Barbie Wreath

Step 2 Plan ahead

While spending hours super gluing action figures together for my first toy wreath, i began plans for making a Barbie wreath. One obstacle to making a Barbie wreath is the difficulty in obtaining inexpensive Barbies. Well, fortunately for me, a friend was on the lookout a when they spotted bulk Barbies at just $1 each. They picked out a dozen or so and bought them for me and called to let me know about the find. Well, i went and bought the rest of them. The problem is that there was one Ken in the bunch. I didn't want my wreath to have any man-dolls in it so he became a dog toy.

Barbie bodies are quite a bit longer than the normal action figure so layout of the Barbies and the radius of the wreath had to be different than i had done in my previous project. Luckily, i have a habit of squirreling away even the least necessary parts and pieces because they might be useful someday. I had leftover hardware from rope spools and a few pieces of perforated metal that i was able to reshape into a large hoop.