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How to make glue from flour yourself

  1. Heat water. Put the water in the pot and heat it up. As soon as it starts to boil, take it off the hob for a moment.
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  2. To sift flour. Now stir in the flour quickly. It is particularly practical if you sift the flour into the pan while stirring it with a sieve.
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  3. Boil everything up. Now boil the flour with the water while stirring. The flour has to gel, that is, to gelatinize.
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  4. Let the paste cool down. Let the flour paste cool down a bit and add a tablespoon of sugar.
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  5. Tinker with paste. As soon as the paste has cooled, you can do handicrafts with the children. The children can also spread it with their hands, but a brush is more practical.
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How to make paste from starch

  1. Boil water. Bring the remaining water to a boil and remove the pan from the heat.
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  2. Mix the ingredients together. Now add the mixed starch to the water while stirring and stir everything with a whisk until all the lumps have disappeared.
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  3. Fill in the paste. Then briefly boil everything again and pour the mixture into a screw-top jar.
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Things to know about using the paste

Even if today you will hardly ever use a self-made paste to wallpaper, paste made from flour makes a lot of sense. Flour or starch pastes are guaranteed to be non-toxic. This paste is particularly suitable if you want to do handicrafts with small children.

You can glue everything made of paper and cardboard well and firmly with the flour paste. If you want to make something out of paper mache, glue made from flour is also ideal. You can color the glue in small portions with food coloring and even make non-toxic finger paints.

The flour paste also works well as wallpaper paste. The starch paste is also a good adhesive for wallpaper. Children can also use this glue as this glue is non-toxic and even edible.

You can find even more edible and non-toxic pastes here:

Gummy bear paste

Sugar glue

Curd glue

A non-toxic paste can be made very quickly from the simplest of ingredients. When filled in a screw-top jar, the adhesive lasts for about three weeks.

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