These dolls are made up of a body, a head, legs, and arms. The body and the legs are made of wood, the head is a Styrofoam ball and the arms are made of wire. The clothes are a babies size 1, a pair of children’s shoes, a cap or hat of your choice generally a baseball cap and a pair of baby’s cotton mittens. The body is well padded with wadding and glued together with craft glue or hot glue from a craft store.

The first thing is to assemble the body. It is made up of 2 pieces of wood, the body and the legs. The wire is inserted into a hole near the top of the body to form the arms. The next step is to wrap the wadding around the legs and the body to form the padding and then glued in place. Be generous with your padding. You can make it as thick or as thin as you like depending on the size of the clothing. Once the body and legs have been padded you also need to pad the arms. Bend the wire to the size you require and then wrap the padding around the wire all the way from the loop at the bottom to the top of the shoulder.

Ok the next step is to attach the head, cover the padding and dress the Sooky Doll. To attach the head you need to hammer a large thick nail into the top of the body. Make sure you place the nail in the center. Cover the nail with lots of glue and firmly place the foam ball on the nail and push the head into place. Now you need to cover the padding with stockings or hosiery. Cover the body, legs and arms of the sooky doll with the stockings, make sure to stretch firmly and glue into place.

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