Using real foods for doll props

At the Whole Foods near us, there are mini-tarts and mini-cupcakes - those could be used for SD13-sized sweets. :>

 

Quail eggs to make hard boiled eggs with, and button quail eggs for smaller dolls. To get them out of the shell, soak them in white vinegar until the hard coating dissolves. Otherwise they get all wrecked.
-Pere

 

I've seen the 100-calorie packs of most snacks, like some of the Keebler cookies, and whatnot, make really good SD13 or so cookies, I've also seen them in Cheez-its and that kind of snack cracker.

I think that would look relatively in scale as long as you have the bigger dolls.

 

Sushi works wonders too as a prop:

 

Heh. This maybe lame... but you could take Chocolate chips, or mini chocolate chips and wrap them in foil to look like Hershey kisses. I just thought of it. Might look cute if you wrapped them in christmas colored foil for xmas shoots.

 

Oh, okay, what I used to do when I was little was snap the end off a cone of ice cream and scoop up a little bit of the ice cream into the tiny piece of cone and there you have it- a tiny little ice cream. I suppose you'd have to be careful as to not spill any on your doll but if you could snap some pictures in time it would look adorable

 

I'm thinking of baking some SD sized Dutch style santa cookies for this weekend's St. Nicolas celebration. Shinta will be dressed up as St. Nicolas for the occasion . He already has an SD size candy bag. Normally these cookies are the size of an adult finger tip.

 

that idea is so.... CUTE! I will definitly try that when I get my doll ^_^

 

Ayperi, they're more of a snack really, like potato chips. You can eat a lot of them. The dutch word for it would translate very poorly I think because it refers to pepper, but there isn't any pepper in it.

 

I've used real food because. I've never gone out of my way to cook something specifially for a shoot, I usually use left overs or food that I question.

 

Mini bananas sort of work. I think I have a picture of one of my dolls holding it (not on my computer right now though) and it might have been a little big, but you could just call is a mutant banana. XD

 

Hmm...I've actually done something like this...

Everytime I made chocolate chip pancakes, there would always be a little batter and 1 chocolate chip left so I would scoop it up and cook it...then take pics of Pandora w/ it.

I also recently found snack sized marshmellows(Like snack packs) that are the perfect size for her

 

I am making latkes for Hanukkah tomorrow, and I am planning to try making a few mini ones for Miriam. Not that I have a mini plate or anything to put them on... hm.

 

There are a lot of miniature sized candies out there, nowadays. c: Like leetle butter cups and leetle hershey's bars. That would be suitable for a doll's size.

 

Another idea is to take those polymer clay cutters in the different shapes, and use real cookie dough rolled out- you could probably use that stuff in the roll at the grocery store in sugar cookie- roll it out thinner, use the mini cutters, and make mini sugar cookies, then ice them.

I have made a large amount of food, and experimented with SD-sized foods but can't for some reason settle on a 'plate' size- I think it is because of the slimness of the SD's and MSD's that some plates that would be correct scale look like platters next to them. also, some of the foods I have made w/ clay seem a little large, such as the cakes.

You might also try the appetizer or gourmet section- they have those little round cheeses in the red wrapping in a net bag- that would make a good wheel of cheese or a cheese ball. Also, those party rye bread slices could be cut up and you could make a mini sandwich- or leave them their original size for 70 cm and larger.

 

hehe this reminds me of a time I went to mitsuwa with a friend. we all had our dolls but we were eating. she felt so bad that we were ignoring the dolls to stuff our faces that she broke off a piece of bread and had her doll pretend to feed his little sister the bread.

Does this count? hehe

 

I posted this in the Little Fee thread, but they also make 100-Calorie packs of gummi bears, and the gummi bears are about half the size of human scale gummis. Sorry for the flash, but here's a picture to show you the scale.



Also, I don't know how well known these are outside of the the USA, or even the south of the USA, but Tiny Size Chiclets are perfect for doll sized gum. I used to give my Barbies a piece when I was little.

 

I had fun with this when I did a shot of the Hatter's tea party. I used petit four cases to make cupcakes in, Alice has a mini chocolate digestive on "her" saucer (I also had some mini chocolate chip cookies that were perfectly to scale, but had no more room on the table), the iced gems were a bit of a cheat, and the birthday cake was one of those supermarket individual birthday cakes (how sad is that?) that was re-iced. I also used caster sugar in the sugar bowl and was going to make cucumber sandwiches out of pressed, thin-sliced bread and sliced gherkins, only I couldn't be bothered in the end.

 

lol wow this has now given me a ton of idea.