Besides the characters, I also had to make some of the props for the scene. A suitably sized tea set was easily available, but other things ...

The next character was the chicken. She was relatively simple, though I wish I'd given her a more exaggerated, cartoony shape with a lon...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I knew that I'd need characters for the accompanying window display. While some of them would later b...

The robot was a pleasure to make, maybe because there was no paper mache involved. It was also really simple. Here are the basic raw materia...

Before moving on I thought I'd take a small amount of space to discuss the books in this piece. Since the display id for the children...

The crocodile was pretty complex, especially his frame construction, but ended up being one of the easiest to complete. It also turned out t...

Like the bear, the rabbit's frame was built of a cardboard silhouette (in this case a profile view) built up with newspapers, and cardb...

This monkey was not part of the original concept, but the two alcoves also had beams that ran front to back, as well as the ones making up t...

I worked on a few more elements simultaneously after the bear. The ant was completed first. Again, documentation of its creation was lost, b...

The bear was the next character I tackled, because it was next in line in the right to left order of the display, and because it was to be t...

Back to the tree... As you can see, the tree has been primed and painted. All the leaf stems are in place and I've begun to paint those ...