Props

I have been thinking about props. I thought I might be able to buy some of the props from ebay or etsy but i've been having trouble finding things that would be the right size. I was hoping to find the spinning wheel in particular as it would be most difficult to make but I could only find one that would be bigger than my characters and the others were all too small. I have asked elliot to make my spinning wheel out of wood. We bought some wooden curtain rings that we thought would be the right size for the wheel and some lollypop sticks and scraps. Also maybe a stool for Rumpelstiltskin to sit on while he's spinning.

I did manage to find some gold wire which I think will work well for coils of gold after Rumpelstiltskin spins the straw. I had to pad out the reels of gold with gold coloured plasticine as there wasn't enough gold wire to look like all of the straw was spun. I also bought a wooden brush head with bristles that I think will work well for straw. It's should be thin enough and the right texture to look like straw in the scale of the set and it's already the right colour so I plan to cut chunks of the bristles off and tie them into bundles with thread. 

Another prop I had to consider was the camp fire. I bought some little LED tealights that should fit inside the fire to give a little flickery glow. I was thinking we could drill a couple of holes underneath the campfire in the set and attach the lights underneath the set. This would mean the light would start at the bottom of the fire instead of half way up which would look better. 

I also need a baby, so I made a little babies head in plasticine, padded out the body with sponge and bundled it up in cloth. Hopefully the head wont be too visible, it just needed to look like there was a child inside the cloth. 

The only other props I need are two crowns, one for the king and one for the girl when she becomes queen. I was thinking of just making them out of air drying clay and painting them, then attaching some of the white trim that I will use for the kings cloak to the rim of each crown.