How do you make paste yourself?
For many craft ideas you need smaller amounts of paste. It is not worth buying and mixing a whole packet of wallpaper paste. In addition, the necessary ingredients for homemade paste can almost always be found in the kitchen cupboard, so that you can spontaneously have a handicraft lesson with the children on the weekend.
What you need:
- 1 heaped tablespoon of starch
- 1 heaped tablespoon flour
- 1 heaped teaspoon of sugar
- 1 cup of hot water
How to make paste yourself
- Pour the flour, starch and sugar into a clean jam or pickle jar and screw the jar on. Then shake vigorously for a while so that all ingredients mix well together.
- Now add the cup of hot water and close the glass again. But be careful! The jar is hot, so it is best to wrap the closed jar in a towel and then shake it. If the paste is not yet of the right consistency, the homemade paste can be further thickened by adding starch.
- The paste is almost ready now. It just needs to cool down. Before the paste is used, it must be shaken again.
- The finished paste should now be stored in the refrigerator. So it lasts for a good 2 weeks.
- This paste can theoretically also be used for wallpapering, but it is not very recommendable because it dissolves quickly in connection with moisture. But at Handcraft it is hard to beat with children. This paste is not only super cheap, but also completely non-toxic and almost always available.
- This recipe is a basic recipe for homemade paste. It is versatile and can easily be used not only for paper mache, but also for gluing paper and cardboard.
- But there are other uses for this basic recipe. By adding more flour and food coloring, inexpensive and absolutely non-toxic finger paint can also be produced.
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