VIDEO: Tinker with paper mache
How to make a paper mache bowl
- Tear up the newspaper or other scraps of paper with your hands into small snippets. The individual pieces should not be larger than around five by five centimeters.
- Avoid waste paper from glossy illustrated posters. The paper sticks badly and the Colours are very dominant, which later becomes annoying when painting the paper mache bowl.
- Under no circumstances should you cut the waste paper. By cutting the old newspapers, sharp edges are created Handcraft Do not cover it properly with paper mache later.
- Mix some paste in a bowl according to the instructions on the paste package.
- Blow up the balloon as far as the diameter of the bowl should later have. Knot the balloon well.
- Place the balloon in an empty bucket with the knotted part facing down.
- Brush the balloon with a little paste and cover the balloon with the paper scraps as far as you want your paper mache bowl to be.
- Every now and then, spread paste on the paper and cover the balloon with the scraps of paper close together.
- When the paper mache mass on the balloon is about an inch thick, then the first part of your crafting is done. Brush the paste again with paste and rub everything off as smoothly as possible.
- Now turn a strip of cardboard into a circle and attach it with a few scraps of paper and some paste to the place where your paper mache bowl will later lie on. With such a stabilization, your tinkering will be stable later.
- Let the mass dry for at least twenty-four hours.
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Here's how to finish the paper mache bowl
- Take the balloon out of the bucket and pierce it. Remove the balloon from the paper mache bowl.
- Now paint the paper mache bowl from below. Here it is sufficient to choose a plain color that later matches the overall appearance of the bowl.
- Let the paint dry well and apply a second coat of paint if necessary.
- When these are dry, you can start making your own paper mache bowl. Let your imagination guide you when painting the bowl.
- Then protect your handicraft from moisture and cover your paper mache bowl with clear varnish.
Instead of using the cardboard strip as a stand for your bowl, you can cut off a piece from an empty shipping tube and glue it under the bowl.
