the iron using Evostik gum and masking tape.

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Step 10
I gummed a shining bias around the circle base, and I made some dots with a correction pen above and below the shining bias. Finally, I added deep red colour Gel nail polish to the lower part of the skirt

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Selfie

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Conclusion
This is my creative construction for the week. I appreciate your presence in my blog and your support of this article. I once again appreciate @zisha-hafiz for organising this contest and granting us the opportunity to explore. Lastly, I want to invite @okere-blessing, @ahp93, @yakspeace and @uzma4882 to also participate in the contest.

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Regard