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Topic: fake lettuce

Posted By: DramaMamaStill
Subject: fake lettuce
Date Posted: 9/16/08 at 11:26am

I need to make a large fake olive salad for a play and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for making large fake leaf lettuce.

thanks in advance you guys are always so helpful

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Posted By: chel
Date Posted: 9/28/08 at 7:36pm

Am I too late to answer?

We have a fake salad in our show and the leaves are simply taken from a plastic house plant from another show; cut into smaller sizes. My ladies are adding sculpy veggies to it as they speak. This works if the audience isn't too close to examine it.

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chel

www.windhamtheaterguild.org

Posted By: DramaMamaStill
Date Posted: 9/28/08 at 7:54pm

Not too late at all. I always think out the weird things I need for a show well in advance. We have not even had auditions yet :). That is a great idea. I am the collector of disposed of fake foliage around here so I would bet I already have some thing that might work.

thanks for the help

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Life is Mysterious don't take it too serious

Posted By: chel
Date Posted: 10/07/08 at 12:09am

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.

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chel

www.windhamtheaterguild.org

Posted By: Angela B
Date Posted: 12/05/08 at 3:02pm

I took coffee filters and painted them. Then tore them to look like iceberg lettuce...

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Angela Bynum
Pennywise Prop Rentals

Posted By: vickifrank
Date Posted: 12/05/08 at 4:32pm

If you want the stuffer variety of large lettuce leaf, you can starch cheesecloth then paint green. (Similar to the way crafty people make little ghosts for table decorations). You probably could starch tissue paper cut into large sizes.

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Posted By: spikesgirl
Date Posted: 12/06/08 at 7:40am

And if you don't have cheesecloth, I used muslin with great success. Cut it to shape, dip it in some dutch and shape it over a balloon. Then simply paint. I had to make a mess of it to dress a roasted pig and you couldn't tell this from the fake silk stuff we had in the prop room.

Charlie

Posted By: DramaMamaStill
Date Posted: 12/08/08 at 11:33am

Wow thanks for all the great ideas... I did find some silk foliage very cheap and defoliated it (by the way the leftover stems are great beach grass... very sparse looking) I like the other ideas though too and may incorporate them as well to make it a nice big interesting salad

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Life is Mysterious don't take it too serious