Wild Adipose sneaking through my garden
I hardly watch television these days but I do sit down with MiniMe every Saturday evening to watch Doctor Who. I used to watch the show when I was the same age as MiniMe and it’s fun to see him hiding behind a cushion or the sofa during the more scary moments just like I used to whenever the Daleks or another suitably rubber faced monster appear.
Mini-Me has picked out a fortnightly Doctor Who magazine as his ‘newspaper’ pick when we go grocery shopping and in a recent edition there were instructions on how to create your own Adipose utilising a white sock, some rice, and other assorted bits & pieces. It was fun to make and looks suitably cute as it sneaks across our garden.
This is how me and the MiniMe made our sock Adipose…
Items Needed
1 x white sock (I bought a cheap pack of large adult white socks, size 9-12 so we could make a few Adipose)
1 x sheet of white felt for the arms and feet (it doesn’t have to be a sheet but we made a few Adipose so used it all. We bought all our felt from our local Hobbycraft store)
1 x sheet of black felt for the mouth ( as above)
2 x black buttons for the eyes
1 x craft / PVA glue
1 x scissors
1 x bag of rice (we bought 2 bags of cheap supermarket rice to make multiple Adipose)
1 x bag of cotton wool (well… we didn’t actually use this but it was in the instructions we followed. If you read on then you will see that problems we had with the cotton wool)
Wild Adipose about to attack
So to make your very own sock Adipose you need to fill a white sock with rice until it reaches about an inch below the heal of the sock – it’s not an exact science so don’t worry about measuring this perfectly. We then used our scissors to cut the top of the sock off, just below the heal line. Then using the craft glue we folded the sock over the top and glued it into place so that the rice is contained in the sock. We now had our basic Adipose body.
Next we made the arms and legs by drawing each respective shape on the white felt and we had to draw then cut out 2 pieces for each arm and again 2 pieces for each leg. So to make 1 arm you need 2 arm shapes and the same for each leg – giving you a requirement of 4 arm pieces and 4 leg pieces per Adipose. The instructions we followed told us to put a bud of cotton wool on top of an arm piece then glue another matching arm piece on top. However, we found that craft glue does not work on felt so did not bother with the cotton wool. Instead I cut some more arm and leg shapes out of the top of the sock that was earlier cut off and used this as the padding for each arm and leg.
Finally we used the glue to stick the arms and legs onto the Adipose body then glued 2 black buttons on for the eyes and the same for the mouth after cutting the shape from the black felt.
You probably need less black felt than white felt as the black felt is only needed for the mouth but a lot of white felt is needed for the arms and legs.