Last year after Easter, I bought a bunny and carrot silicone candy mold on clearance with the intention of making some Easter chalkware bowl fillers. These will go great with my other spring primitive decor that I put out each year.
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Make the Chalkware Bowl Fillers:
To make the chalkware bunnies and carrots, I used Plaster of Paris. You can find Plaster of Paris in big box craft stores or in home improvement stores.
Follow the instructions on the plaster of paris to create a pourable mixture and spoon it into the silicone candy mold. Tap the edges of the mold to get out any air bubbles in the mixture.
After the mixture is completely dry, you can pop the bowl fillers right out of the mold.
Scrape off any excess plaster from the edges and smooth out the backs.
Paint the Chalkware Bowl Fillers:
Now the chalkware is ready to paint! I painted the carrots with an orange paint and the carrot tops with Folk Art fresh foilage craft paint.
I painted the bunnies first with brown, but didn’t like the way they looked so I painted them with Folk Art vintage white craft paint.
I was hoping to sand a little bit of the cream paint off the bunnies to get down to the brown layer, but instead, I got down to the chalk level. So I wouldn’t recommend doing that to try to get an aged look. However, the two bunnies that I sanded ended up with a different look after adding the antiquing medium than the one I didn’t sand.
After the painting and sanding, I painted some watered down folk art cocoa bean antiquing medium onto the bowl fillers and then wiped it back off.
You could finish with a clear spray varnish if desired.
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