DIY Tiny Matzah
I’ve always enjoyed this sort of thing. Making miniatures, I mean, not Judaising Barbie, that’s just a side-effect. These days, now I have a scanner and a super-duper colour printer, it’s so easy…back in the days of dot-matrix printers, you had to find little images in magazines and flyers and so on, and there was always a certain sense of glee when you found something you could turn into a miniature. Now, I want to make a box of matzah, I can just scan a box of matzah…
if you want to make your own, here’s how…
Anyway, this is Passover Barbie. She eats Streit’s matzah, and not just because it’s pink.
To make your own box of Barbie matzah you will need:
- corrugated cardboard
- ruler
- scissors
- glue
- tape
- pencil
- this scan of a box of matzah (print it at 300dpi)
Measure, mark, and cut four pieces of corrugated cardboard 30mm*27mm. Tape them together in a bundle. These are your matzot (hahaha, insert matzah/cardboard joke of choice here).
Print and cut out the scanned wrapper. You can see where the folds would be in real life - fold along those. Pre-folding it makes wrapping the cardboard matzah in its wrapper much easier; it is a bit fiddly. Wrap it up; glue the wrapper into place as you go, or you can tape it if you’re careful to tape the whole box evenly all over (if you don’t, it just looks a bit silly). The 27mm is the vertical dimension, but you probably figured that out already.
I don’t want to take commissions for these…I appreciate that not everyone has hands that can do fiddlies, but as fiddlies go it’s quite an easy one, so there are lots of people out there who can do it, and chances are you know one of them.
