How to make papier-mache

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• air balloon;

• small cup;

• A newspaper torn in strips approximately 2.5-5 cm wide and 15 cm long;

• paste made from papier-mâché or liquid starch;

• Scotch tape;

• twine or yarn;

• paint or thin wrapping paper or paper with a corrugated surface;

• scissors;

• Adhesive;

• cardboard tube from paper towels( optional);

• large paper or plastic cup( optional).

If you use paste, not liquid starch, first do it.

PASTE

• 4 cups of water( 2 cold, 2 hot);

• 0.5 cups of flour;

• 2 tablespoons of sugar.

1. Bring to the boil 2 cups of water on the stove.

2. Pour 2 cups of cold water into the flour and mix until smooth, without lumps. Add the resulting mass to boiled water.

3. Bring the mixture back to the boil again. Remove from heat and mix with sugar.

4. After cooling, the mixture is ready for use.(The paste can be stored in the refrigerator, but it spoils very quickly, so you need to cook as much as necessary for this case.)

PIN

1. Blow the balloon. Put it on the cup so it does not roll off.

2. Dip the newspaper stripes one at a time into the paste. Remove excess paste from the strip, passing it between two fingers.

3. Fully coat the balloon with strips, leaving a free area around the assembly. For this place you will take the ball. Let it dry.

4. Stick a piece of twine around the ball to hang the product. Arrange the string so that the ball hangs upwards with the end on which the knot is.

5. Lay the second layer of the newspaper over the strips in the opposite direction to the first one. Let it dry.

6. Lay the third layer and again in a different direction. Let it dry properly.

7. Pierce the ball with a pin and remove it.

8. You can paint the product or decorate by cutting and pasting thin or corrugated paper onto it. On thin paper

is provided a flat pattern;strips of corrugated paper, pasted with small loops or carved like strips of grass and laid in layers, create a more convex, three-dimensional pattern.

9. When inside dries, fill the caramel. On top of the hole you can paste a piece of thin paper.

OPTIONS

With optional accessories and efforts, you can make a pig, balloon or dinosaur eggs. This can be done only after the second layer has dried and a third layer of papier-mache is applied.

Cut the tube from the paper towels into 2.5 cm pieces and secure with a sticky tape in the places where the legs and snout of the pig are located( Fig.).

* Cut the paper cup in half. Glue the upper part to the bottom of the balloon( Fig.).

After the third coat dries, glue the brush to clean the tubes where the tail should be at the pig, and glue the bottom of the cup with a rope as the basket of the balloon.

* First, take small balls and decorate them to make colorful dinosaur eggs.